2022 Maurer Bakator Pét Nat

Notes & Pairings

When Maurer 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. In any case, it’s often quite prone to botrytis (see his 2022 still version), so he does a sparkling harvest before that sets in. Undisgorged, 9 months on the lees and it barely hits 11% alcohol with around 1 g/l residual sugar. Super limited, but a rare glimpse of a nearly forgotten grape.

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