Royal Tokaji Essencia
- Dessert
- Hungary
- Tokaj
- Tracked vintages
- 12
- Community notes
- 98
- Merchant offers
- 76
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 98/ 1002017 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 97/ 10098 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £452per 75 cl1999 · nearest vintage with a price · 500 ml in-bond trade, April 2015
- Drinking window
- From 2025drinking2017 vintage
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
No structure ratings behind this profile; the descriptors are the words drinkers used, read 2026-08-12.
- Earth · honey, ginger, earthy, forest floor, smoke
- Tree fruit · peach, apple, apricot, green apple, nectarine
- Dried fruit · raisin, prune, fig, dried fruit, dried apricot
- Oak · caramel, butter, toffee, coffee, cola
- Citrus · citrus, marmalade, orange, tangerine, lime
- Ageing (non-oak) · almond, molasses, brown sugar, burnt caramel, maple syrup
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 201798criticunit not stated
- 201698criticunit not stated
- 200999criticunit not stated
- 200897criticunit not stated
- 2007100criticunit not stated
- 200398criticunit not stated
- 200093drinkers
- 199993critic£452 / 75cl500 ml in-bond trade, April 2015
- 199590drinkersunit not stated
- 194788drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2007
- 100 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2007
- drinking, window From 2015
- Lowest price
- 1999
- £452 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | £452 | 93 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 500 ml in-bond trade, April 2015 |
Where to go next
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