Hungary

Question 1

What is the capital of Hungary?

Answer 1

Budapest

Question 2

Where in Hungary is the Tokaj region?

Answer 2

NE corner

Question 3

At the confluence of what two rivers is Tokaj?

Answer 3

Tisza and Bodrog

Question 4

What river actually runs along the eastern border of Tokaj

Answer 4

Bodrog

Question 5

What was the Tokaj region formerly known as?

Answer 5

Tokaj-Hegyalja

Tokaj “foothills”

Question 6

When was Tokaj first classified? By who?

Answer 6

• 1700 (or maybe 1730, not definitive)
• Transylvanian Prince Rákóczy
• delimited 28 villages
• 1st, 2nd, 3rd growths

Question 7

What is aszú

Answer 7

• originally signified desiccated grapes

- evolved to indicate grapes of high sugar levels afflicted with botrytis cinerea

Question 8

What came first, aszú wines of Tokaj or Rhine or Sauternes?

Answer 8

Tokaj came first!

-definitely by mid 1600s, about a C before Rhine

Question 9

What wine is known as the “wine of kings and the king of wines?

Answer 9

Tokaji

Question 10

Why did quality of Hungarian wines suffer in 19th c?

Answer 10

Communism

Question 11

When was fall of communism

Answer 11

1989

Question 12

Top estates in Tokaj

Answer 12

• Royal Tokaji Company (Hugh Johnson)
• Tokaj Oremus (Vega Sicilia)
• Disznókõ (AXA Millésimes - Ch.Pichon Long.)
• Királyudvar (Hwang fam - also owns Huet)

Question 13

Tokaji vs Tokaj?

Answer 13

Tokaji - refers to wine - adjectival

Tokaj - region

Question 14

What mountains shelter the Tokaji region?

Answer 14

Carpathian

also at base of Zemplen

Question 15

Climate of Tokaj

Answer 15

warm continental

humid autumn

Question 16

Soils of Tokaj

Answer 16

Volcanic loess and clay

Question 17

Best aspect in Tokaj

Answer 17

South facing

Question 18

What is the Tokaj Renaissance

Answer 18

Producers association devoted to protection of concept of 1st, 2nd 3rd growths initially declared by Rákócsy

Question 19

How many 1st growth vineyards in Hungary?

What are the two Great 1st Growths?

Answer 19

74 vineyards are 1st growth

• Szarvas (near Tokaj)
• Mézes Mály (Near Tarcal)

Question 20

2 principle grapes of Tokaj?

Other grapes?

Answer 20

Furmint, Hárslevelú

Sargamuskotály (muscat)
Zéta
Kabar
Kövérszóló

Question 21

What makes Furmint ideal for Tokaji Aszú?

Answer 21

• particularly susceptible to botrytis

- high in acid

Question 22

What is a puttony? Size?

Answer 22

25 kg container for handpicked aszú grapes

Puttonyos is adjective

Question 23

What is Esszencia

Answer 23

syrupy, free-run juice that settles out of the aszú must

-450 g/l RS

Question 24

What is a gönc

Answer 24

Hungarian oak cask of approximately 136 L

Question 25

How is final sweetness of Tokaji Aszuú determined?

Answer 25

number of puttony added to a gönc of must/base wine from non-aszú grapes

Question 26

What year did major revisions affect the labeling of puttonyos?

Answer 26

starting 2013

Question 27

How is puttonyos legally used on labels from 2013 onward?

Answer 27

Puttonyos labeling is permitted for marketing purposes only - 3&4 puttonyos: min. 120 g/l of residual sugar - 6 puttonyos: min 150 g/l of residual sugar

Question 28

Requirements for modern Tokaj Aszú wines?

Answer 28

- Simply labeled Aszú - ages 3 yrs, 18 month in barrel - min 120 g/L RS - min alc. 9%

Question 29

What is typical ending alcohol of Esszencia?

Answer 29

4-6% | legal min is 1.2%-8%

Question 30

What was Aszúeszencia

Answer 30

Former category between 6 puttonyos and essencia (180 g/l - 450

Question 31

What is Tokaji Szamorodni?

Answer 31

"as it comes" - mixture of aszú and non-aszú grapes - often oxidative - matured in cask min 2 years - sometimes under flor-like yeast film

Question 32

What is édes and száras?

Answer 32

- édes - sweet - min. 45 g/l - száras - dry - max 9 g/l *can be appended to Tokaji Szamorodni, Fordítás and Máslás

Question 33

How are Fordítás and Máslás Tokaji wines made?

