Quintessence: Agárd and William’s Pear winners
The patron of the pálinka competition is Dr László Kövér, the President of the Hungarian Parliament.
The announcement of the record number of entering (1318) of the Quintessence (VIII) Pálinka Competition organized by the Cultural Association of Onga was held at the Hotel Palace in Lillafüred at a gala and ball. The absolute winner of the competition was the Agárd Distillery, while the best pálinka of this competition was the Schiszler Distillery’s William’s Pear.
The audience first got to know the results of the commercially available pálinkas and then the results of the wage and private distilleries at the pálinka ball. The public awarded pálinka was chosen from the 33 big golden awarded pálinkas on Friday. The ceremony was opened by Bence Tuzson, the parliamentary secretary of governmental communication of the Prime Ministerial Cabinet. According to the public jury’s chose the public awarded pálinka was given to the Sáppuszta Distillery’s raspberry pálinka. The absolute winner of the competition was the Agárd Distillery, while the best pálinka of this competition chosen by the 28 membered international jury was the Schiszler Distillery’s William’s Pear.
Pataki Attila from Csákberény was the absolute winner among the private and wage distillers, while the best wage and private destillated pálinka award from the 31 category winner pálinkas was given to Pucsok Sándor for his plum pálinka.
According to the decision of the jury golden diplomas were given to 195, silver was given to 349 and bronze diplomas were given to 400 pálinkas and distillates. 33 champion awards were given for the commercially available pálinkas and distillates, while among the private and wage distillaries 31 category winners were awarded. The number of commercial juried samples were 433, the number of pálinkas and distillates by wage distillers was 552 and the number of samples by private distillers was 333 among the 1318 entered and juried pálinkas and distillates. Beside the great number of entered pálinkas another record is that 433 commercial distilleries entered pálinkas and distillates and all above these that the samples were not only from Hungary but also from Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Germany, Poland, Turkey and China.
The organization was closed both days by a ball.
The greatest awards of the competition: The best commercial distillery and the absolute winner is: The Agárd Distillery
The best pálinka of the Quintessence Pálinka competition is: The Schiszler Distillery’s William’s Pear
The public awarded pálinka is: The Sáppusztai Distillery’s raspberry pálinka
The best wage distillery is: Mámor Pálinka House – Felsőzsolca The best private distiller is: Pavlicsek Csaba
The best wage distiller is: Pataki Attila
The best private and wage destillated distillate is: Pucsok Sándor’s plum pálinka
The best pálinka of Onga is: Ferencz Noémi’s Yellow muscat pálinka
For more information: https://old.quintessence-palinka.hu/hu
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Tel.: 06-70-313-3216 Takács László the chairman of the Cultural Association of Onga and the manager of the competition