Here is a sweetie. Sometimes it's good to just drink a glass or three of something really, really good - and I happen to think that Tokaji is really, really good. So I opened one of my "prized" bottles simply because it was what was called for tonight.
Oremus Tokaji Ezsencia 1999 3% abv 165€/½ (and so good that I really pity myself for trying to do more university studies, ergo having less hours at work, ergo not being able to treat myself like this on occasion in the future).
Orange/bronze. Spicy, botrytised, honeyed, floral - primary but complex, very true Tokaji aromatics though not in the old/traditional oxidised style. The palate is huge, concentrated, heavy, supersweet (c.500g/l RS) yet oddly enough, light on its feet thanks to extremely high acidity (IIRC, just under 20g/l). The curious thing about the palate is that it has a creamy texture (yet no new oak notes that I can see) yet sparkling acidity - and this polarization (just like a creamy fish dish and an Alsace Riesling) works for my taste perfectly. The aftertaste is endless and eternally changing. If I were like RP and tasted wine with a stopwatch in my hand, I would write stuff like "aftertaste lasts for 60 lifetimes+"
A firm "rocks" on my scale. And very much needed tonight. Very young, but I drank it anyway because I think when I'm 80YO it will still taste very young. One more bottle in the cellar - perhaps to be opened when I retire, lol!
-O-