Answer 33

Fordítás - refermented with pressed paste of Tokaji Aszú Máslás - refermented with spent lees of Tokaji Aszú

Question 34

What producers association committed to elevating the stature of dry wines from Tokaj did István Szepsy help found?

Answer 34

Circle of Mád

Question 35

What is Késői szüretelésű bor

Answer 35

Hungarian late harvest wines

Question 36

What is Fehér bor

Answer 36

Hungarian white table wines

Question 37

What is Pezsgő

Answer 37

- Hungarian sparkling wines from Tokaj - Minimum Pressure: 3.5 bars - Minimum Residual Sugar: 15 g/l

Question 38

Hungarian word for wine?

Answer 38

bor

Question 39

When did Tokaj successful gain sole rights to provenance of its name?

Answer 39

2007 - in Alsace - Pinot Gris no longer Tokay d'Alsace - in Italy - Tocai Friulano now just Friulano

Question 40

3 major geographical zones of Hungary

Answer 40

- North Hungary (Észak Magyarország) - Transdanubia (Dunántúl) - Great Plain (Duna)

Question 41

What is Észak Magyarország

Answer 41

North Hungary

Question 42

What is the Danube river known as in Hungary?

Answer 42

Duna

Question 43

PDOs of North Hungary

Answer 43

- Bükk PDO - Debrői Hárslevelű PDO - Eger PDO - Mátra PDO - Tokaj PDO

Question 44

What is OEM and OFJ?

Answer 44

- OEM: (Hungarian term for PDO wines) | - OFJ: (Hungarian term for PGI wines)

Question 45

What is Egri Bikavér?

Answer 45

"Bull's blood of Eger"

Question 46

Historical main grape of Bikavér? How is it made in modern times?

Answer 46

- Historically - Kadarka | - Modern - blend of at least 3, including Kékofrankos (Blaufränkisch)

Question 47

Two most important PDOs in North Hungary?

Answer 47

- Tokaj PDO | - Eger PDO

Question 48

What is Kékofrankos

Answer 48

Blaufränkisch

Question 49

What two PDOs are permitted to use Bikavér on labels?

Answer 49

- Eger (North Hungary) | - Szekszárd (Transdanubia)

Question 50

OG puttonyos RS amounts

Answer 50

3 Puttonyos - 60 g/L 4 Puttonyos - 90 g/L 5 Puttonyos - 120 g/L 6 Puttonyos - 150 g/L

Question 51

What is the largest lake in Central Europe?

Answer 51

Lake Balaton - Eastern Hungary 22nd largest in Europe

Question 52

Important PDOs of Transdanubia

Answer 52

Badascsony Balatonfüred-Csopak - these two on northern shores of Lake Balaton Somló - NW of Lake on slopes of extinct volcano Villány - Southern along Croatian border Sopron - NW - contiguous with Austria's Burgenland Szekszard - can use Bikavér on labels

Question 53

What color grapes dominate Badascsony, Balatonfüred-Csopak, Somló in Transdanubia?

Answer 53

White grapes - furmint - juhfark - Somlo - olaszrizling (Welschriesling)

Question 54

What is the name for Welschriesling in Hungary?

Answer 54

Olaszrizling

Question 55

Where are red grapes found in Transdanubia?

Answer 55

extreme south and north - Villány - Sopron

Question 56

Main grapes of Villány?

Answer 56

- BDX varietals - Kékofrankos - Kékoportó (Blauer Portugieser)

Question 57

Main grape of Sopron

Answer 57

- Kékofrankos - contiguous with Bugenland in Austria - Blaufränkisch made on both sides of border

Question 58

What is the hottest region in Hungary?

Answer 58

Villány

Question 59

Where is the majority of Hungary's acreage under vine?

Answer 59

Great Plain | east of Transdanubia

Question 60

What is the largest region in Hungary?

Answer 60

- Kunság (in Great Plain) | - mass production white wine from indigenous grapes

Question 61

What is Egri Csillag?

Answer 61

"Star of Eger" | -white blend

Question 62

Where is the Zemplén forest and why is it notable?

Answer 62

- North of Tokaj on Slovakian border | - Source for Hungarian oak! 3rd most popular after French and American

Question 63

What countries border Hungary?

Answer 63

Starting North, going clockwise ``` Slovakia Ukraine Romania Serbia Croatia Austria ```