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Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival
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The Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival is a great opportunity to taste award-winning Hungarian wines. During the wine festival you can
Besides Hungarian wines several foreign wine distributors exhibit their products as well. This year's guest exhibitor will be the Freixenet Group (famous for its champagnes) from Spain. The festival consists of several events that take place at different venues, on the second weekend in September 2009.
Basic Information - Budapest International Wine & Champagne Festival 2009
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Ticket prices:
- one-day ticket: 2300 HUF- upon validating your ticket at the entrance you'll be given a glass tasting glass, a glass holding bag,
- 5-day pass: 6300 HUF, entrance is free for children under 12.
Tasting tickets: 100 HUF and 1000 HUF: these bones are the means of paying for tasting wines at the wine festival. Depending on the wine maker and the quality of the wine price of 1 dl wine starts from around 300-500 HUF.
You also pay for food with tasting tickets which can purchased at every information desk in the area of the Budapest Wine Exhibition & Fair.
18th Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival
Wine Exhibition and Fair in the Buda Castle
Venue: Buda Castle-Palace terraces Budapest,
More than 170 wine distributors exhibit their products from Hungarian wine regions and foreign countries as well. You can taste culinary delicacies between two sips of wine: fried and grilled meats, sausages, stuffed cabbage will be made in open-air kitchens, but lighter snacks such as scones, töki pompos (a flat bread-like pastry baked in oven), and a selection of cheese will also be available. |
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Colorful programs accompany the fair on two stages: musical performances, men’s choir, folk dancing, jazz music, etc. You can become a wine judge for a few minutes!
Visit the Vinagora Tent! You can meet the Ace Winegrowers of Hungary and of course taste their wines.
Don’t hesitate to bring your children too, there are programs for them as well: puppet theatre, mediaeval playhouse. Every day between 10 am and 6 pm you can leave your children at the childcare where qualified attendants will look after your little ones while you’re tasting wines. They can draw, listen to stories and have delicious grapes.
TIP: learn more about the Budapest International Wine Festival's main venue the historic Buda Castle District.
Wine University - Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival
Date: 8th-9th September
Lectures: 9.00-16.00
Venue: 1st store of the MKA headquarters (Szentháromság tér 6.)
During the two-day lecture series you can learn about the secrets and history of wine making and viniculture from acknowledged experts. Wine tastings are prominent part of this popular educational program of the Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival.
The second day of the wine university is dedicated to the guest country/exhibitor of the festival that will be the
Spanish Freixenet Group in 2009.
Harvest Parade - Buda Castle
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Come and see or join the parade! Representatives of Hungary’s wine regions and the festival’s guest countries, members of the Hungarian Wine Orders and associations, cheese masters, the Order of the Wine Knights and folk ensembles from the wine regions will march in the procession.
Gala Concert of the Inetrnatonal Wine c Champagne Festival, Budapest
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Venue: Palace of Arts (Mupa-Művészetek Palotája at Lágymányosi Bridge in Pest)
This year Weber-Berlioz: Invitation to the Waltz will be performed by Gergely Bogányi and the Óbuda Danubia Orchestra.
Charity and Trade Wine Auction
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Venue: Museum of Military History
You can bid for special rare bottles of wines by highly acknowledged wine makers. This year’s novelty is a special section for the catering trade. Part of the proceeds will be donated to the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service.
Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival
Vintage Parade and Harvest Celebration at the Outdoor Village Museum
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Venue: Szentendre, Open-Air Village Museum
The museum revives 19th century vintage traditions. You can watch grape harvest and vintage festivities, visit cellars in the recently opened section. Taste wines, grapes and have traditional vintage dishes. Children can take part in various activities, for example scarecrow making.
They have fresh, sweet grapejuice („must” in Hungarian). Craftsmen from the Southern Transdanubian regoin introduce their traditional works. After a couple of glasses of wine you can join the folk music and dance groups if you feel like.
Art Exhibiton - Storyteller Wine Labels
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Venue: National Gallery, Buda Castle
Every year there's an art exhbition during the Budapest International wine and Champagne Festival. This year a collection of wine labels will interpret the history of wine making regions from the 1870's to present days.
Come to Budapest in early September and enjoy not only the sunny indian summer but the programmes of the Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival! And taste great Hungaraian wines!
TIP: the Wine Village (Borfalu) held behind the Museum of Fine Arts on Ötvenhatosok tere is another great event to taste Hungarian wines.
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