I never broached Tokaji with him. The puttyös thing is to do with the amount of baskets that go into the stuff apparently. One proud student gave me a 7-puttyös bottle and I had to feign gratitude. It really was the sickliest liquid I have ever had to sip, noble rot or not.
Under communism, Comecon decreed that Hungary would produce vast volume of wine, whatever the quality. Naturally, this meant that quantity was more important than quality. Only now are they seeing the fruits of >20 years of turning back the clocks., if that makes temporal sense. I am no expert, but some of their stuff tasted good to me. Their beer, however, was under-licence dregs.