After the start in 1999, it took 10 years to make a traditional method sparkling wine. This is a defining product of the wine region’s past, present and, hopefully future. After the initial years, since 2013 all the sparkling wines are made entirely within the walls of the winery.
- Winery: Rókusfalvy Estate
- Vintage: 2020
- Cellaring potential: 5+ years
- Number of Bottles Produced: 4 000
- Alcohol: 12,5 %
- Total Acidity: 6.7 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 5 g/l
- Dry Extract: 17,3 g/l
- Size of Bottle: 0,75 liter
- Wine District: Etyek-Buda
- Wine Region: Upper-Pannon
- Wine District: Etyek-Buda
- Wine Type: traditional method sparkling,
- Sweetness level: brut,
- Viticulture: Traditional
- Appellation: Etyek
- PDO, PGI, wines without GI: PDO
- Grape variety/varieties (in %): 50% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Blanc, 20% Zöldveltelini
- Number of NÉBIH certificate: KMZI
- Bottle closure custom: Plastic cork
- Brief description of viticulture, fermentation, vinification and maturation: Low yielding grapes harvested fast, early by hand. Gentle whole bunch pressing, a very little (1 month) ageing in oak barrels, and a long (2,5-3 years) lees ageing period following the bottle fermentation.
- Special remarks on the wine: Traditional method sparkling wine, sur lie 30 month+