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A sweet and slightly bitter visit to Tokaji – Part B
No doubt a good wine comes with a price, but $ 40,000 for a bottle of Tokai Ascensia, sounds excessive. However, the winemaker claims that the winery do not profit from the sale of this Ascensia wine (a concentrated extract of Tokaji wine) because producing one single teaspoon of it requires a pound of dried grapes....
Sweet and slightly bitter visit to Tokaji- part A
He asked us to meet him at the gas station, and from there, he would take us for a tasting. Who the hell invites wine critics to a meeting at a gas station instead of at a winery? An adventure in Tokaj, Hungary. That's how it started...
