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Their farming is organic and deliberately severe: they target around 1.5 kilograms of fruit per vine where commercial growing takes twenty to thirty, and they went several years without even copper, using only sulphur and natural preparations. 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The name is Polish for \"as it was born\", and it describes the method: rather than picking botrytised berries out individually as you would for Aszú, whole bunches are taken as they come, shrivelled and healthy fruit together, and fermented as one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFermented to dryness and then left in barrel under a native yeast veil — flor, the same phenomenon that makes fino sherry — it becomes something almost no other region produces. Nutty, saline, oxidative and profoundly savoury, with the volcanic acidity of Tokaj underneath holding it all upright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJudit and József Bodó set a high bar for what qualifies: more than half the berries in a given bunch must be botrytised. 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