Royal Tokaji Wine Co, Tokaj Late Harvest, 2019 (500ml) Vineyard Brands Tasting Old terraced vineyards perched above

Old terraced vineyards perched above the Mediterranean sounds like the setting of a novel

floral aromatics and red fruit

like its 1985 sibling

Gras Moutons is also built for richer seafood

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Royal Tokaji Wine Co, Tokaj Late Harvest, 2019 (500ml) Vineyard Brands Tasting Old terraced vineyards perched aboveGreat sweet wine has an image problem: too precious, too formal, saved for an occasion that never actually arrives. Royal Tokaji's Late Harvest is the cure. It comes from Tokaj, the region that essentially invented botrytized sweet wine and was classifying its vineyards more than a century before Bordeaux got around to it, and it's made from grapes left hanging to shrivel and concentrate. Next to the full Asz wines it's lighter on its feet and far