The Budapest Wine and Champagne Festival is a great opportunity to taste award-winning Hungarian wines.

During the wine festival you can

• learn about the history of Hungarian wines and winegrowing,
  
  
• meet renowned wine makers,
  
  
• listen to folk music and concerts,
  
  
• taste gastronomy delicacies.
  
  

Besides Hungarian wines several foreign wine distributors exhibit their products as well. This year's guest exhibitors will be the winemakers of the Carpathian Basin located outside the borders of Hungary.

The festival consists of several events that take place at different venues during the second week in September 2012.

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Basic Information - Budapest Wine & Champagne Festival 2012

Opening Hours: Detailed programs and opening hours will be published as soon as the organizer announces them (hopefully soon). For further information check the organizer's website.

Ticket prices:

• one-day ticket: 2500 HUF- upon validating your ticket at the entrance you'll be given a glass tasting glass and a glass holding bag,
  
  
• 5-day pass: 7000 HUF, entrance is free for children under 12.

Tasting tickets: 100 HUF and 1000 HUF: these bones are the means of payment 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.

19th 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.

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.

Creative Corner for Children - Don’t hesitate to bring your children too, there are programs for them as well. The Creative Corner on the Savoya Terrace welcomes the little ones from 10.00 till 16.00 on 10th and 11th September (Saturday and Sunday)

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: September
Lectures:
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 Wine and Champagne Festival.

Harvest Parade & Folk Dance Gala - Buda Castle

Date: Septemeber

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

Date: September
Venue: Palace of Arts (Mupa-Művészetek Palotája at Lágymányosi Bridge in Pest)

This year the gala concert pays tribute to the legendary greats of Hungarian national romanticism. Let’s listen to their wonderful music and remember: Erkel, Dohnányi, Liszt and Kodály.

Program:

Charity and Trade Wine Auction

Date: September
Venue: ExperiDance Rendezvényház, 19-21. Ajtósi Dürer sor, Budapest, XIV. district

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

Date: September
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.

There will be have fresh, sweet grapejuice („must” in Hungarian). After a couple of glasses of wine you can join the folk music and dance groups if you feel like.

Photo Exhibiton - The peafowl took flight

Date: September
Venue: Hungarian National Gallery, Buda Castle

Every year there's an art exhbition during the Budapest Wine and Champagne Festival. This year photos by Zoltán Szalay will be exhibited. The pictures introduce the tradition-guarding Hungary of the 1970s.

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!

For more details about the International Wine & Champagne Festival in Budapest visit the organiser’s website!

The Wine Village (Borfalu) held behind the Museum of Fine Arts on Ötvenhatosok tere was another great event to taste Hungarian wines. Unfortunately it had been cancelled in 2009 due to dispute regarding rental fee between the organizer and the Municipality of Budapest.

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