On Nov 21, 9:22*pm, DaleW > wrote:
> thanks for information. This actually lists alcohol as 4.5%, not 7. 565 g/l is plenty sweet for me,
> Wine hasn't budged in 2 days.

I looked at the back label again and it said 7% alcohol. It is a clear
plastic sticker label that might have been applied in the US. Perhaps
it is a different batch or perhaps someone made a mistake. One of the
richest essencias from 2000 is supposed to have only 2% alcohol, but a
bottle of it that came via the UK has 0 % alcohol listed. Who knows.
Since you don't seem to have a sweet tooth, you might like the aszu
essencia with less residual sugar and well over 10% alcohol better.
Most of the Royal Tokay essencias have been running about 2% alcohol.
Also the Hungarian word for essencia is translated into English in at
least 3 different ways with various combinations of s and z. Your wine
may remain about the same for many days, weeks, or even months as
reported by a few who have tasted old top essencias. But not knowing
how this new style of essencia is made, I would not count on this.

Many years ago an importer of fine German wines told me that one
company put the wrong labels on a few cases of an auslese they sent
him. To correct the situation, they sent him a batch of correct labels
to apply. Unfortunately some of the wine had been sold by retail
stores. The mistake was not a bad one, since the actual wine in the
bottle was an auslese of the same year from at least as good a
vineyard.