Friday, January 8, 2010

The Lure of the unpronounceable: grapes from Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia are gaining a following

A number of wine directors from New York to Los Angeles have become enamored recently of linguistic tongue twisters like Furmint, Kékfrankos, Juhfark and Pošip—grape varieties from Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia, countries once better known for their political ineptitude than their viticultural excellence.

Whether or not the wines from these countries will become The Next Big Thing or merely The Latest Little Thing remains to be seen. In the meantime, French insurance companies as well as French, Spanish and Portuguese wine estates have all been putting money into Hungarian wineries and Slovenia has attracted winemaking consultants from nearby Italy and Austria.

Full article at The Wall Street Journal

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