Author: COPP, DAVID
Title: Tokaj a Companion for the Bibulous Traveller
Description: Budapest: Board and Bench Publishing, 2008. Paperback. ISBN: 9638752432. Color Illustrations; 5 3/4 x 10; 158 pages; Soft cover has orange spine with white lettering. This is a 2007 printing by PxB. Illustrated with color pictures and maps. 'UNESCO-listed Tokaj may be steeped in a history based on sublime sweet wines but time does not stand still, even for the wine region that was the first in the world to have its vineyards officially classified. With consumer palates progressively preferring dry wine to sweet, Tokaj’s terrific terroir is turning its hand to making dry wine with considerable aplomb.....With a little help from modern technology aside, Tokaji Aszú is largely made in the same way as it has been made for centuries, whereby botrytised grapes that were painstakingly picked berry by berry in several sweeps of the vineyard during a prolonged harvest season are added to a base wine. The grapes are afflicted by ‘noble rot’ that envelops the vineyards in the autumn, helped by the proximity of the Bodrog and Tisza rivers which actually meet in the town of Tokaj.'. New .

Keywords: 9638752432 Geography; Hungary; Wines; Winemaking; Travel Guides; Vintners; Food Business; Liquor; Cultural History; Cultural History Education European History Geography Food/Wine Business/Economics Reference Government/Economics/Law/Politics Horticulture