Hungarians and their Wines
Hungarians and their Wines

Summary/Abstract: Can we talk about Hungarian wine, Austrian wine, French wine? If we can, is the specificity linked to nation states, or is it purely geographical? Surely, no one would deny that South Africa is not the same as Italy… My foremost aim here is to propose a series of arguments on the subject of wine that may be novel but hopefully merits assent. Furthermore, as a wine writer with a twenty-year-long personal odyssey behind me, I would like to use this column to resubmit for your consideration certain opinions that have provoked resentment in several circles in the past. I will, however, do my best to refrain from overstating my passionate belief that the top echelons of Hungarian wine are without peer in any international context. Instead, I am prepared to examine these very current issues in the light of a broad-based consensus.

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