Winery Szöllősi PincészetNeszmélyi Irsai Olivér
White wine
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Details and technical informations about Winery Szöllősi Pincészet's Neszmélyi Irsai Olivér.
Discover the grape variety: Muscat à petits grains
Muscat à petits grains is a white grape variety of Greek origin. Present in several Mediterranean vineyards, it has several synonyms such as muscat de Die, muscat blanc and frontignac. In France, it occupies a little less than 7,000 ha out of a total of 45,000 ha worldwide. Its young shoots are downy. Its youngest leaves are shiny, bronzed and scabrous. The berries and bunches of this variety are all medium-sized. The flesh of the berries is juicy, sweet and firm. Muscat à petits grains has a second ripening period and buds early in the year. It is moderately vigorous and must be pruned short. It likes poor, stony slopes. This variety is often exposed to spring frosts. It fears mildew, wasps, grape worms, court-noué, grey rot and powdery mildew. Muscat à petits grains is used to make rosé wines and dry white wines. Orange, brown sugar, barley sugar and raisins are the known aromas of these wines.
Informations about the Winery Szöllősi Pincészet
The Winery Szöllősi Pincészet is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 24 wines for sale in the of Neszmély to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Neszmély
The wine region of Neszmély is located in the region of Észak-Dunántúl of Hungary. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Hilltop or the Domaine Hilltop produce mainly wines white, pink and red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Neszmély are Chardonnay, Pinot noir and Harslevelu, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Neszmély often reveals types of flavors of vegetal, tree fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of floral, red fruit or earth.
The wine region of Észak-Dunántúl
Hungary, in Central Europe, has gained its reputation in the wine world through just a couple of wine styles, but for centuries it has been a wine-producing nation of considerable diversity. In addition to the Sweet wines of Tokaj and the Deep Bull's Blood of Eger, the Hungarian wine portfolio includes Dry whites from the shores of Lake Balaton, Somló and Neszmély, and finer reds from various regions, notably Villány, Sopron and Szekszard. Hungarian wine culture stretches back to Roman times and has survived numerous political, religious and economic challenges, including Islamic rule during the 16th Century (when Alcohol was prohibited) and the Phylloxera epidemic of the late 1800s. The modern Hungarian wine regions are distributed around the country.
The word of the wine: Grafting
A method used since the phylloxera crisis, consisting of fixing a graft of local origin on a rootstock resistant to phylloxera.
