I just watched a great movie tonight, and it keeps asking me questions. The movie is Being John Malkovich. And the main question: "Am I really a girl?" Devil may care.
Well I know you girls care about it, and rightly so, too, in this cosy circle of trusting-one-another, highly-sophisticated-and-yet-relaxed-in-our-safe-virtual-heaven women. So let us say that I am a girl, and that, comfortable as we may be among ourselves, we can discuss some topics otherwise monopolised by men. I propose one. One of particular relevance to me these days: what really good Hungarian wine is there around?
We drank such a great bottle of Valyan lately with Lynx. A Montenuovo Cuvée, 2003. How impressive! It first makes it so dry for the palate that you can only feel a taste from the second half of your mouth. As if the first half of your tongue had disappeared! And then, with a few minutes passing by and a few glasses passing in, the far tip of your tongue begins to feel this twinkling sensation, and then a stripe in the middle of your tongue gets into the dance and finally the sides of it join in for a fireworks of fruits and spices. At which time you are stone drunk. The stuff is 14 degrees, what?Any other remarkable Hungarian wine experience of yours?
11 comments:
Welcome to the blog :-)
Your description of the "like-licking-a-stone" wine is more than perfect! I couldn't have said it this nicely...
Bissous sur ta ventre!
Cserszegi fuszeres. From Neszmely. Its a fruit garden, feels like drinking fragrance. Later effects a nicely engaging, light and smiling drunk state. Till 2 bottles for 3 women. Further we never checked ;)
I can't decide if the adjective "trusting-one-another, highly-sophisticated-and-yet -relaxed-in-our-safe-virtual-heaven" is negative or positive...or if this is an adjective, for that matter ;-)
Now we do begin to have a list for The unmissable Hungarian wines. Go on! Go on! Now we should set a golden standard to compare other wines to. Lynx, what was the very nice and quite frequent Kékfrankos we had like a thousand times?
Hi there,
I had a pretty bad day so I am using the last drops of my self-control to keep the remarks about the introduction part for myself.
Let's be MEN, and not MEAN this time, and focus on the message, not on the style. So I skip the "not WHAT you said but HOW you said" part for now. :)
I am far from being a wine-expert, as you know, and the flat BC wines do not help to develop.
My favorite wine is the Szekszardi Kekfrankos. The best quality I had so far was from.....(((Takler?))) I cannot recall the name properly. It's extremely dry and heavy, with an aftertaste that makes you virgin again. It is avaliable here in specialty boose-shops, I don't know from which winery.
Adding to the theory: can you really suggest wines without knowing someone's taste? Talking about quality wines, is the category of good wine is so objective? It is a myterious world for me, like absolute hearing, and I would like to know more about it. (I'v heard about experiments to identify good and bad wines based on chromatography - they did'nt work.)
Teach me, please.
Tarelle, that must have been a Gere or a Takler, I can't recall. In Castro they have Szeremley (if I am not mistaken) and I like it a lot. (and I am sure you did not mean to be rude with the introduction - but it DOES sound offensive...dommage!)
About two years ago I had the chance to taste a 120-euros-a-bottle, five-star wine from 1990...well, I thought I won't be able to tell the difference from other good wines, but unfortunately, I was. As a consequence, I refused to drink ordinary wine for about a week.
Nanaimo, do you remember the liquorous white wine we had at the oenologie-club, that tasted like a can of sardinia?
Nanaimo,
I guess from your comment that my post seemed to you less sympathetic than what it was intended to be. It makes me so sad. I was so happy and enthusiastic to join this group, and I tried to suggest you why: "trusting-one-another" because I can see the closeness and complicity between you, "highly-sophisticated-and-yet-relaxed-in-our-safe-virtual-heaven" because this portion of the internet is unknown to the rest of the world, so you can (and now we can) say safely what we want with no fear of being judged along preconceived standards, "we can discuss some topics otherwise monopolised by men" because some idiotic men think they are the only ones to be able to discuss certain topics, I think it is nonsense and I say we can discuss them if we like, because we are so "comfortable [...] among ourselves" (ie... we are easy-going since we speak to one another).
I am sorry it was not clear enough how happy I was to join this little group and how I liked you all. Too bad.
Good bye.
Tarel
EGRI LEÁNYKA!!!
OK, Tarelle,
I was just afraid that you want to bring "order and method" into the blog and I never had any before :)
I guess we can discuss topics without categorizing them.
Welcome to the blog and sorry to hurt you even without telling my remarks!
Yeah, I remember the sardinia-wine, and I had similar experience with BC wines too.
And I remember the veryexpensive uberfancy white dessertwine which resembled chamomille tea in taste and colour as well. The only wine which I poured into those steel-buckets...
I have the impression that sweet wines are not for real winelovers. But luckily I already declared myself not to be one, I can confess that Tokaj wines are also have their special little corner in my world. Especially when you want to show off with something pure Hungarian. :)
I've seen a movie over the weekend ("Notes on a scandal")quite a nice one with great acting and some purely enjoyable replique, like when the host (a boheme lawyer) asks the guest:
"- Tell me any alcohol you would like, we are semi-professionals here.
-Are you interested in wine?
-Not really, just the drinking part."
But you had been telling them quite explicitely already. And now only one or two steps further.
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