Budapest Daily Review

Maybe apart from Mátyás Szőke, there has not been any reason why I should have gone to Mátraalja up til now. I ran into a chilly bottle in my oncle’s kitchen and I liked the simplistic, but not “oh so trendy” minimalist bottle label of a so far to me unknown (but not unheared) winemaker called Tamás Szecskő.

This was the beginning of a long evening so I did not plan to pay too much attention to this wine (there were better known aces to follow). Maybe because of the cool temperature (below 10 celsius) its smell seemed very modest, lucking the suspicious sweetness and I don’t like the overly spicy white wines anyway. It has a very light, transparent color and probably without any scientific explanation that usually indicates crispyness to me. And it was. Very well balanced, easy to drink cuvée made from Zöldveltelini and Chardonnay (from 2005). A combination I’ve never seen before by the way. I so regret that I did not buy more Zöldveltelini (Grüner Veltliner) on my last purchasing trip to Wein und Co few weeks ago where there’s still an ongoing major sell-off of these. It’s an extremely easy to drink wine and that’s a bit dangerous because it’s 14,5% alcool. We so quickly finished 2 bottles of them and without having my notebook with me that I can hardly write anything more. I only now that I will have to buy it somewhere which probably won’t be easy because of Zwack’s exclusivity and it’s wide unavailability. I don’t even know how much could it cost, I found the Királyleányka (rumoured to be also very good) below EUR 6 which would qualify this wine for a best buy too.

Score: 6

Price: (guess) EUR 6

Note: the photos is an illustration taken of the

Tags: 2005, best buy, white, Zöldveltelini