Hi! I'm ngrass, and I live in Hungary, Europe. I'm doing blind tastings with my friends every week. We are tasting Hungarian wines in international comparison. If you want to learn more about Hungarian wines try our page: www.winetest.eu. If you have any experience with Hungarian wines abroad, do not hesitate to write a comment.
I quote "Lime-blossom tea and soap, heavy nose. Lots of acids, loads of alcohol, based on rosin. Full-bodied wine with minerals, cool and interesting. For avantgarde geologists. The points were deviated on a large scale."
we tasted a bunch last month, here are some notes..
Our Brooklyn tasters met last night and sampled some great wine with a sampling of Hungarian wine. The Cserszegi Fuszeres grape is indigenous to Hungary and is a great wine for the money, making it a quality QPR. Check it out in the months to come
The other wine which was notable was a Rose and a Muscat. The muscat was a 1997 but the above grape is worth seeking out.
Cserszegi Fűszeres is an interesting grape. It is somewhat reminiscent of Gewürztraminer, which is not surprising since Gewurz is one of its parents. One worth checking out, particularly at $8, is the 2006 Craftsman bottling from Hilltop Neszmély. I liked it better than their 2005, which even for me had a little too much acidity. The Hárslevelű and the Zöld Veltelini (this grape is better known as Grüner Veltliner) from Hilltop Neszmély are also very good value wines
Posts: 3353 | Location: Westchester, NY | Registered: Aug 06, 2006
Hi, its good to hear from someone, who is enthusiastic about Hungarian wine! You have written about the Hilltop cellar. What other Cserszegi Fűszeres wines are available in Brooklyn?
I actually just purchased one bottle (.500ml) each of the 2000 & 2001 Disznoko 4 puttonyos Tokaji this weekend. I have heard these are good vintages and am lookign forward to trying them while I let my Aszu & Essencia rest.
Posts: 1256 | Location: Chico, CA | Registered: Oct 22, 2006
We have tasted the Disznoko 6 puttonyos 2000. It was a wine with peach notes and menthol ending. Fine. Actually I do think the year 2000 was one of the best aszú-years in Tokaj in the last years.
I find it interesting that many of the people who have posted mention Tokaj as the Hungarian wine they love -- and that Kekfrankos -- one of the most native of Hungarian wines, is not known.
As a doctoral student whose research is focused on Hungarian culture (my great-grandparents came from Hungary to the US), I found the wine there to be some of the best I had ever tasted, and decided, with a Hungarian friend to import it to the US. My friend dropped out of the project, and my wines just came over -- Kristof Wines.
It amazes me how little most Americans (even those knowledgeable about wines) actually know about Hungarian culture and Hungarian wine in particular. I am trying to make my web site educational to the consumer, and a place for retailers and wholesalers to contact me and see what I have to offer. On the site, I am putting a tasting comment section next to each of my selections so that consumers can write if they tasted the wine and tell what they thought, what they eat with the wine, whether they would buy it again, etc. I hope you will check it out.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by mareff: we tasted a bunch last month, here are some notes..
Our Brooklyn tasters met last night and sampled some great wine with a sampling of Hungarian wine. The Cserszegi Fuszeres grape is indigenous to Hungary and is a great wine for the money, making it a quality QPR. Check it out in the months to come
In the last days I have tried some wines of Mészáros (cellar) from Szekszárd (region). They were really best buys. I have purchased them for 4-5 EUR each, but they were excellent.
