Chateau Pajzos, Esszencia

Interesting facts

"The essence (Esszencia)" is a legendary, luxury wine, during the reign of Catherine the great, has been called "liquid gold". Wine is the rarest and the sweetest in the world. Since 1947 in the current three times the harvest in quality and quantity to meet the requirements for the production of "Esszencia", because to craft it you need berries extra class in large quantities. To create a bottle "Esszencia" 100 ml will require a yield per hectare, and for the production of a liter of wine — 3-4 tons of grapes, which corresponds to the yield harvested from 10 hectares. One of these good years were 1993. The wine expert "Wine Spectator" named the wine of the vintage 1993 "one of the best dessert wines in the world... it's like one of the wonderful gems that makes you swoon with delight" and awarded the highest rating of 100 points. Another famous wine critic Robert Parker called the wine "perfect, almost perfect."Interesting technology of wine production "Esszencia". In contrast to the "Aszu", where the berries added to wine, "Esszencia" is the result of natural leakage of juice from the berries "Aszu" — botrytised zaizyumlennogo grapes, that is, dried grapes, processed noble Botrytis. The harvest is placed in a huge, up to three tons, wooden vats, where, under the pressure of its own weight, from the bottom layer of berries start to ooze a very sweet juice, the consistency and tastes like liquid honey. After 4-5 years of fermentation, the light is born the divine nectar with natural residual sugar concentration from 500 to 700 g per liter.

Tasting Characteristics

The wine has deep amber color.
Bright, rich, heady aroma of the wine reveals notes of citrus, honey, sweets, pineapple and other tropical fruits.
Delightful dense wine with a vibrant, lively, deep and concentrated flavors with bright notes of marmalade, hazelnut liqueur, cake, plum, caramel, tropical and citrus fruits.
How to write "Wine Spectator": "drink small amounts, in itself, to celebrate life" .