aszú (aszu)
English translation: dessicated, shrivelled up
| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| 12:40 Sep 11, 2002 |
| Hungarian to English translations [PRO] Agriculture / agriculture | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| ||||||
|  Selected response from: Sheila Hardie Spain Local time: 09:23 | ||||||
Grading comment
| |||||||
| Summary of answers provided | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 +1 | aszú |
| ||
| 2 -1 | dessicated, shrivelled up |
|
Answers
9 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): -1
peer agreement (net): -1dessicated, shrivelled up Explanation: I only know this word in connection with wine. In that case, it means dessicated (or dried/shrivelled up). HTH Sheila Crown Estates of Hungary - [Traduzca esta página ] ... The name Aszú means desiccated in Hungarian - Europes most complex language. The actual vinification process for Aszú wines ... www.crownestates-tokaji.com/pages/region.htm - 40k - En caché - Páginas similares Crown Estates of Hungary - [Traduzca esta página ] ... One of Hungarys and Tokajis valued treasure is a gold casket containing a deer: the Golden Deer with an Aszú berry in its mouth (Szarvas means deer). ... www.crownestates-tokaji.com/pages/szarv_vine.htm - 22k - En caché - Páginas similares [ Más resultados de www.crownestates-tokaji.com ] Tasting Notes December 1996 - [Traduzca esta página ] ... 5%. This is botrytised. Aszu means shrivelled up grapes, and a puttonyo is 20 litres (of 140 litres). This being 4 puttonyos has ... www.wrathofgrapes.com/pre9612.html - 7k - En caché - Páginas similares -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-09-11 12:51:29 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I meant DESICCATED! Sorry for the typo! Tokaj Wine - [Traduzca esta página ] ... The wines of Tokaj are classified as: - aszu - meaning desiccated - grapes are formed through over maturation. Can be desiccated ... www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/1718/jjtokaywine.html - 40k - En caché - Páginas similares -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-09-11 13:02:24 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I think it means \'shrivelled up grapes\'- see reference below: Hungary Because of its central European location, Hungary has a continental climate with long warm summers and extremely cold winters. It is home to Europe\'s largest lake, Balaton with the river Danube serving as a dividing line from North to South. It is also home to one of the world\'s oldest and most famous sweet wines - Tokay (Tokaji) - a wine revered by the Russian Tsars and said to last upwards of 300 years (see below). Almost half of the country\'s vineyards are cultivated on \'The Great Plain\' - a massive expanse of land east of the Danube and south of Budapest where the sandy soil was found to be phylloxera* resistant. From the \'Northern Massif\' with its clay and volcanic rock comes the famous \'Bull\'s Blood\' of Eger and, of course, Tokay. Indigenous grape varieties are widely cultivated and promoted including, Furmint, Kadarka and Hárslevelú together with the big western imports of Chardonnay, Riesling, Sauvignon, Muscat etc. Wine styles vary from dry through to intensely sweet with many off-dry styles produced. Tokay (Tokaji) - Aszú, Hungary\'s famous sweet dessert wine, is made by an interesting and unique process. The Tokay varietals of Furmint and Hárslevelú are subjected to the rising warm moist air from the plains and rivers below the \'Northern Massif\' giving rise to the \'noble\' fungus \'botrytis\'*, causing the grapes to shrivel on the vines and concentrating the grape sugars. These shrivelled grapes, known as \'Aszú\', are collected and put into wooden hods known as puttonyos where they are crushed into a paste. The extremely sweet juice, which runs, off is known as \'essencia\'. http://www.wineonline.ie/library/hungary.htm |
| |
Grading comment
| ||
| Login to enter a peer comment (or grade) | ||
4 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1aszú Explanation: "Aszu" is a special kind of wine. True, it is produced from two things: An ordinary Tokaji wine produced after the normal grapes harvest (like Furmint) and by the addition of the famous desiccated grapes called "aszú" sometime later (in late November or December). The quality of "aszú wine" depends on the number of "puttony", that is, how many basketful of desiccated aszú grapes have been added to the normal wine in one "Gönci barrel". The volume of one Gönci barrel is 133 liters. The number of "puttony" is between three and seven. If the "aszú wine" is a seven puttony wine, this means that the Gönczi barrel does not contain normal wine, it is purely made of "aszú grapes". Aszú is a special term for the wine produced that way in the Tokaj region (a small part of it is in Slovakia!!!), therefore, IT CANNOT BE TRANSLATED, IT SHOULD BE LEFT IN THE TEXT AS IT IS (e.g.: "aszú" wine). It is all the more true, because not the wine is desiccated, but the grapes are left on the vines until they become dry ( they are not mechanically desiccated!). |
| |
| Login to enter a peer comment (or grade) | ||
Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.
You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.
KudoZ™ translation help
The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.
See also:
Search millions of term translations