White wine process of secondary fermentation of champagne. The enrichment of some of the population created a craze for rare wines. This phenomenon, which was already responsible for the development of sherry in England, was reproduced in Central Europe. The discovery of the benefits of the noble rot on white grapes took place around 1650 in Hungary for the development of Tokaji wine. Hugh Johnson declared that: "the Tokay of three centuries ago was the best sweet wine in the world, it was inherited from a long-standing winemaking tradition". Developed with a grape whose exceptional maturity is due to a trade secret,
Irish wine Irish wine Irish wine production takes place in a small number of vineyards and wine producers the majority of which lie in County Cork, Ireland, with Lusk, North County Dublin, also producing a wine named 'Lusca'. Ireland is officially listed as a wine producing country by the European Commission, and Ballydrehid House Estate (in Cahir, County Tipperary), Blackwater Valley Vineyard (Mallow), Longueville House (Mallow), West Waterford Vineyard (Cappoquin, Co. Waterford) and Thomas Walk Vineyard (Kinsale) all produce wine despite being well north of the area where the "Vitis vinifera" commonly occurs. The facts surrounding Ireland's early wine production are unsettled.