Tokaj-Hegyalja

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Vineyards in the Tokaj-Hegyalja wine region .
Location of the Tokaj-Hegyalja wine-growing region (red) in the northeast of Hungary.
Tokaj vineyards in the 2nd half of the 16th century. Graphic by Georg Hoefnagel .

Tokaj-Hegyalja [ ˈtokɒj ˈhɛɟɒljɒ ] ( German  " Tokaj- Untergebirge " ) is the Hungarian geological and geographical name of a certain Hungarian area about north of the city of Tokaj and at the same time the name of the Hungarian Tokaj wine region, in which the famous Tokaj sweet wine is grown. These are essentially the slopes of the Zempléni-hegység (= Tokaj Mountains ; formerly known as the "Eperies-Tokaj Ore Mountains").

The term Tokaj-Hegyalja is now commonly used in Hungary as a name for the wine-growing region, officially Tokaji borvidék ( Tokaj wine region ). This wine-growing region consists of 28 wine-growing communities that cultivate around 5800 hectares of vineyards that are exclusively planted with white wine varieties.

Slovakia is also allowed to designate its region as the Tokaj wine region , as a complaint by Hungary was dismissed by the EU. The Hungarians also refer to the Tokaj-Hegyalja region as the gateway between the Carpathian Mountains and the Puszta in the Great Hungarian Plain . In 2002 the UNESCO declared Tokaj-Hegyalja as a cultural landscape a world cultural heritage .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tokaj remains a Slovak trademark on Radion Slovakia International from November 9, 2012, accessed on November 12, 2012

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