July wine event Archives - Hungarianwines

Taste “Young Lady” in pink at Lake Balaton

Hungarianwines.eu — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:41:57 +0000

9th Zamárdi Rose Festival on 21–23 July

Certainly, we are talking about a wine. ‘Kisasszony’ (literally ‘Young Lady’ or ‘Miss’) is a rosé wine made by Zsolt Gere in Villány. He will present his rosé wine this weekend at Lake Balaton. Zamárdi is a village on the south shore of Lake Balaton, a popular holiday resort. What’s more, Zamárdi has a partnership with Villány, the southernmost wine region of Hungary, and the annual rosé buzz is the fruit of this partnership.

Date and time: 18.00–23.00, 21–23 July 2023
Venue: Rendezvénytér (‘Rendezvény’ square), Zamárdi, Hungary
Program: Hungarian folk and pop on the stage, manifestation and Péter Besenyei aerobatics show
No entrance fee, wines are to be paid at the exhibitors

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.

More about Gere Tamás & Zsolt Winery

The best location to enjoy this rosé is the shadow of their walnut tree in Villány!

Check out Gere Tamás & Zsolt Diófa Pansion (‘Diófa’ is ‘Walnut tree’)

Look at the photo below! Is the rosé small or the glass huge?

As Zsolt Takács commercial manager explained, the glass is large, it has the capacity of 5 litres!

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Open cellar doors at Iván valley, Szekszárd on 22 July

Hungarianwines.eu — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:53:00 +0000

Taste the “Kadarka fusion” of 5 cellars

Iván valley is a gorgeous place to hike and the great cellars on the path make it even more attractive. The so called “Kadarka Tour” was an extremely popular event earlier this year, therefore the winemakers of the valley decided to open their cellar doors again. No entrance fee, just relaxed tasting.

Date and time: 11.00–20.00
Participating wineries: Vida Wine Estate, Tüske Cellar, Sebestyén Cellar, Németh János Winery, Heimann Family Estate
Szekszárd is easy to acces by car (only 2 hours from Budapest), train or bus.
Walk a little… From winery to winery, guests should walk, but don’t worry, short distances, for example from Németh János Winery to Sebestyén Cellar it is only 2 minutes. We suggest to start the tour at Heimann Family Winery, it is a bit farther (18 minutes) from the others, so you can do the longest walk while you are still fresh.
Wines to taste: Participants can taste the community Kadarka, a wine made together. This Kadarka is available at each the 5 wineries. Of course, other wines will be offered to, from the crispy white and rosé whites to the serious red wines.
Food: Wineries will prepare different bites to match with the wines: local cheeses, tapas, cold platters, “pogácsa”.
Wineries ask guests to send an email in advance with the approximate time of arrival and the number people in a group so that they can prepare properly.

Contact to Heimann Family Winery

Check photos of previous tours in the valley here

Do you know Kadarka grape? Here you can find a lot of information in one place.

More about Heimann Family Winery

The Winemaker of the Winemakers 2023

The winner of the 17th edition announced

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Be optimistic and get the blues this summer!

Hungarianwines.eu — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:13:45 +0000

Sabar Wine House has had enough of the pandemic and boldly announced the dates of the 4th Sabar Blues event. The estate lies among the picturesque volcanic hills and mountains of Badacsony region, a stone throw from Lake Balaton, the largest lake of Central Europe. The event will be safe: the space around the buildings is large enough to ensure the possibilty of keeping distance.

Dates: 2–4 July, 2021

Location: Sabar Wine House, Badacsony, Hungary (about 2 hours’ drive from Budapest)

Price: free (you only have to pay for your consumption)

More about Sabar and its wines

Outdoor Oasis

As Spiros Malandrakis, Euromonitor International’s head of alcoholic drinks research said to Chris Boiling in an interview, after the pandemic open air places will have spacial importance. “Wine tourism could benefit as consumers look to reconnect with nature and visit open-air venues for leisure and to safely socialise. An Outdoor Oasis provides a change of scenery and enables the feeling of connectedness while disconnecting from crowds. Dining, exercising, socialising and relaxing in open-air venues become essential for trapped consumers.“

Sabar Wine House is a perfect example of this Outdoor Oasis, and you can easily find a house to rent for your stay – disconnection is guaranteed.

Want to get younger?

Last year all of us spent the spring in lockdown – so did the musicians. As a consequence, all the music, all the energy stayed inside their souls and waited for the moment to burst out. The moment came in the summer, at Sabar Blues. As Gábor Ádám, the owner of Sabar Wine House recalls: “Last summer the bands played with so much power, they recharged our energy level so much that we felt 20 years younger”.

If you want experience the unexplainable, try and visit Sabar Blues. An important argument pro the tour: Sabar wines are amazing, complex, crystal clear, exciting.

As for the bands, they are not announced yet, but there is a movie about last summer’s event, if you like blues, you will enjoy it a lot!

Watch Sabar Blues movie

Sabarism – a philosophy to heal the soul

Maybe it is the charisma of the owner. Perhaps the taste of the wines from the volcanic soil. Could be the magic attraction of these ancient hills and mountains of Balaton Uplands. Or all of them together, but people experience something unique there, and with the help of the regular visitors, Gábor Ádám put it into words in the following way:

It was not conscious at all. The concept of sabarism simply developed somehow and also the name came from you. After a long night spent on the wine terrace, a guest of ours texted us this word. We found it nice and funny, so we started using it in our everyday lives, and at this point, we may be able to finally define what it really means.

We have been a small winery for ten years, with great plans and great wines. Many of you have been regular visitors to Sabar Hill almost from the beginning, and some of you even take our wines with you to ski. 🙂 More and more people like spending time here with a growing family and a growing circle of friends, and sometimes you celebrate important anniversaries with us. When you are here, it is like spending college years together. The most essential thing is being together, laugh and share experiences, just like back in school. This is what sabarism means to us. Relaxed and cheerful moments, days, tearful laughs, emotions, tranquility.

We know you, sabarists.

We don’t know your biographical information, but we know how good it feels to ease up here after a hard week. Or to just lay your eyes on the clouds for long minutes. To drink a few glasses of wine that flows into your body like the water of life. To talk with strangers for hours, then think of them as friends on the way home. And then to wait for another day to come when we can catch up right where we’d left off in the world of Sabar, a peaceful place without the evergoing competition of the outside world.

Sabarism is a trend that brings human well-feeling, the joy of spending time together, laughing and relaxing without social glaze, back into fashion again.

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