Hungary

Question 1

What are the three larger wine producing regions of Hungary?

Answer 1

North Hungary
Danube
Transdanubia

Question 2

Where is the Danube (Duna) region of Hungary?

Answer 2

To the East of the Danube river and South of Budapest

Question 3

What is Hungary’s largest PDO by land mass? Where is it?

Answer 3

Kunság in the Danube region

Question 4

What are 3 subregions that the Transdanubian plain can be broken into in Hungary?

Answer 4

Pannon Region
Lake Balaton Region
Pannonia Superior

Question 5

Where is Tokaj located?

Answer 5

In the Northeast of Hungary near the border with Slovakia

Question 6

What mountain range shelters the Tokaj region?

Answer 6

Carpathian mountains

Question 7

What are the rivers that flow thorough Tokaj?

Answer 7

Bodrog and Tisza

Question 8

What are the 3 winemaking villages in Tokaj?

Answer 8

Mad, Tarcal, and Tokaj

Question 9

What are the three main grape varietals used to make Tokaj?

Answer 9

Furmint, Harslevelu, and Sárga Muskotály (muscat blanc)

Question 10

Historically how was the sweetness of Tokaj indicated?

Answer 10

Puttonyos - a puttonyo is a large basket used for harvesting grapes. The number of puttonyos of aszu grapes added to a 136-liter barrel of base wine was a traditional measure of the wines sweetness

Question 11

What is the minimum g/l RS for Aszú Tokaj?

Answer 11

120 g/l

Question 12

What is the minimum g/l RS for Aszú 6 puttonyos?

Answer 12

150g/l

Question 13

What is the minimum g/l RS and alcohol for Aszúeszencia?

Answer 13

180 g/l
6%

Question 14

What is Szamorodni “száraz” and “édes”?

Answer 14

Szamorodni translates to “as it was grown”, they may include grapes with botrytis, but not aszu berries.
Száraz is the dry style
Édes is the sweet style (min 45g/l rs)

Question 15

What is Eszencia?

Answer 15

One of the rarest and sweetest wines on earth. Made from the juice of only aszu grapes. Min RS is 450 g/l and min alcohol is 1.2%. Usually these wines come in at around 550 g/l RS and 3% ABV

Question 16

What is Késoi szüretelésubor in Tokaj?

Answer 16

Late harvest wines

Question 17

Where would you find “bulls blood” in Hungary?

Answer 17

Eger

Question 18

What wine is the Eger region of Hungary known for? What grapes is it made from?

Answer 18

Egri Bikavér
Kadarka, Kekfrankos, Zweigelt, Blauburger, Kekmedoc, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Pinot Noir
No one variety can constitute over 50% of the blend and at least 4 of the listed varieties must each constitute at least 5% of the blend.

Question 19

Where is Eger?

Answer 19

Northeast Hungary, West of Tokaj

Question 20

Which mountain range protects Eger from the cool winds coming off the Carpathian range?

Answer 20

The Bükk range to the Northeast

Question 21

What is Csillag in Hungary? Where specifically is it found?

Answer 21

A white blend coming from Eger PDO

Question 22

Where is the region of Somló?

Answer 22

In Norhwest Hungary between the Northern shore of Lake Balaton and the Austrian border. Within the Nagy-Somló PDO

Question 23

What is the terroir of Somló?

Answer 23

Vines are centered around the Somló hill which is an extinct volcano with basalt-rich and sandy soils.

**at the same latitude as the hill of Corton

Question 24

What is the most distinctive varietal of the Somló region?

Answer 24

Juhfark

Question 25

Where is Villány?

Answer 25

A PDO in the Southwest of Hungary at the border with Croatia and West of the Danube river

Question 26

What kind of wine is Villány known for?

Answer 26

Hungarian style BDX blends based on the indigenous Kékoportó, Blauburger, Kadarka, Kékfrankos, and Zweigelt

Question 27

What is Schiller in Hungary? Where is it made?

Answer 27

A co-ferment of red and white varietals made in the Villány PDO

Question 28

What region of Hungary sits near the border with the Burgenland and Lake Neusiedl?

Answer 28

Sopron