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This is a resource for people who want to buy an interesting bottle of wine on a budget of about $20. If you get lost between Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon and have access to a Dan Murphy's or Vintage Cellars (or Aldi, as of 2015!), you've come to the right place. Where possible, wines are listed with their single-bottle price from DM/VC/A and the winery's home page.

A good place to start is the 'Index', or if you know what type of wine you want, head straight to the 'Recommended Reds', 'Worthy Whites' or 'Stunning Sparklers' that only show 4 & 5☆ wines.

Your experience will be different to everyone else's, which makes wine such a pleasure. The same vintage wine at different ages will be distinct, as will the same aged wines from different vintages. What the glass holds is a unique parcel of time that should be enjoyed as such.

Tuesday 5 March 2013

(R) Hungarovin: "Szekszárdi" Kadarka 2009, from Szekszárdi, Tolna County, Hungary

Smell
Early: Herbaceous and unripe fruit with a touch of minerality and hints of the sort of green vegetables that go well with fish
Later: Dates and slightly overripe plums, sprinkled in spices

Taste
Dark reddish to coppery brown colouration. A smoky opening is quickly overcome by quite ripe fruit, which is predominantly warm red cherries. The fruits disappear after a while and are replaced a combination of ash and sunburnt prunes with a handful of spice. By the end this quickly descends into a sour mixture of orchard fruits and forest berries. This particular Kadarka is actually a painful experience. I can only finish the final glass with a delicious roast lamb chaser. Not a recommended wine unless as a gift to someone with a unique sense of humour and no sense of taste or smell. Surely this wine was exported from Hungary to Australia because no one in Hungary would drink it.

Tale
Unfortunately little information can be found about this producer, who appears to be based in Budapest and produces wines from various parts of Hungary. The Celts are claimed to have brought winemaking to the Szekszárd wine region over two thousand years ago, with Kadarka being the region's flagship varietal. The Hungarian Eger wine region is renown for their Bull's Blood blended red wine (Egri Bikavér) and the Szekszárd region is the only other region permitted to produce Bull's Blood (Szekszárdi Bikavér).

Price: $13
Quality: ☆
Value:   ☆

Brand: www.hungarovin.hu (page is blank, as the producers are probably in hiding)
Producer: www.szentistvankorona.hu (difficult to translate & no mention of this wine)
http://danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_74923


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