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Wine Tasting in Budapest
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Wine Tasting in Budapest
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Your visit to the Hungarian capital will not be complete without tasting the nation's great wines. Altough Budapest does not have vineyards you can taste and buy wines form all the country's wine regions in the city's many tasting places and speciality wine shops. The best places for wine tasting in Budapest Wine Tasting in Budapest-The Best PlacesEvening Wine tasting & Dinner in Budapest
More Opportunities for Wine Tasting in Budapest:House of Hungarian Wines (Magyar Borok Háza) In the cellars of the Neo-Gothic building 700 Hungarian Wines represent the country's 22 wine regions. Out of the 700 you can taste 50-55 wines within the admission price, snacks are also offered. The expert cellar masters will tell you everything you want to know about Hungarian wines and viticulture. TIP: Budapest Card holders get 15 % discount on the admission. You'll get a tasting glass, and can wander through the cellar complex while tasting the wines you wish to. You can learn about the 22 wine regions of the coutry in 4 languages (English, German, French and Hungarian).
Free wine tasting on Saturdays between 14.00 and 17.00. They also have a shop at 7. Ráday utca in the IX. district (M3 Kálvin tér). Első Pesti Borház The cellar system incorporates a wine shop, and wine museum with more than ten thousand bottles of Hungarian vintage wines. In the shop you can select from around 200 types excellent quality wines. Advanced booking is required. Prés Ház Wine Shop and Museum Free wine tasting of 300 quality wines. La Boutique des Vins Owned by the award wining wine producer, Malatinszky from the Villány wine region. Besides the Malatinszky Kúria wines you can buy here selected Tokaji aszú wines.. Le Sommelier Demijohn This is the shop of the Neszmély-Hilltop winery, the main exporter of quality Hungarian Wines to the UK. Tinto Fino Hungary's 1st wine store A real Mekka for wine lovers: around 1000 types of wines from Hungarian, Spanish, Italian, French and other foreign producers. In the Tapas bar you can have snacks (ham, cheese and other delicatessies) that accompany the wines you taste. It's on the galylery of the store so you can admire the 10.000 bottles while sipping your wine. To book a table in the bar call: (+36) 70 385 9067. Törley Champagne Factory You can see the world's biggest wooden barrel here that is still in use, learn about the secrets of making champagne while strolling though the more than 100-year old and several hundred kilometres long cellar complex. Advanced boooking is necessary. Wine Festivals in BudapestA couple of 2-3 day festivals welcome wine lovers from all over the world in Budapest every year. The good thing is that these events offer entertainment not only for wine connosieurs but a series of dance shows, concerts, food and cheese stalls, children programs ensure that everybody finds something interesting to do. Spring Wine Festival in mid-April starts the line of wine tasting events in Budapest. It takes place in downtown Budapest at Városháza tér behind Deák tér (M1, M2, M3 metro lines). The next major wine event in Budapest is the Wine Village in mid August at Felvonulási tér behind the Museum of Fine Arts (Heroes' Square, M1 metro). Here you have the opportunity to taste Hungarian wines from all the 22 wine regions of the country. This festival is less touristy and much cheaper than the next one: the International Wine Festival in Buda Castle.
International Wine & Champagne Festival in the Castle District is usually on the 2nd weekend of every September. Both Hungarian and international wine makers introduce their best wines.
This festival is rather crowded regrading its premise is one of the most popular tourist areas in Budapest without the wine festival. Admission: approx. 2000 HUF/adult: a wine tasting glass with a small ...and a couple of coupons are included
Wine Tasting in Wine RestaurantsPerhaps the best way to find out which wines appeal to your taste is to sample some in a good wine restaurant and then buy the ones you like in a wine shop. This way you avoid buying pig in a poke. Here are a few wine restaurants in Budapest where you pamper your taste buds with delicious Hungarian dishes that you can rinse with Hungarian wines from the best producers: Maligán Bock Bistro Borbíróság Restaurant Borkatakomba Housed in the spacious wine cellars of the Budafok Winery. You can sit in a large barrel and enjoy wines by candlelight. New-Nádor Wine Restaurant You can choose from 70 Hungarian wines to go with a traditional Hungarian dish. Wine Tasting Outside BudapestIf you come to Budapest for more than just a couple of days do visit the nearby wine regions to get a first hand impression about the country's wines and viticulure. The best way to get to these places is by car, if you came to Budapest by air you need to rent a car. Altough there's a fairly good train service in Hungary, for first time visitors and foreigner it is a bit difficult to know your way around train timetables. Moreover driving is more flexible than train travel, you can stop when and where you wish to. Etyek-Buda Wine Region Lying about 40 km far from Budapest this wine region is the nearest to the capital city. The climate and the soil provide good conditions for producing quality whites. This region produces the base wines for champagne making too. If you come in the second half of May or on the first two weeks in September don't miss the Etyek Wine Festival.
Major grape varieties: Chardonnay, Italian Riesling, Királyleányka, Sauvignon Blanc Recommended winery in Etyek Buda wine district: Haraszty Vallejo Winery Eger Wine Region Location: 130 kilometres north-east of Budapest, at the foot of Bükk Hills It's worth visiting Eger not only for the famous Egri bikavér (Bull's Blood) red wine, but for the town's rich history and sights. Eger is one of my favourite towns: I love the charming, Baroque city center, the crooked streets, great restaurants and cafés. The Szépasszony-völgy (literally Beautiful Lady's Valley) has many old wine cellars carved into the hill: you can taste and buy wines from the local producers. The more than 200-years old National Wine Museum and the István Cellar of the Hotel Crown besides wines from the Eger region introduces you other Hungarian wines and history of wine making. Major grape varieties: reds:Kékfrankos, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Kékoportó, whites: Leányka, traminer, Italian riesling, Muscat Ottonel Address: Hotel Korona, Tüdérpart 5., Eger
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