History

Thanks. Filed that! Also snipped the following for Nils: The varieties planted in Tokaj have changed over the centuries. According to Howkins, there were as many as 12 different grape varieties planted in the region in the sixteenth century, some, none or all of which may have yielded aszú berries.22 Neither Furmint nor Hárslevelü featured on a list in an account written by Balázs Szikszai Fabricius and quoted by Howkins, despite the fact that it had supposedly been brought from Italy in the thirteenth century. Howkins says that the main grape in those days was Porcins, of which nothing is known today.23 Yellow Muscat, one of four permitted grape varieties in modern Tokaj, was not planted until the midnineteenth century at the earliest, by which time there were as many as 85 varieties in the region.24

The arrival of phylloxera in 1890, and subsequent replanting following the devastation of the region's vineyards, seems to have led to a period of ampelographical retrenchment. Local growers replanted only three grapes (Furmint, Hárslevelü and Muscat) on phylloxera-resistant Riparia portalis rootstocks. Still, by the time the Communists took over the country after World War II, the number of grape varieties had increased to more than 30 and included Góhér, Balafánt. Köverszölö and Mezesfehér, as well as a few red grapes.

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