Időtlen / Timeless 2023

9,800Ft

How was the wine that was drunk in ancient times? The answer is in this bottle. The birth of the Időtlen (means Timeless) was a real experiment, an intellectual challenge in 2021, and its arrival was a great success. It is an endless story, made timeless by generations. I add my own experience, vintage after vintage, with 580 bottles of Timeless. We made wine history again, with the debut of the third vintage of IDŐTLEN! The vineyard is a very old, scattered mixed plantation inherited with the estate, unseen anywhere else. The very old vines are scattered over a few hundred square metres of vineyards bordering the woods, and foot- cultivated. It’s made as wine might have been made a few thousand years ago. The varieties are e.g. pumpkin grapes, blue grapes, pink slanka, Welschriesling, ’csomorinka, gohér, but there are also varieties that will require several years of ampelographic research to determine. I harvested the fully mixed varieties at the same time, stomped the grapes with my feet, soaked them in wood and started fermentation. Finally, the must was put into an amphora in which sulphur ribbons were burnt (the Romans used sulphur to make wine). The wine was put into ceramic bottles to evoke the timelessness. The result is neither white, nor rosé, nor red. WINE. It’s just ’grand’. A beautifully coloured, fresh, intensive, fruit driven wine with a long finish. “The color is probably closest to a shiller, as it has both white and blue grapes, and the flavour is very clean. It’s not a big format wine, it’s not heavy-handed, it’s not a fancy fruit bomb, but it still has everything we love about wine. In a happy world, this would be the everyday wine to eat with your everyday bread.” (Borjour) • Made: two amphoras, 580 bottles • Mixed varieties harvested together • Vintage: 2023 • Alcohol: 13,5 %