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2006 Istvan Szepsy Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos (500 ml)
($250) (a blend of furmint, hárslevelû and yellow muscat): Orange-gold color. Wild aromas of dried apricot, pineapple, quince, white raisin, honeycomb and toffee, lifted by a floral topnote. Extremely glyceral and thick but with outstanding racy acidity giving the wine cut and intensifying its flavors of bitter orange, dried apricot, quince, toffee, smoke and earth. This has a texture like liquid velvet but shows no heaviness. The slowly building, endless finish features great palate-cleansing minerality. I found it hard to scrape this stuff off my teeth. Should go on for decades. Szepsy told me that noble rot has been hard to come by in recent years: 2005 through 2008 were good years for aszú wines but not 2009 through 2012, which were more conducive to making szamorodni. Previous good botrytis years, according to Szepsy, were 2003, 2001, 2000 and 1999.
96(+?)
2007 Zoltan Demeter Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos (500 ml)
95(+?)
2007 Bott Tokaj Aszu 6 Puttonyos 95
2008 Barta Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos 95
2006 Kiralyudvar Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos (500 ml) 95(+?)
2005 Disznoko Eszencia 94
1999 Disznoko Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos (500 ml) 94(+?)?
2008 Tokaj Nobilis Tokaji Aszu 5 Puttonyos 94
2003 Tokaj Oremus Tokaji Eszencia 94
2010 Balassa Zeta Mezes-Maly 94
2008 Bott Tokaj Aszu 6 Puttonyos 94(+?)?
2009 Szent Tamas Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos 94
2011 Szent Tamas Szent Tamas 3909 94
2009 Szarka Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos 94
2011 Bott Szamorodni 94
2006 Pendits Aszu Essencia 94
2005 Disznoko Kapi Vineyard Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos 93
2009 Zoltan Demeter Cuvee Eszter Late Harvest 93
2008 Zoltan Demeter Cuvee Eszter Late Harvest 93(+?)
2007 Istvan Szepsy Szent Tamas Furmint 93
2008 Istvan Szepsy Szamorodni 93(+?)
2005 Kiralyudvar Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos Lapis (500 ml)93
2006 Dobogo Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos 93
2009 Balassa Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos 93
2011 Barta Furmint Oreg Kiraly Dulo 93
2003 Sauska Tokaji Aszu Essencia 93
2012 Sauska Furmint Medve 93
2008 Royal Tokaji Wine Co. Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos Szt. Tamas (500 ml) 93
2007 Kiralyudvar Essencia Lapis 93-95
2007 Tokaj Nobilis Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos 92
2005 Samuel Tinon Sweet Szamorodni 92
2012 Kiralyudvar Cuvee Patricia Noble Late Harvest 92-93
2011 Szent Tamas Szent Tamas Furmint Dry 92+
2011 Szent Tamas Percze Furmint Dry 92
