Portuguese varieties – Touriga National

and good botrytisation in the autumn we harvested concentrated

to purple plums

While this is tasty right now

2016 Royal Tokaj, Essencia Essencia Portuguese varieties – Touriga NationalEssencia is the worlds most concentrated essence of its ripest grapes, it is the liquid gold that very slowly oozes from a pile of asz grapes raisined by botrytis and climatic conditions. In 2016 we had a mild and dry winter with no serious frosts. This was followed by a long spring, with lovely, warm days but cool, almost chilly nights. The flowering season was unusually long resulting in uneven fruit set in many vineyards and across all grape