"Topi Kuusinen" > skrev i meddelandet
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> Nils Gustaf Lindgren wrote:
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>> Hello;
>> A friend of mine expressed a wish to taste the legendary Eszenszia (any
>> Hungarophones, please excuse my no doubt impossible spelling).
>> This wine is not currently on the Swedish Systembolaget (as far as I
>> know), but, on my regular auction site idealWine.com, ten bottles were
>> offered for bidding, with a hoped for price of c eu 55 (HALF BOTTLE).
>> Now, this means that they have, possibly, been produced by the
>> Borkombinat - not one of the most wildly applauded producers of all time.
>> What could be expected from this wine? Oxidization galore? Nectar?
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>
> Hi Nils,
>
> Some time ago the Finnish Alko had the 1988 Disznökö Aszu Eszencia (SP?)
> for sale at an outrageously low price (if memory serves me right, around
> 30 euros per 0,5 litre bottle) and I bought 6 bottles.
>
> Anyway, it's about everything you could expect from a Borkombinat era
> Tokaji, just more so (MUCH more so).
>
> Very good, sweet (very), raisins and other dried fruit, with good balanced
> finish and an incredibly long aftertaste. Oxidation, yes, but really no
> more than in any of the other Tokajis of the time.
>
> If you have the chance, I recommend trying it with vanilla ice cream and
> cloudberry jam. Or just by itself; it's a really rich wine.


Excellent, Topi - I´ll make a bid for one or two bottles. Can´t afford it,
but, hey! you shouldn´t let a little thing like that stop you, what?

As for finding a good assortment in a Swedish Systembolaget, well, more
power to you for doing so.
Here, in the Southern outback, any wine of quality is picked up seconds
after it is released, with no chance of making supplementary orders. If the
Alko is worse ... <shudder>

Perhaps I am a bit spoilt. Used to be you could buy fairly old Rieslings, by
which I mean Wehlener Sonnenuhr 1982, or other really good stuff from the
80´s - really good in my idiosyncratic taste of course, but, I pays it, I
drinks it (with Xina, of course). Those days (2-3 years ago) are gone.
We are teaking bets now how long the Systembolaget will last ... trouble is,
what comes after may very well be worse ...

Cheers

Nils Gustaf