kadarka
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hungarian kadarka, from Serbo-Croatian kadarka. Compare Romanian cadarcă.
Noun
[edit]kadarka (plural kadarkas)
- A dark-skinned variety of grape grown primarily in Hungary.
- A variety of red wine made from this grape.
- 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times[1]:
- The first night, I did nothing more than have a glass of wine at Faust Wine Cellar, located under the Dominican cloister that houses the Hilton Budapest Hotel in the Buda Castle complex. But my 1,050-forint glass of kadarka (a Hungarian red grape) came with the one-on-one services of Gabor Nagy, an owner and the sommelier, who practically wouldn’t leave the table.