Chapter 24 - Hungary (END)

Question 1

What is the climate?

Answer 1

Moderate

Question 2

Name the Mountains between Hungary and Slovakian border

Answer 2

Carpathian Mountains

Question 3

Where are the best vineyards located?

Answer 3

1. hillside slopes

2. southerly aspects

Question 4

Which two rivers generate early morning humidity necessary for noble rot?

Answer 4

1. Bodrog river

2. Tisza river

Question 5

What are the 3 principal white grapes in making Tokaji?

Answer 5

1. Furmint - used for sweet Aszu wines
2. Harselvelu - contributes perfume to a blend
3. Sarga Muskotaly - aromatic qualities

Question 6

How many different harvest are grapes collected?

Answer 6

3 different harvest

1. selecting individual aszu grapes
2. bunches that remain unaffected by noble rot
3. Szamorodni - bunched that are partially affected by noble rot

Question 7

What is the meaning of Szamorodni?

Answer 7

‘As it comes’

Question 8

What do the terms
1. szaraz
2. edes
in Tokaji Szamorodni wine mean?

Answer 8

1. dry

2. sweet

Question 9

What is the determining factor whether a Tokaji Szamorondi wine is szaraz or edes?

Answer 9

the amount of noble rot that is present

Question 10

1. How long are ( dry wine ) Tokaji Szamorodni aged?

2. How does the wine age in the cask for dry wines?

Answer 10

1. must age in cask for a min. of one year and be two yrs old before release
2. wines not completely filled to enable flor-like yeast to form naturally on the wine- wine develops a character similar to that of a Fino Sherry

Question 11

What is the meaning of “Aszu”?

Answer 11

Botrytized grape

Question 12

Name the three types of sweet wines

Answer 12

1. Tokaji Aszu
2. Tokaji Eszencia (the sweetest and rarest)
3. Modern style sweet wines - often labelled with the term “Late Harvest”

Question 13

Tokaji Sweet Wine Laws

Answer 13

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