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Puttonyos is a unit for the level of
Wine Glossary: Puttonyos
sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose, and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double ...
in Hungarian Tokaji (or tokay) and Slovak Tokaj dessert wine. It is traditionally measured by the number of hod
Hod or HOD may refer to:
* Brick hod, a long-handled box for carrying bricks or mortar
* Coal scuttle, bucket-like container for carrying coal
* Hawk (plasterer's tool), used to hold plaster
* a container used to hold clams when clam digging
* ...
s of sweet botrytised or nobly rotted grapes (known as Aszú) added to a barrel of wine, but is now measured in grams of residual sugar. The ''puttony'' was actually the 25 kg basket or hod of Aszú grapes, and the more added to the barrel of wine, the sweeter the eventual wine. Measurement ranges from 3 to 6 Puttonyos. A Tokaji made entirely from Aszú grapes is not labeled using the Puttonyos system but is known as Eszencia.Kissack, Chris, thewinedoctor.coWine Glossary: Puttonyos
Residual sugar levels (grams per litre)
*3 Puttonyos - 60 *4 Puttonyos - 90 *5 Puttonyos - 120 *6 Puttonyos - 150 *Aszú Eszencia - 450New regulations
From the 2013 harvest the new regulation requires minimum 120 g/L residual sugar in every Aszú wine. The producer still may use the puttonyos number on the label. The ageing criteria has also changed from minimum 2 years barrel and 1 year bottle ageing to minimum 18 months barrel ageing. http://boraszat.kormany.hu/download/2/e9/a0000/TOKAJ_termekleiras+modositas_E_jelolt.pdfReferences
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