Left Continue shopping
Your Order

You have no items in your cart

Maurer Bakator Pet-nat 2022

Sparkling Wine from Other Countries, Serbia
$28.99
In stock and ready to ship
Get 10% off purchases of 12+ bottles of wine.
(Use code 10OFF at checkout.)
Only 9 left

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.

YOUR DELIVERY OPTIONS:

  • Same Day Delivery Call us at 415-780-1405 for more details.



The Maurer family has been producing wine for four generations with Oszkar being the current Maurer in charge. It was during the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in the 19th century that they moved from Salzburg to the southern part of the Kingdom of Hungary. When the border was redrawn, they ended up on the Serbian side. The estate is split in two with 6 acres in the Serbian wine region of Szabadka directly south of the Hungarian-Serbian border. Another 10 acres are located in the historic region of Szerémség (Syrmia) located 40 miles away from Belgrade and bordered by the Danube River to the north. This is where the wines below are grown.

Maurer is the only winery producing natural wine in the region but fortunately, there is an increasing number of followers. All fermentations are spontaneous (primary and secondary) without the use of any additives apart from SO2 at bottling if he thinks it’s needed. These two are wines that Oszkar makes with zero additions of any kind. The wines then sit on their skins for 4 -7 days. His barrel regiment is all used, mostly Hungarian oak and only racked once to tank for bottling.

Details

  • Grape Variety

    Other White Grape

  • Vintage

    2022

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Natural

  • Style

    Earthy , Minerally

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied

Customer Reviews

Be the first to write a review
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)