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‖ puttony|ˈputoɲ|
Pl. puttonys.
[Hungarian; cf. Hung. puttonyos holding as much as goes into one puttony (e.g. öt puttonyos tokaji five-basket Tokay).]
In Hungary, a basket or dosser made of wooden staves or wickerwork used to transfer grapes from the vineyard to the wine-press.
1958A. L. Simon Dict. Wines 156/1 They [sc. over-ripe grapes] are gathered in wooden vessels known as puttony, holding about 25 quarts... When the label on the bottle records ‘1 puttony’, it means that about 10 per cent of the grapes used were trockenbeeren..; if ‘3 puttony’, the proportion was 30 per cent. 1959W. James Word-bk. Wine 190 Pickers carry a small container called a puttony, into which they put selected overripe berries..; the number of full puttonyos mixed with the ripe but not overripe grapes in the fermentation cask determines the richness of the wine, the range being from one to five (and occasionally six) puttonyos. 1967A. Lichine Encycl. Wines & Spirits 426/2 The collar label on every bottle of Tokaji Aszu will state: 3 Puttonos, 4 Puttonos, etc.—the export agency simplifies the spelling by removing the ‘y’. Ibid. 522/2 The buckets or puttonys of raisin-dry, concentrated grapes added to the fermentation..are shown on each bottle of the vatting. Ibid. 523/1 The overripe, dried, shrivelled berries, picked separately and put into the little puttony pails, are worked in a trough... Alcoholic content and other characteristics of course vary with the puttonys content. 1972Guardian 26 Jan. 9/5 In theory there can be a Tokay of 6 puttonyos; but in practice only the five turns up. |