The of the month - HUNGARY - November 2011
Hi again, I am right on time!
1st of November to announce a new theme : HUNGARY.
Since I’ve been tasting along, I always seem to have a certain affection with wines from Eastern Europe. And when I came across some white wines at a tasting, I knew I was going to make this my new theme.
When you look at a wine map from Hungary, you can see that there are many regions:
1 Sopron, 2 Nagy-Somló, 3 Zala, 4 Balatonfelvidék, 5 Badacsony, 6 Balatonfüred-Csopak, 7 Balatonboglár, 8 Pannonhalma, 9 Mór, 10 Etyek-Buda, 11 Ászár-Neszmély, 12 Tolna, 13 Szekszárd, 14 Pécs, 15 Villány, 16 Hajós-Baja, 17 Kunság, 18 Csongrád, 19 Mátra, 20 Eger, 21 Bükk, 22 Tokaj-Hegyalja
The regions that I’ve heard of in my very short period in the wineworld are Nagy-Somlo for their white wines, Villany and Eger for their red wines and Tokaj-Hegyalja for dessert wines. I’ve already had 2 Tokaj’s and my lord, I love it.
Luckily those names are easy to remember, but the name of the Hungarian grapes are not. So I am not going to copy them all into this introduction, but I hope you will learn along with me as I will review these wines:
I’ve selected 2 white wines and 2 red wines:
KREINBACHER-SZENT-ILONA - Furmint 2009 (€8,40)
KREINBACHER-SZENT-ILONA - Nagy-Somlo 2009 (€9,50)
TAKLER - Kadarka 2008 (€14,00)
THUMMERER - Egri Bikavér 2006 (€11,20)
I am curious what I will learn from this selection. I guess it will be a lot more than just ‘good’ wine.
Let’s pop.
JDR
(I shopped at Vinikus&Lazarus and MigsWorldWines )