Budapest grand tasting

Well, the event will not take place in New York City, as the quotation marks suggest. The 14th editionof this annual tasting will be held at New York Palace in Budapest, like in the past years. This magic, volcanic wine region will be represented by nearly 40 wineries, among others by Borbély Family Winery. Usually, the tickets are sold out much before the event, so here we are warning you…

Badacsony includes Badacsony and more – what?

Badacsony is a mountain (in our cover photo), but also the name of one our 22 wine regions. Well, if you mean the wine region, the area is broader, it includes several witness mountains besides Badacsony: Szent György mountain, Csobánc mountain and hills like Sabar, Tóti and Ábrahám.

About the grand tasting

Date and time: 5 April 2025, 15.00–20.00
Venue: New York Palace (Anantara Hotel), Erzsébet körút 11, Budapest 1073, Hungary
Tickets: 13 900 HUF / person (approximately 35 EUR). In case some tickets are left, they are slightly more expensive on the spot (15 900 HUF / 40 EUR).
Get your tickets here (in Hungarian, but google can help)
See the list of exhibitors here
Contact the organisers here

Borbély Kéknyelű Selection 2021

Most Hungarian wineries rush and release their wines too early. Well, Borbély Family Winery does not belong to the racing winemakers, they are keen on waiting until the optimal moment. The current vintage of their Kéknyelű is 2021, while Kéknyelű wines from other wineries are more recent vintages. Borbély Kéknyelű matured in new oak barrel for 7 months, yet it is not the barrel that dominates the wine, more the minerality due to the volcanic soil.
Find Kéknyelű on Borbély webshop

Borbély wines are available in Germany (ungarische-weinauslese.de) and in the Netherlands (wijndruppels.nl). If you are interested in importing Borbély wines, contact Tamás Borbély.

Do you know Kéknyelű grape?

It is a true rarity, wines made of this grape are simply unmissable, if you participate in the event. Wineries usually have one, monovarietal wine of this grape.
– Kéknyelű is almost exclusively grown in Badacsony wine region. Planting alternate rows with a variety such as Budai Zöld encourages more consistent pollination.
– In good vintages it gives elegant wine with creamy structure and subtle, fine acidity. Rare grape variety that is capable of giving exceptionally high-quality wines.
– Kéknyelű is quite likely of Hungarian origin. Very popular among the winemakers, though it is hard to cultivate. It ripens relatively late therefore it needs protection from the hungry games living in the forests of Badacsony and Szent György mountain.
“Kéknyelű, meaning ‘blue stalk’ and referring to the slightly blue tint of the petiole, is an old variety probably originating from the Badacsony region in western Hungary. The alleged synonymy between Kéknyelű and the Italian Picolit mentioned in the Vitis International Variety Catalogue has been disproved by DNA profiling.” Excerpt From: Robinson, Jancis; Harding, Julia; Vouillamoz, Jose. “Wine Grapes (9780062325518).” iBooks.

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