NEXUS

Personal opinion:

A real, elegant polyhistor. Kadarka aszú with 120 grams residual sugar and all the spiciness of the Kadarka. A wine offering an incredibly complex experience.
According to the locals, if a lady drinks it, she will fall in love the same night. It is not a coincidence - it is a ladies' wine indeed.

Gastronomical pairing:

It gives a full experience also in itself but a brilliant companion for desserts as well.

About the Kadarka variety:

The Kadarka is a variety belonging to the wine-producing vines (Vitis vinifera) of the Vitaceae family. A popular red wine variety in Hungary, and also one of the most widespread ones. It probably arrived to Hungary through Serbia after driving out the Turks, in the 18th century. It spread quickly in Hungary and in the Reform Era it was grown in almost every wine region.
For centuries the Kadarka was a significant variety of Hungarian viticulture and viniculture. It is still a component of the Eger and Szekszárd Bikavér (Bull's Blood). The large-scale mass vine-growing starting in the 1960's almost made us forget this variety but luckily in several wine regions those cherishing vine kept it in their plantations and so it escaped dying out. Although the variety is not of Hungarian origin, it now lives its renaissance as a hungaricum.

The region and its history:

In the Badacsony area, vines were grown in Roman times, and Emperor Probus had sizeable plantings here. At the time of the settlement of the Magyars in Hungary they already knew about vines and wine. They appreciated areas capable of growing vine. A significant part of the wine region was taken over by the church in the 13th century. In the 18th-19th century the Badacsony vermouth gained a similar reputation to that of the Tokaj aszú in Europe.
During the reconstruction after the phylloxera epidemic, supporting walls were built to prevent soil erosion. New varieties also entered the area. The Szürkebarát was introduced from France by monks. Due to the special soil content it evolved into a typical local variety, the Szürkebarát, which botrytises in good years.
The variety grown in the biggest amount is Olaszrizling that is in better years ripened on the stock longer, and is used to make ice wine or late-harvest hand-selected Olaszrizling. Szürkebarát, Tramini, Sárga muskotály, Rajnai rizling and Chardonnay are also present on the larger lands.
Kéknyelű or " Blue Stem" used to be a characteristic wine of the region. It was significantly confined by the frost damage of the 1980's but is experiencing a revival today, and will be an emblematic wine of the Badacsony region again in the near future.

Badacsony wines are typically full-bodied, fiery, aromatic and mineralized. Traditional wine-making and maturation in wooden barrels are characteristic. Although reductive wine-making and other modern technologies are also spreading, they have not significantly changed the character of the region's wine, yet.

Climate and geography:

Badacsony is the highest mountain in the Tapolca Basin; it stands between two bays of Lake Balaton. The circumference of the almost round mountain is 11km, the diametre of its top region slightly elongated in the north-south direction is 1-1.5km, its highest point is 437.4 metres above sea level. Its hillside is covered up to 280 metres by various loose deposits that are excellent for growing vine, and its soil is basalt-based loess. It is covered by various loose deposit, Pannon clay and Pannon loess, above which there are basalt rocks.
Its climate is mild and balanced with high humidity. Because of the proximity of Lake Balaton the southern hills can also enjoy the sunshine reflected from the surface of the water, therefore there is a very beneficial microclimate that makes the making of natural dessert wine possible.

The wine region includes the vine cadastre-based first and second class border sections of the following settlements: Ábrahámhegy, Badacsonytomaj, Badacsonytördemic, Balatonrendes, Balatonszepezd, Diszel, Gyulakeszi, Hegymagas, Káptalantóti, Kisapáti, Kővágóörs, Nemesgulács, Raposka, Révfülöp, Salföld, Szigliget, Tapolca.

NAME: NEXUS

YEAR: 2011

VARIETY: Kadarka

WINE REGION: Badacsony

CLASS: Late harvest sweet red wine with protected designation of origin

Product of Hungary

Bottle volume: 500ml

Alc.11%vol

Contains sulfites