A puttonyio is a Hungarian hod. Puttonyios means not hods but hodded. So a 5 Puttonyios Aszu is a five-hodded Aszu. I trust that makes everything clear. It doesnt? Let me try again. Aszu (pronounced rather like a sneeze) is Hungarian for dried out or shrivelled. The word refers to grapes affected by botrytis, the noble rot that produces the worlds finest sweet wines. A Tokaji Aszu is therefore a sweet Tokaji made from noble rot grapes, as opposed to a dry Tokaji (they do exist) or a sw....
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