Hungary Flashcards
Who owns Oremus?
Vega Sicilia
Who founded the Royal Tokaji Co?
Hugh Johnson with investors in 1990
When was Tokaji’s classification final legal recognition?
1772
The region of Tokaji is sheltered by what mountains?
Carpathian Mountains
What is Máslás?
Tokaji Aszú that has spent time on lees
What is Circle of Mad?
A small contingent of Tokaji producers committed to elevating the stature of dry wines from the region
What is Esszencia?
- A tiny fraction of syrupy, free-run juice is allowed to settle out of the Aszú must and vinified separately
- Sometimes takes decades to reach 4-6% abv
- Can have upwards of 800 g/l of RS
What container is used to collect Aszú grapes? How much does it hold?
- Puttony
- 25kg
What is Puttonyos?
- The puttony are 30l/25 kg of Aszú paste that is mixed in the gönc barrel (136 l)
- The number of puttony determines the sweetness (4-5-6)
What is a gönc?
A Hungarian oak cask of ≈136L
Kékfrankos is a synonym for what grape?
Blaufränkisch
What grapes are authorized for Tokaji production?
- Main: Furmint and Harslevelű
- Secondary: Sérgamuskotály, Zéta, Kabar, Kövérszőlő
What year does Aszú first appear in published work?
1571
What does Édes and Száras indicate?
- Édes - sweet
- Száras - Dry
- Found on Aszú Szamorodni labels
What is forditás?
Wines that are the product of refermenting wine with pressed paste of Tokaji Aszú
What are the 2 Great First Growths of Tokaji?
Szarvas (Tokay)
Mézes Mály (Tarcal)
What synonym for Muscat Blanc á Petits Grains is authorized for Tokaji?
Sárgamuskotály
What is the local synonym for the Oremus grape in Tokaji?
Zéta
What are the 3 major geographic zones of production in Hungary?
- North Hungary
- Transdanubia (Western)
- Great Plain (Southern)
What geographical zone is Tokaji located within?
North Hungary
What and where is Eger?
A PDO located in North Hungary famous for Egri Bikavér - “the bull’s blood of Eger”
*Historically dominated by Kadarka—an indigenous, low-tannin, light-bodied and not particularly sanguine grape—modern Egri Bikavér is a blend of at least four varieties, incorporating Kékfrankos (Blaufränkisch), and other Hungarian and international grapes.
What does “Bikavér” indicate on a label? What are the only 2 regions allowed to use the term?
- A blend of at least 3 varieties, incorporating Kékfrankos, and other Hungarian and international varieties
- Eger and Szekszárd
What is Kékoportó?
A Hungarian synonym for Blauer Portugieser
What Hungarian region runs contiguous with Austria’s Burgenland?
Sopron
What is “Natúresszencia”?
A synonym for Esszencia
How many villages are classified for Tokaji?
27, including Tokaj which is the furthest south
What is words indicate late harvest on a bottle of Tokaji?
Késői szüretelésű bor
What are the rivers of Tokaji?
Tisza and Bodrog
How long must Aszú 3/4/5/6 puttonyos be aged?
Min 3 years (including 2 years in barrel)
What is Villány?
- Hungary’s hottest region, on the southern border
- Known for Bordeaux varieties, Kékfrankos, and Kékoportó (Blauer Portugieser)
What are the classifications of Aszú Tokaji sweetness?
- 3 Puttonyos - min 60 g/l of RS
- 4 Puttonyos - min 90 g/l of RS
- 5 Puttonyos - min 120 g/l of RS (130g/l from 2014)
- 6 Puttonyos - min 150 g/l of RS
- Aszúesszencia (7-9 Puttonyos) - 180 g/l of RS
- Natúresszencia - 450 g/l of RS (formerly 250 g/l of RS)
*From 2014 3 and 4 putt. will be no longer produced.
What is Olaszrizling?
A synonym for Welschriesling
What Somló?
A white wine dominated region
Furmint, Juhfark, Olaszrizling
What does Tokaji Szamorodni mean? What is it?
“As it comes”
- A mixture of Aszú and non-aszú grapes
- Often oxidized
- min 2 yrs in cask
- Sometimes under a film-forming yeast similar to flor
- May be sweet or dry
- Édes (sweet)
- Száras (Dry)
What is the major grape of Sopron?
Kékfrankos
What is Hungary’s largest region?
Kunság (Great Plains)
-Mass white wine production with some red
What are the 2 principal grapes of Tokaji?
Furmint and Harslevelű
Del Balaton?
Whites wine from local grape IRSAI OLIVER;
Close to Lake Balaton.
Soil Tokaj-hegyalija?
- Volcanic, Loess
Puttony?
30l (25 kg Aszu berries)
When the first Ice wine has been produced in Hungary?
- 1999 Chateau Pajzos
Tokaij wine production?
The aszú grapes are handpicked individually and gathered in containers called puttony—puttonyos is an adjective rather than the plural form—which hold roughly 25 kg. As in Sauternes, yields are miniscule. A tiny fraction of syrupy, free-run juice is allowed to settle out of the aszú must—this will be vinified separately as Esszencia. The aszú is then trampled into a paste, or dough, and a number of puttony containing aszú paste is mixed with gönci barrels of must or base wine from non-aszú grapes. The number of puttony added to a gönc (a Hungarian oak cask of approximately 136 L) determines the final sweetness of the Tokaji Aszú wine, and Tokaj Aszú was labeled with 3-6 puttonyos to indicate sweetness. It ages for just over two years prior to release (with a minimum 18 months in barrel) and must contain at least 120 g/l of residual sugar and achieve an actual alcohol content of at least 9%
