Total quantity produced: 882 bottles

"It's a great experience to taste it after the estate wine, because it really comes out as a half-head taller, more complex wine. Concentrated yellow-fleshed fruitiness on the nose, apricot and peach decorations, deep and noble aromas, along with immeasurable purity. Truly captivating. Complex and youthful flavors at the same time, it has exceptional power, with delicate acids alongside high sugar. It is permeated with the kind of inexplicable primal power and depth that only the greatest wines have. The aftertaste is apricot jam, but tight, with endless playfulness. Újhegy is the lush indulgence, the estate wine is the textbook example, and this is a completely unique composition. A masterpiece, very close to perfection. 9+ Points"
Gergely Ripka (Creator of TokajGuide & Aszú glass)


ISTVÁN SZEPSY ...
... is introducing two unique Tokaji Aszú made from Furmint grapes harvested in two carefully selected parcels of two first-class vineyards on their estate in Mád. The special features of the 2017 vintage, as well as the knowledge and experience of Szepsy’s last three decades, are revealed in these wines in a passionate but understandable way. In 2017 the combination of a lot of sunshine, cold nights and cool dawns, and appropriate precipation, had such a stimulating effect on the quality of the Furmint vines living in the Szent Tamás and Betsek vineyards of the Szepsy estate that a vintage giving lots extraordinary in all respects could manifest. In these wines significant traits of the two vineyards bring a world of flavours in an unparalleled way like never before: beautiful aromas, striking acidity and high aging potential in concentrated, elegant and lively wines.

ÚJHEGY ...
... lies to the west of Mád, above the main road. From the surface the soils are stony, quartz tuffite. Varying in hardness, they layer with clay minerals. A typical case of post-volcanic activity. The land is difficult to work due to the hardness of the clay and quartz. Vines love these kinds of soils that never crack due to the high stone content and retain water well under the surface while the surface is dry and hot. Today this hillside belongs to Rátka village. However, in the past it was known as Tállya vineyards because Rátka was destroyed during the Ottoman campaign in 1566-1567, and until the mid-18th century the settlement was deserted. In the records there are very limited data available for the historical research. The name Újhegy (New Hill) probably refers to the relatively new vineyard plantation. Its first mention emerged on 1st March in 1680 when it was registered as a tithe paying vineyard of the Regéc Estate, cultivated by Tállya market town. The manorial census of 1689 reconfirms this information on Újhegy. That time the owner of the estate was the Rákóczi family, and after the fall of the war of independence, the Trautson family came into possession of the estate and Újhegy as well.