Hungarian wines?

[dschub1]

This is my very first visit and post to this web site. My husband and I are in a gourmet dinner club and it is tomorrow night here at my home. The group gives us the menu and the main dish is Hungarian smothered lamb. We would like to keep with the Hungarian theme with our wine. Does anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks

[sedhed]

Welcome aboard.
Some of the more experience members here can suggest a wine for the main meal. But Hungaria makes some of the finest dessert wines in the world. It's called Tokay or Tokaji and IMHO no Hungarian theme would be complete without it.
Sorry about the wrong icon:-)

[This message has been edited by sedhed (edited 03-11-2004).]

[Drew]

Can you post some of the ingrediants? That would help in suggesting a wine. Welcome BTW.

Drew

[Thomas]

Ingredients would help--especially if you are going to smother the lamb with a Hungarian...

Seriously, a classic pair with most lamb dishes is Rhone style--syrah, grenache, mourvedre, et al, wines. Need to know the ingredients to be closer to exact.

[dschub1]

Thanks for the welcome and information. This dish is lamb cut into 1 inch cubes and cooked with beef broth and some spices and served over noodles.

[Innkeeper]

Just guessing that one of the "spices" is paprika. Regardless, a nice Australian Shiraz should work.

[Kcwhippet]

Sounds like a Lamb Parikash. As IK says a Shiraz would work quite well. My dad's wife is Hungarian and she traditionally serves a nice beer (not ale) with her paprikash - usually something like Wursteiner or Stella Artois.