böjt Archives - Hungarianwines https://hungarianwines.eu Wines of Hungary Wed, 19 Aug 2020 11:33:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.15 https://hungarianwines.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-hungarianwines-logo-300-e1595914033459-32x32.png böjt Archives - Hungarianwines https://hungarianwines.eu 32 32 Importer of the Week: Wolfgang Endreß https://hungarianwines.eu/importer-of-the-week-wolfgang-endres/ https://hungarianwines.eu/importer-of-the-week-wolfgang-endres/#comments Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:58:22 +0000 http://www.hungarianwines.eu/?p=5726 Company: Weinkomplott Country: Germany Labels so far: 44 wineries at the moment including larger wineries like Chateau Dereszla, Bock Cellar, Vylyan and smallers like Miklós Rácz, Böjt Winery, Gróf Buttler […]

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Country: Germany
Labels so far: 44 wineries at the moment including larger wineries like Chateau Dereszla, Bock Cellar, Vylyan and smallers like Miklós Rácz, Böjt Winery, Gróf Buttler or Szászi Winery

It started with love, passion, Balaton

  • How did you become a wine professional?

Well, at the end of the 90s I fell in love with wines. I tasted many German, Italian, French and Austrian wines. I was participated in many wine tastings in Germany. Moreover once I was invited as a jury to a German Riesling tasting. I decided to take part in a professional wine seminar in Wien, Austria. Somehow I was convinced I would like to work with wines.

  • How did you become a specialist of Hungarian wines? Do you have any Hungarian relatives?

As I already had deeper knowledge on wines of the international market I travelled to Hungary for a holiday in the summer of 2004. In Balaton region I was with my acquaintances and they advised me to taste Hungarian wines. First I was a little sceptic, I must say…  but after some particularly interesting samples I was very surprised at the quality and the style of the wines. I was wondering about launching a small wine firm and if I start, why not with Hungarian wines? Hungarian wines were at that time really unknown in Germany and in Western Europe so it was quite a big challenge for me. But somehow I have started and now I am a Hungarian wine specialist! Moreover I am very happy married with a Hungarian wife and I have a son (6), who speaks Hungarian already very well! Thanks to my wife and son, Hungarian culture and love of Hungary stays with our family.

Long lasting relationships and quality oriented attitude

  • Do you remember your first experience of tasting a Hungarian wine?

Yes, I do. My first experience was with Konyári, Garamvári and Takler wines. They were also my first partners. I am very proud of these long lasting relationships and cooperations.

  • You have a really wide selection with smaller wineries and icon names as well, how do you pick a winery? What was your last discovery?

I am always very curious about new vintages, new wines and new smaller wineries. I think in the last 5-8 years a very significant innovation took place in Hungary. New small startups and new winemakers with international knowledge, experience and brand new ideas appeared on the market. Sometimes it is really difficult to follow the new trends, but I regularly take part in thematic wine tastings in Budapest and I visit the wineries personally. Thanks to my wife I get also information and news from the social media as Facebook, Blogs etc. So I am very up-to-date. Unfortunately almost all information is in Hungarian… So alone it would be a little bit difficult. I am always searching for wines of the best quality and for interesting notes. Of course the price should be also ok, but quality has priority. If I bought cheap wines of low quality, I could not sell them to my customers. We and I as specialists must stand for quality. My last big interesting discovery was in February and this is a Pinot Noir from the Tokaj wine region!

You should know your customers to make them happy

  • Who are your clients?

Through our online webshop we sell Hungarian wines all over Europe and sometimes wines go also overseas. But of course our main market is in Germany. We have a lot of regular customers. In the last 13 years we tried to maintain their trust and we are always happy to get their order. Of course we are very interested in gaining new customers as well. Thanks to our wine tastings we reach open minded people interested in new styles and new wine countries as Hungary. We have also reseller partners in Germany and Austria such as other wine stores, supermarkets, hotels, smaller wine seminars and other companies. It is very important to know your customers and their tastes moreover to have the overview about your assortment. We would like to make our customers happy with our recommendations.

