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Book reviews 2015 – Hungary

Tamlyn Currin
Tamlyn Currin
Monday 4 January 2016
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For links to all of Tam's reviews of wine books published in 2015, see this guide.

Tokaj 
People and vineyards
Dániel Kézdy
Gourmandnet Kft
€32.95, Ft 9,900

Dániel Kézdy is so devoted to Tokaj-Hegyalja that he started Furmint February – a series of Furmint-fervid wine-tasting events all over Hungary every year. This book, his first, was written in Hungarian and has been translated into English by Zsuzsa Pocsai and Szabolcs Hatvani. It was proofread, I see, by Robert Smyth – author of the book below. A small world indeed.

It is, simply put, 50 portraits of a region. It...