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Tokaji wines have been famous for a long time, which has resulted in their name being "adopted" by other wines: Historically Tokaji was a white wine from the region of Tokaj in the Kingdom of Hungary. Tokaji wine was mentioned as early as 1635 with reference to the sweet dessert aszú (botrytised) wine.
Tokaj wine region (Hungarian: Tokaji borvidék [2] Slovak: Vinohradnícka oblasť Tokaj [3]) or Tokaj-Hegyalja wine region (short Tokaj-Hegyalja or Hegyalja) is a historical wine region located in northeastern Hungary and southeastern Slovakia. It is also one of the seven larger wine regions of Hungary (Hungarian: Tokaji borrégió).
A bottle of Tokaji Aszu. Tokaj wine region is a historical wine region located in northeastern Hungary and southeastern Slovakia. It is one of the seven larger wine regions of Hungary (Hungarian: Tokaji borrégió). Hegyalja means "foothills" in Hungarian, and this was the original name of the region.
Furmint (also known as Mainak) is a white Hungarian wine grape variety that is most noted widely grown in the Tokaj-Hegyalja wine region where it is used to produce single-varietal dry wines as well as being the principal grape in the better known Tokaji dessert wines.
Tokaji aszú is mentioned in a document of 1571, and it was famously christened by Louis XIV of France (1638-1715) "Vinum Regum, Rex Vinorum" – Wine of Kings, King of Wines. After the Ottoman Empire ceded Hungary to the Austrians in 1699, the Germanic influence was felt with the introduction of grape varieties such as Blauer Portugieser.
Tokaj wine region (Slovak: Vinohradnícka oblasť Tokaj [3]) is a wine-growing region located in south-eastern Slovakia and north-eastern Hungary.The two vine-growing areas were once part of the greater Tokaj wine region (also Tokaj-Hegyalja wine region or Tokaj-Hegyalja) of the Kingdom of Hungary.
Puttonyos is a unit for the level of sugar in Hungarian Tokaji (or tokay) and Slovak Tokaj dessert wine.It is traditionally measured by the number of hods of sweet botrytised or nobly rotted grapes (known as Aszú) added to a barrel of wine, but is now measured in grams of residual sugar. [1]
Tokaji (formerly spelled Tokay in English), wines produced in the Tokaj region of Hungary and Slovakia; Muscadelle, called Tokay in Australia; Tocai Friulano, a defunct synonym for Sauvignon vert in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia wine region in Italy; Tokay d'Alsace, an obsolete name for Pinot gris grapes in Alsace