  • What are your plans for the future? What will be the next new item in your portfolio?

I could say we are very satisfied and would like to continue our work on the same basics in the near future. Of course, with the same enthusiasm. I am personally dreaming about a small wine bar in Munich but it is only for the remote future. And I eagerly look forward to wines of the new vintage 2017!

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]]> https://hungarianwines.eu/importer-of-the-week-wolfgang-endres/feed/ 42 Celebrate the white (April-May) and red (July) blends of Eger! https://hungarianwines.eu/celebrate-the-white-april-may-and-red-july-blends-of-eger/ https://hungarianwines.eu/celebrate-the-white-april-may-and-red-july-blends-of-eger/#comments Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:46:34 +0000 http://www.hungarianwines.eu/?p=2926 The first thing that comes to your mind speaking of Eger is surely Bull’s Blood, though as we wrote about it, nowadays wine producers prefer to use the Hungarian name, […]

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]]> The first thing that comes to your mind speaking of Eger is surely Bull’s Blood, though as we wrote about it, nowadays wine producers prefer to use the Hungarian name, Bikavér for this blend, and quality is really high, it has nothing to do with the late 20th century mass produced cheap blends. The quality control of the wine region works properly, they make a distinction of Bikavér Classicus and Bikavér Superior.

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And once the question of Bikavér has been solved, the local winemakers realized that ‘this was fine, our red blend had returned to its glorious era, however we need a refreshing white wine as well’. So they made up a new blend in 2012 called Egri Csillag! According to the rule of the protected origin Egri Csillag, the wine has to be made of at least 4 grape varieties. The muscat or ‘aromatic’ type of grapes cannot exceed 30% of the blend. Half of the components should be Carpathian-basin originated grapes.

To read about the origin of the name of Egri Csillag, read our earlier article

One town, two blends, two seasons, two festivities

This spring you will two serious reasons to travel to the wonderful, historical town of Eger. One festival is dedicated to the white blend at the end of April, while another one is about nothing else, but the red blend and its gastronomic role. Eger is only 90 minutes drive from Budapest, or you can take a coach or the InterCity train to get there in a comfortable way. When you are in Eger, it is a must to see the castle of Eger and the renovated Turkish spa.

Egri Csillag Weekend

Date: 28 April – 1 May 2017
Location: Dobó square, Eger, Hungary
Type of event: outdoor wine festival with a masterclass

13 wineries will present the latest vintage of their Egri Csillag white blend, and trendy food trucks offer food to pair with the wines. During the 4 days of the festival 14 concerts will be organized to entertain the public. On the 29th an exciting masterclass will be held by Attila Fiáth (a student at the Master of Wine Institute), where all the new release Egri Csillag wines will be presented blind, each of them paired with a foreign white blend. Will you spot the local wines when tasted blind? Tickets for the masterclass cost 5000 HUF, if you are interested, write here: tamara.torzsi@gmail.com

Among the exhibiting wineries you will find well known, great brands like St Andrea, Gál Tibor or Gróf Buttler, traditional family wineries like Egri Borvár with Ferenc Tóth, and young talents to discover, like Böjt winery.

The festival admission is free of charge.

Here is a video from last year Food Truck + Egri Csillag Weekend:

More information: www.egricsillag.hu

Egri Bikavér Ünnep  

Date: 6–9 July 2017
Location: Érsek garden, Eger, Hungary
Type of event: outdoor wine festival

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This festivity has been held annually for 20 years, and this 21st edition will be a genuine feast both for lovers of wines and gastronomy. The concept is simple and perfect: every Eger winery pairs with a local chef, who cooks his ideal dish for the Bikavér of the partner winery. Visitors stroll among the tents and taste Bikavér wines along with food to find the role of the wine in cuisine, and of course to enjoy. A wine and food example from last year’s edition:

Stage programs and other activities, like tractor marching will entertain visitors (list of programmes is not updated yet). The festival admission is free of charge.

www.bikaverunnep.hu

 

 

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