Rating 96
Style White Dessert Wine
Variety
Vintage 2000
Appellation
Dunántú
Hungary
ABV 11%
Price $95.00  Buy This Wine
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Reviewed 2024-01-29

Perfect For

Drinking Outside the Lines, Sipping Without Food, Special Occasion Splurges

Drink If You Like

Furmint, Moschofilero , Picolit

Lenkey Pincészet Tokaji Aszú 6 Puttonyos 2000 Review

In Hungary, the wines used to follow a scale of sweetness based on "Puttonyos," originally named for the number of baskets of noble rot grapes added to a barrel of wine. Today, the measurement is done in the more conventional unit of grams, but it's fun to come across the old terminology with aged bottles like this. These wines can age for centuries due to their high sweetness and acidity, and this one is just getting started at 23 years old. On the nose you get beautiful notes of salted caramel with some white pepper and a whisper of citrus peel. Flavors of caramelized fruit add complexity. The acidity is still lively, lifting up the richness on the palate.

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Lenkey Pincészet Tokaji Aszú 6 Puttonyos 2000
In Hungary, the wines used to follow a scale of sweetness based on "Puttonyos," originally named for the number of baskets of noble rot grapes added to a barrel of wine. Today, the measurement is done in the more conventional unit of grams, but it's fun to come across the old terminology with aged bottles like this. These wines can age for centuries due to their high sweetness and acidity, and this one is just getting started at 23 years old. On the nose you get beautiful notes of salted caramel with some white pepper and a whisper of citrus peel. Flavors of caramelized fruit add complexity. The acidity is still lively, lifting up the richness on the palate.

Reviewed On: 01-29-2024
96
POINTS
Lenkey Pincészet Tokaji Aszú 6 Puttonyos 2000
In Hungary, the wines used to follow a scale of sweetness based on "Puttonyos," originally named for the number of baskets of noble rot grapes added to a barrel of wine. Today, the measurement is done in the more conventional unit of grams, but it's fun to come across the old terminology with aged bottles like this. These wines can age for centuries due to their high sweetness and acidity, and this one is just getting started at 23 years old. On the nose you get beautiful notes of salted caramel with some white pepper and a whisper of citrus peel. Flavors of caramelized fruit add complexity. The acidity is still lively, lifting up the richness on the palate.

Reviewed On: 01-29-2024