Another reason to stay at Diófa pansion in Villány

The weather is getting warm, even passionate wine connoisseurs fancy a beer, there is nothing repulsive about it, is there? Gere Tamás & Zsolt winery teamed up with Hedon craft brewery and created something great and thirst quenching: a red ale with added Kékfrankos must. The beer is available from the winery webshop and certainly you can ask for it in Villány, at Diófa Pension, the guest house of the winery.

Have you ever seen wine experts after a long wine tasting? Yes, they all sooth their tasting buds with large jars of beer. No wonder, Zsolt Takács, the sales manager of Gere Tamás & Zsolt insisted on creating their own beer brand, and now, a few months after the release he is quite happy with the result. As he commented, they could have chosen the easy way and make a beer simply aged in wine barrel, but he wanted something more exciting, something more peculiar. Hedon team was partner in crime, so WIBE was born.

WIBE Grape Ale in a nutshell

– Unfiltered red ale with added Kékfrankos must
– Vintage: 2024
– Quantity: 330 ml / bottle
– Alcohol: 7.6%
– Brewery: HEDON
– Price on winery webshop: 1290 HUF (approximately 3 EUR)
– Available here (this webshop page is in Hungarian, but Google can help).
– Only 3000 bottles were made, soon it will be sold out (a few hundred bottles left), so you had better hurry!
– Why do people like it? As Zsolt Takács comments, the beer is highly popular, because even though it has a high alcohol content, it tastes mild, slightly sweetish, and the aromas of Kékfrankos can be discovered clearly.

Festival weekend at several wineries

During the upcoming weekend several wineries will offer diverse programs in Villány wine region, Gere Tamás & Winery offers one of the most diverse programs on Saturday, on the 4th of May: creative nursery for the kids in the morning, guided tasting of treasures from the depth of the cellar in the afternoon, home-made burgers and grilled dishes all day, live music in the evening. Plus, when you have had enough of the “buzz” of the festival, you can chill in the cosy rooms of Diófa Pension, managed by Gere Tamás & Zsolt Winery.

A little language lesson

‘Borzsongás’ is an annual festival in Villány, always at the beginning of May, when nature begins to ‘buzz’, people enjoy doing picnics, the air is vibrant, joy is all around – this is what ‘zsongás’, the second part of the name of the event means. More precisely, you can hear ‘zsongás’ in a spring meadow full of flowers and bees. The first part, ‘bor’ means ‘wine’, obviously, since in Villány, in our southernmost wine region everything is connected to wine.

Basic info about Borzsongás wine festival

Venue: many wineries of Villány, for example the above mentioned Gere Tamás & Zsolt Winery, A. Gere Winery, Csányi Winery (Teleki wines), Vylyan Vineyard & Winery.

Website – programmes: the list of programmes for each day are listed on the official website of Villány wine marketing, however, only in Hungarian. Do not be afraid, you can get along, just look for the date and the name of the winery you are interested in, then you can use a bit of help from google translate.

Find the programmes here.
Advanced booking is needed in most cases!
Accommodation: Since the festival is very popular, hotels and guest houses are likely to be fully booked. Book your room as soon as possible.

Our earlier article about Diófa Pension

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Kisasszony – a rosé made of 100% Kadarka

– The fruit came from Remete vineyard in Villány, the vines were planted in 2012, it is the third vintage of the plantation (Guyot training system).
– Harvest took place at the end of September.
– After destemming the juice was placed in stainless steel tank, fermentation took place under controlled temperature. The wine spent a few weeks on fine lees.
– Bottled in April, 4000 bottles were made.
– Alcohol: 13.6%
– Acidity: 5.5 g/l
– Residual sugar: 1.1 g/l
– Description: Clear, pale pink colour. Intense nose with surprisingly white wine character. Thanks to the P9 Clone the nose and the palate are spicier than in case of many other Kadarka wines. Abundant in floral notes, the red berry fruits stay in the background. Pleasant, refreshing acidity, while the long finish is the icing on the cake. A crispy, true summer wine.

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‘Diófa’ pension in Villány

If you happen to enjoy the multicultoral programmes of the 15th Ördögkatlan (Devil’s Couldron) festival, by now probably you need a little escape from the buzzling festival venues. Gere Tamás & Zsolt winery offers chilling in the shadow of the walnut tree in Villány – and a superb menu for only 2400 HUF (around 6 euros).

The menu

Gere Tamás & Zsolt’s Diófa pension offers a soup (meatsoup or fruitsoup) with one of the 4 main courses:
– Spaghetti a la Bolognese
– Spicy chicken stripes with potato
– Swabish roast and smashed potato with onion
– Breaded pork fillet with French fries and cabbage salad

Now and after

The cultural festival ends in two days, but Villány remains one of the most vivid wine regions full of events – and if nothing happens, the wineries offer enough entertainment.
Diófa Pension by Gere Tamás & Zsolt Winery is an ideal place to stay if you want to “stay like a local”. “Diófa Pension lies in a quiet courtyard in the heart of Villány. Great atmosphere of the wine region and quality suitable for today’s demand.
We provide the comfort of our guests with 9 double rooms (3 are able to be furnished with extra bed) and a spacious family apartment suitable for 4-6 people. All rooms are equipped with LCD television, adjustable cooling – heating apparatus and own bathroom. Free wifi in all over the building. Cars of our guests are able to park free in the courtyard.”

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Aureus – intense and vibrant!

If you stay there, it is a must to taste Aureus Cuvée, the flagship wine of the estate. Tamlyn Currin wine writer of JancisRobinson.com has recently evaluated nearly 100 Hungarian wines. Gere Tamás & Zsolt Aureus Cuvée 2012 ended up being the best red blend with 17 points and she predicts an ageing potential until 2026. “Rich caramelised-fruit nose. Plums and damsons, moving into the dried-fruit and Christmas-spice spectrum with bright flecks of candied orange peel and dried apricots. Caraway seeds. Pretty vigorous tannins – I wonder what they were like eight years ago! It might even benefit from being decanted. But it has aged with grace and is certainly far from senescent. There is also a long, cool freshness running the spine. Intense, vibrant, velvet and black stones.”

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