Georgian, Armenian, and Hungarian Wines – oh my!
A good friend introduced me to wines from Central Europe about a decade ago. Egri Bikavér (“Bull’s Blood”) is a wonderful Hungarian wine. When we used to drink it, it was a very inexpensive buy. Lately I’ve been hearing a few people talking about Georgian wines. I was at our local mega-specialty wine store yesterday and decided to look for a bottle or two.
Their selection from these countries was rather limited. I picked up one Georgian wine and I found an Armenian wine. The Armenian wine is a semi-sweet made from quince. We tried it with dinner tonight and, in my inestimably poor ability to judge anything, I give it a thumbs up. I noticed that the Armenian’s make a semi-sweet from pomegranate. I’m going to start looking. I also forgot to ask them if they carry Egri – that’ll have to wait for the next trip.
Na zdrowie!
My favourite wine ever (so far) is kindzmarauli from Georgia.
Tokai Aszu from Hungary is one of the best dessert wines. It’s little pricey though. I think we should support Georgian and Armenian wines sice Russia banned them from their market because Armenian and Georgian governments are West-leaning.
I checked, Kindzmarauli is exactly what I purchased. Came in a nice black velvet bag…