EUROPE

Question 1

How is Tokaji wines made in Hungary?

Answer 1

Carefully selected and handharvested
botrytis infected grapes (aszú)

Essencia
Free-run juice put inro glass bottles and
stored for years

Puttony wine
Tokaji wine + aszú grapes
Stocked in barrels for years

Gönz = barrel of 136L

Question 2

What grapes are used to make Tokaji wines?

Answer 2

Subsoil in Tokaj is
vulcanic rock with clay and sedimentary topsoil.
Climate is cool

Furmint
Hàrslelevü

Kabar
Kövérszölö

Zéta
Yellow muscat

Question 3

What are the quality structure in Tokaji wines?

Answer 3

Aszú grapes are attacked by botrytis rot

Non-Aszú is dry wines fx
Tokaji Furmint

Tokaji Szamorodni
full-bodied white wine
Aszú + non-Aszú
száras = dry
èdes = semi-sweet

Aszú 5 puttonyos (incl. 3+4)
120 g/L

Aszú 6 puttonyos
150 g/L

Aszúesszencia
180 g/L

Natúresszencia (free-run juice)
450 g/L

Tokaji Aszú must be
min. 9 % abv
matured min. 3 years, 1.5 years in wood

putton = a traditional wooden bucket (28L)

Question 4

What are the principle wine disctrict of Bugaria and Romania?

Answer 4

Bulgaria - 90 % exported
Danubian Plain
Black Sea Region

Romania:
Transylvania

Question 5

Name grape varieties in Eastern Europe and where they are grown

Answer 5

Hungary
Furmint
Haslelevu

Slovakia
Furmint
Veltliner

Bulgaria
CBS
Mavrud

Romania
CBS
hybrids

Croatia
Grâsevina
Traminac
Crljenak Kastelanski

Georgia (semi-sweet white and red)
Rkatsiteli
Mtsvani
Saperavi

Moldova
(Russian continuous method, fermenting wine through pressurized tanks)
Rkatziteli
Saperavi

Cyprus (Commandarie, red, sweet dessert wine)
Mavro
Xynisteri