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Royal Tokaji Wine Company, Tokaji Essencia 2007

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With barely 2,000 bottles produced we are delighted to offer the newly released "utterly profound" 2007 vintage of Tokaji Essencia.  One of the greatest, most concentrated dessert wines in the World, the 2007 is fabulously thick, complex and defined with one of the longest finishes of any wine made anywhere.

The wine of Tsars, Essencia is the richest and rarest of Tokaji;  this is liquid gold that oozes very slowly from "aszu" grapes affected by noble rot.  Free-run and not pressed, the honeyed nectar is collected using only the gentle pressure of the grapes themselves. 

 

  • 2007 is only the fifth vintage since 1990 and almost every vintage receives near perfect scores.  The 2000 vintage received a flawless 100 points from Robert Parker with a drinking window of now-3000!

  

The "outstanding" 2007 also receives a perfect 100 point rating from Neal Martin.   This is a truly legendary wine, best served from a crystal spoon and one that will outlast us all!  We can only offer a small amount of this rarefied wine so please let us know ASAP if you would like to place an order

 
Wine offered In Bond (IB) excluding duty and VAT.  For enquiries please email the team
Offer subject to final confirmation. E&OE.


VintageWineGrowerConditionSizeCasesBottlesPrice 
2007 Tokaji Essencia Royal Tokaji Wine Company Individual OWC Single Half-Bottle Case 2 - 320 per Case Add to shopping cart
"The 2007 Essencia from the Royal Tokaji Wine Company, the fifth made in the modern era, is an otherworldly wine that has difficulty fitting into the definition of "wine." My Pavlovian reaction tasting it from bottle was identical to my reaction when I tasted it at the winery in September 2014. You cannot help but laugh at the sheer audacity of its syrupy pour into your glass or preferably on to a spoon. (As an aside, I strongly recommend this traditional method of consuming Essencia. I can only analogize to Asian cuisine tasting better with chopsticks. So Essencia should be consumed by spoon like a child receiving medicine and inside every one of 2,057 lacquered presentation boxes there is a free, hand-blown, crystal spoon. Do use them.)

Once you have recovered from its texture, the bouquet leaves you giddy with honey, stewed apricots, Japanese plum and Clementine - pure and hedonistic, intoxicating. The palate redefines the meaning of unctuous as it coats your taste buds in sweetness: marmalade and orange zest as before, the fresh fig note more noticeable than I remember. What is magical about this Essencia is how effortlessly, how nonchalantly the acidity counterbalances the 560 grams per liter of residual sugar and avoids any notion of being cloying. It is longer than Wagner's Ring Cycle, so forget about putting any other beverage in your mouth for the rest of the day. Then again, how could you follow this? The drinking window is not a joke. From my own experience I know that great Essencia easily last 100 years and much longer, yet at the same time, I will not begrudge you from experiencing this Essencia for yourself. You could theoretically use a Coravin to spoon feed the next five or six generations of your family, give a drop to the kids since nobody is going to get too tipsy on this at 1.65% alcohol. The 2007 Essencia is a ridiculous, extraordinary, absurd, profound and downright delicious elixir that will be indelibly printed in your vinous memory. It belongs in the pages of Tolkein or J.K. Rowling. It is truly, truly magical."
100 pts Neal Martin