Hungarian wine on top 10 New York Times list
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News of the Hungarian wines has reached overseas – the 2017 Royal Tokaji 5 Puttonyos Aszú finally achieved world fame.
One of the most-read American newspapers has recently published a special segment featuring wines. The Tokaji Aszú was among the top ten most recommended editions.
The perfect gift
A recent article in the New York Times, which recommends wines for Valentine’s Day, gave recognition to one of Hungary’s biggest wine brands, the Tokaji Aszú. The author writes about sweet wines explicitly, exclaiming that they, though rather tricky, can be the cherry on top of the cake at the right moment. He details the exact nature of the perfect wine pairings, and how to crown the moment with some sweet wine. The good sweet wine is balanced, bringing a lively taste and a surprising versatility to the table.
Pál Rókusfalvy, the Government Commissioner Responsible for National Wine Marketing, has called attention to the article on his social media page, Blikk writes. His post read that “even the New York Times says that with some out-of-the-box thinking, our 2017 Royal Tokaji 5 Puttonyos Aszú can be a good alternative to the usual and perhaps a bit boring sweets, jewellery and flowers Holy Trinity”.
The main ingredient is ‘risk’
The New York Times article also talks of the incomprehensible dwindling of sweet wines in the market. Though the author is confounded by the decline, they do add some possible reasons for it. For a good sweet wine, the main ingredient is risk. For a sweet wine to be properly good, the most important objective is that the botrytis cinerea, the noble rot responsible for complexity and sweetness, settles on the grapes at the exact right time.
Pretty pathetic recognition from America, the Tokai wines are and were world renown top quality winnes. It’s no wonder the late recognition coming from the country that cannot distinguish the Budapest from American town Moskow and the Europe’s capital city Paris….the kangaroos are hopping down the main street of Australian capital city Gold Coast in Queensland. Where would be America without the Hungarian culture???