2022 Maurer Bakator 1909
Subotica, Serbia
2022
100% Bakator
Mild and temperate
Sand
Overnight skin contact. Fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks for 6 months.
10.5%
0.5 g/l
5.38 g/l
Notes & Pairings
When Oszkár first started making wine from this grape he joked that “I make the best and the worst Bakator” in that no one else was making any post phylloxera at the time. Add to this that his is own-rooted, bush trained, and planted in 1909. Apparently there are 3 Bakator grapes: red, white and blue. To make things easy, they are not genetically related, although they share some flavor profiles here and there when macerated. The white (Fehér) is often planted as a stamen to pollinate the red is another connection. You can find some red (Piros) Bakator along Lake Balaton, but we’ve not encountered the white. According to Oszkár, there’s only one other winery in Ukraine (Transcarpathia area) with the white Bakator as well. The 2022 had 15% healthy botrytis at harvest, was then put on the skins overnight, and fermented in stainless steel for 6 months. There’s remarkable concentration, color and lift despite being dry and barely 10% alcohol. Bottled unfined and unfiltered by gravity with zero additions.
