2013 Grand Tokaj Tokaji Aszú 6 Puttonyos

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  5/6/2023 - Ernestas Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Made mostly from Furmint (base wine) and Harslevelu, but also drops of Zeta, Kabar, Koverszolo and Yellow Muscat, aged for 20 months in oak. 9.5% abv, 208 g/l of RS. Pronounced dense aroma of dried peaches and yellow plums, dried orange peel, honey, mango, papaya, beeswax, honeyed lemon, botrytis notes. Full body, concentrated, viscous texture with intense dried fruit, plum, peach and mango chutney flavours, nutty & waxy hints, welll balanced with integrated high acidity and fresh everlasting and velvety finish.

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  5/3/2022 - forceberry wrote: 93 Points

  Aged for 12 months in oak. 9,5% alcohol, 208 g/l residual sugar and 10 g/l acidity.
  
  Deep and concentrated burnished golden yellow color with faint greenish highlights. The nose feels still remarkably youthful with complex and very intense aromas of lemon marmalade and honey, some exotic spices, a little bit of nuttiness, a mushroomy hint of botrytis funk and a touch of beeswax. The wine is sweet, concentrated and quite viscous on the palate with a full body and intense, complex flavors of lemon marmalade and honeyed richness, some crunchy notes of Granny Smith apple, a little bit of steely minerality, light grapey nuances, a hint of beeswax and a touch of mushroomy funk. The bracing acidity keeps the wine wonderfully in balance and lends great sense of structure to it. The finish is fresh, lively and somewhat sticky with an intense, sweet aftertaste of honey, overripe grapey fruit, some pear juice, a little bit of lemon marmalade, light steely mineral notes, a hint of beeswax and a touch of savory wood spice.
  
  A wonderfully fresh, precise and intense Tokaji Aszú, really a textbook example of the style. Perhaps slightly less complex and more linear compared to the outstanding Hétszőlő Aszú 6 Puttonyos 1er Cru Nagyszőlő 2016 that was tasted at the same event, but only by a very small margin. All in all this wine shows great sense of finesse and comes across as more polished and less rustic than the classic Kereskedőház Aszús (as 2013 was the first vintage of Aszú 6 Puttonyos produced under the new Grand Tokaj name instead of Kereskedőház). Most likely this wine will call for at least a handful of years more before it really starts to lose its youthful nuances and develop more of that tertiary complexity and in all likelihood this wine will evolve and improve for several decades more. A great, classic wine. Recommended.

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  9/6/2018 - Butzemann wrote: 86 Points

  Tasted by the glass at the Budapest Wine Festival, so the tasting note is somewhat short:
  Golden colour, smells more of noble rot than the 5 Puttonyos by Grand Tokay tasted earlier, but less intensive than the Royal Tokaji 6 Puttonyos also tasted earlier, in the mouth very sweet with apricot and noble rot, good length (15 sec), not as good as the Royal Tokaji 6 Puttonyos, somewhat unbalanced

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