Showing posts with label Budapest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Budapest. Show all posts

Friday, April 29, 2011

Lelovits Kékfrankos 2007

the Kekfrancos grape on the vine
Similar to a Pinot Noir, the Kékfrankos grape is red and juicy and grown in Hungary and eastern Austria (known in German as Zweigelt).


Unfortuantely, our latest attempt at getting a Kékfrancos...that is, replicating the absolute heaven that was a bottle of Kékfrancos bought in 2007 in Budapest, was a no-go. V.C.'s latest trip to Hungary (resulting in 2 bottles of wine) was less successful than originally hoped, mostly due to her inability to remember exactly what kind of wine she got last time - just that it was a Kékfrancos. And communication in A) Hungarian and B) English with Hungarians can be, to put it diplomatically...difficult.

Result? The realization that not all Kékfrancos are created equal. A mediocre yet incredibly cheap (< 1000 Forint, i.e. ~ 4 Euro) bottle of Kékfrancos from a charming wine shop midway between our hostel and the downtown (Pest) ended up coming home with me, to be drunk about a week ago in my apartment in Amstetten.

Says C.B.: "Not as divine as what we had 3 years ago." With yucky-face sort of like this: >:P