I would like to get a bottle of the 1993 Pajzos Esszeencia 500ml. Never had Esszencia(had the 5 putt and that was thick and sweet) but I read this is even more so, hopefully with good acidity. I plan on drinking with Mel maybe 1/month. So I thought of getting the bottle and then dividing the contents in 10 50ml miniature bottles. I would sanitize the little bottles then fill and fill with wine and gas and screw cap on tight.
I think that a 0.7oz of very sweet wine is enough for 1 session per person. I would have prefered 1oz per person, but I think this should work.
So would this preservation method work to keep the wines good for approx. 1 year?
Sugar is an amazing preservative. I have German BAs and TBAs open in my fridge that I opened in 2006 and 2007 that are still excellent, even if they’re not quite as good as they once were. Should be no problem.
This wine comes in 100ml bottles as well. Blicker-Pierce was selling them last week.
Early in my wine life, I opened a 750ml bottle of a really good, high acid auslese for a German friend. He told me it was way too young and we were wasting it. I cleaned a half bottle and put half the wine in there and recorked it. I couldn’t even get the cork all the way in. I put it in the back of my cellar. Maybe 10-15 years later, I found it. It was golden in color and amazing in flavor. Everything I might imagine it could be.
Thanks Guys, yes I think I will go for it, and the sugar will nicely preseve the wine. Ken, I wsaw that but I am cheap and want to get the 500ml rather than the 300ml for the same price, and go through all the hassle.
I have to be thrifty as I am also very tempted by some of that 03 Giacosa that Steve found for us.
