If you enter a house in Hungary, the first piece of food you are offered is a salty, round cake called pogácsa. The texture is quite similar to that of the English scones, but pogácsa is always salty. Kadarka, a lighter bodied, easy drinking, fairly spicy wine is a perfect match with pogácsa, two things that have been consumed million times together at simple tables covered with red and white checked table cloth. Try the combination, and enjoy the simplicity, which will give you the pleasure of perfection.
See the recipe below the wine info.

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Vesztergombi Kadarka, Szekszárd, 2021

Szekszárd is famous for Kadarka variety, and Ferenc Vesztergombi, who was awarded the prestigious Winemaker of the Year in 1993, is an enthusiastic producer of the variety along with his son, Csaba Vesztergombi. They were the first to organize a vertical tasting of their Kadarka wines to prove that yes, Kadarka has an ageing potential, and with time the notes become more complex, deeper. Their Kadarka wine comes from a 100-year-old plantation, fermented in stainless steel and aged in large casks. „When we blend it with other varieties, we always keep the dominant characteristics of Kadarka in mind. We believe that good Kadarka wines need about 10% botrytised berries to achieve the unmistakable aromas of Szekszárd Kadarka.” Currently 2021 vintage of Vesztergombi Kadarka is on sale.

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My mother’s pogácsa recipe

– Mix 500 grams of flour with 250 grams of cold butter.
– Heat 55 ml milk and when it is lukewarm, add a teaspoon of sugar and 25 grams of yeast.
– When the yeast has risen, mix it with the flour and add 2 egg yolks, 2-3 pinches of salt and 150 ml sour cream.
– Mix it well and then place it in the fridge for half an hour. Spread the dough with a rolling pin and fold it like you would fold a piece wrapping paper together.
– Place it in the fridge again for 20 minutes.
– Spread it again, fold it again, let it rest in the fridge again.
– After 20 minutes spread it again and with a glass cut little circles
– Spread them with beaten egg, place them on baking paper and put them into a preheated oven.
– Bake them until they are golden (in about 25-30 minutes at 180 C)
The basic ingredients can alter, cottage cheese, cheese, yoghurt, pork cracklings can also serve as the base of the dough.

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