Pajzos Eszncia 2013

Storage capacity: Over 50 years. Serving temperature: serve fresh. Ideal with a cigar and digestif.

It was in 1991 that Jean-Louis Laborde, Elodie's father allowed himself to be seduced by the magic of the places of Toka located in Hungary and decided to buy the Pajzo vineyard, then that of Megyer in 2000.
As a great wine connoisseur, Jean-Louis Laborde knew that Tokaj was a mythical wine name offering unique wines.
Tokaj has long produced one of the most expensive and most sought-after wines in the world, the Tokaji Aszú, the first wine to be regularly produced from botrytized harvests, whose production methods were described in 1630 and its area delimited. in the next century, the first in the world.

The Tokaji Aszú are made by combining dry or semi-dry wines with a more or less significant proportion of botrytised grapes, measured in puttonyos from 3 to 6.
Aged at least a year and a half in barrels, they are powerful sweet wines, of great aromatic richness, at the same time dense and fresh, remarkable balance.
The Esszencia versions, exclusively produced from the drop of Aszú grain juice, are unique in the world for their phenomenal concentration.
Since the end of the Soviet era, Tokaj has gradually returned to its former prestige.
The area of Pajzos which extends over 87 hectares, benefits from a microclimate due to the Zsadány stream which borders the south of the area and therefore providing the humidity necessary for the development of botrytis.

Robert Parker, an essential critic, also rated Esszencia Pajzos, vintage 1993, as 100 out of 100.

The Megyer vineyard is 109 hectares in size and has a much cooler microclimate than the Pajzo vineyard.

The low number of hours of sunshine as well as the less present humidity make the grapes ripen later and the development of the grains of Aszú is therefore slower than in Pajzos.

Furmint, being the main grape variety in the region, Élodie has therefore decided to honor it with its collection