2022 Maurer 'Orion' Mézes Fehér

The Maurer family has been producing wine for four generations. They now farm 6 hectares in the SubotičkoHorgoškoj region in northern Serbia including the oldest known Kadarka vineyard in the world planted in 1880 in addition to other plantings in 1912 and older plots of Kövidinka from 1925. The rest of the plantings include grapes like OIaszrizling, Slankamenka, Ezerjó, Kadarka and Kékfrankos. There’s also few internationalvarieties including Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Pinot Noir.

This wine is a stunner. Like a blow your mind wine. Mézes Fehér, literally, “honey white” is able to contract a ton of botrytis without dropping acidity. Sourced entirely from the Krisztus vineyard in the Fruška Gora, this vineyard was completely forested
with virgin soils when Oszkár purchased it in 2006. This 2022 was exclusively from un-pruned vines and surrounded by forest and riddled with seashells and sand overlying volcanic bedrock. With about 10% botrytis, the grapes were macerated for 14 days, and then aged for 12 months in barrel under a veil of flor. The bungs were completely sealed with beeswax. This is the magic of botrytis. How could something with this burnt orange color without added SO2 not be oxidized past the point of no return? Maurer Magic