Puttonyos

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Unit of sugar in Hungarian and Slovak dessert wine

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::summary Unit of sugar in Hungarian and Slovak dessert wine ::

Puttonyos is a unit for the level of sugar in Hungarian Tokaji. It is traditionally measured by the number of hods of sweet botrytised or nobly rotted grapes (known as Aszú) added to a barrel of wine, but is now measured in grams of residual sugar.

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Residual sugar levels (grams per litre)

  • 3 Puttonyos – 60
  • 4 Puttonyos – 90
  • 5 Puttonyos – 120
  • 6 Puttonyos – 150
  • Aszú Eszencia – 180
  • Eszencia – 450

New regulations

From the 2013 harvest the new regulation requires minimum 120 g/L residual sugar in every Aszú wine. The producer still may use the puttonyos number on the label. The ageing criteria has also changed from minimum 2 years barrel and 1 year bottle ageing to minimum 18 months barrel ageing.

References

References

  1. link. (2013-01-18)
  2. "Tokaj termékleírás".

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