Tolna

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The appellation's most significant and virtually dominant surface formation and soil parent material is loess, whose layer thickness reaches 70 metres near Hőgyész.
• A smaller portion of the vineyards are established on sand — for example in the areas around Pincehely, Hőgyész, and Dúzs — while the dominant soil types of the vineyard areas belonging to the Tolna Hills and Outer Somogy are brown earths and clay-illuviated brown forest soils, though vineyards on calcareous chernozem soils also occur.
• The mountainous and hilly terrain of the Tolnai wine region falls predominantly into the moderately warm and moderately humid climate type, with a long-term average annual mean temperature of 11.8 °C and a mean of 15.8 °C during the growing season.
• Actual sunshine hours can reach 2,060 per year, the total heat sum is 3,400 °C, the effective heat sum is 1,300 °C, the wettest months are May and June, and the prevailing wind direction is north-westerly.
• The vineyards of Tolnai are mostly established on gently sloping, sheltered hillsides and slopes with favourable southerly aspects, covering a total of approximately 2,900 hectares across Tolna, Baranya, and Fejér counties.

• The Tolnai wine region has been an officially recognised appellation since 1998, though viticulture has been present for far longer, tracing its roots back to the Celts and Romans. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)
• During the Árpád era, Benedictine and Cistercian monks in the abbeys devoted great effort to maintaining well-tended vineyards. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

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Sources

• Specification (EUR-Lex, single document)
• National product specification (PDF) — agrarminiszterium
• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-HU-A1353
• Official trade body site — Tolnai Borvidék Hegyközségi Tanácsa