10,000,000 Bottles Found Among Nation’s “Liquid” Assets.
BUDAPEST, August 14 (AP).—Among Hungary’s most valuable “liquid’ assets, former Commissioner General Jeremiah Smith found were 10,000,000 bottles of the finest vintage wines, which the government was willing to sell at one-fourth their former prices. Among these were 1,000,000 bottles of the famous Tokay wines, produced only in Hungary, which could have been bought for $1 a bottle.
Before the war Hungary was a great wine-producing and consuming country. Its citizens drank freely of the delicate, amber-colored wine from the slopes of the famed Tokay Mountains. But the World War brought an end to all this conviviality and the average Hungarian is now content to drink beer or plain water.
The Evening Star, Washington, DC, August 15, 1926
