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Sweet sweet
Tokaji aszú Eszencia Imperium is produced from botrytis-affected grapes blended with dry wine. The harvest is gathered from the estate's finest vineyards. After 14 days of maceration, the wine was aged for 22 months in French oak barrels. Incredibly sweet, yet beautifully balanced by its acidity, the wine displays a complex character of apricot and Seville orange marmalade fruit, intertwined with notes of spice and gingerbread. With an impressive 252 grams of sugar per litre, it is no surprise that the wine is sweet and exceptionally rich, yet the freshness provided by its persistent acidity keeps the wine in perfect balance.
Residual sugar 252g/l.
Serve at 8 °C with dark chocolate desserts, blue or more mature cheeses, and duck liver (foie gras).
Rich and mouthcoating, with apricot, orange and vanilla cream aromas and flavors. The underlying acidity keeps this lively and stretches the flavors out on the long finish. There's a nice salty tang on the aftertaste. Drink now through 2025. 600 cases made, 70 cases imported.
Chateau Dereszla is steeped in rich history when the first mention of the name occurred in 1406 as a storage cellar of wines collected for tax levies for the then king of Hungary. The estate changed hands for many centuries as it moved from Hungarian to Turkish to Austrian rulers until 1945. After WW II, it became part of a Hungarian Cooperative. At the turn of the century, in 2000, the estate was purchased by the French d’Aulan family who quickly modernized and streamlined production to create world-renowned wines. Under this French ownership, the Chateau achieved international recognition and became renowned for their Tokaji Aszu wines. Modernization continued the evolution of the estate and it reached an important milestone when, in 2016, it became once again under Hungarian ownership.
