Hungary / Bulgaria / Romania

Question 1

Hungary is divided in 3 main regions:

Answer 1

• Great Alfold (Plain) east of the Danube (between Danube and Tisza river, south)
  Pannon region
• Trans-Danubia (everything west of Danube river)
  Balaton PGI / Sopron / Eszak-Dunantul
• Northern Hungary (between Danube and Tisza river, north)
  Eger / Tokaj-Hegyalja

Question 2

Bulgaria regions

Answer 2

Danubian Plain region
Black sea region
Sub balkan region / Rose valley region
Thracian Lowlands Region
Struma Valley region

Question 3

Romania regions

Answer 3

Banat
Crisana
Maramures
Moldova
Dobogea
Muntenia
Oltenia
Transilvania

Question 4

Tokaj PDO grape varieties

Answer 4

Furmint
Harslevelu Sargamusckotaly (yellow muscat)
Zeta
Koverzolo
Kagar

Question 5

dry tokaji

Answer 5

Tokaji furmint / tokaji harslevelu / tokaji koverszolo / tokaji muscat

Question 6

Tokaji Szamorodni

Answer 6

full body white wine / mixture of Aszu and non-Aszu grapes, all picked together

dry = Szaras
semi-sweet = edes
sweet

Question 7

Tokaji Aszu

Answer 7

grapes left on the vine to be attacked by Botrytis Cinirea = Aszu grapes

part gently pressed, remainder are pressed into a paste which is added to the wine into a ratio of 20-25kg

6 puttonyos = 150g/L

Question 8

Tokaji Eszencia

Answer 8

free-run Aszu grapes juice
extremely difficult to ferment due to high sugar content