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Barcelona meets Villányi Franc!

Hungarianwines.eu — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:16:09 +0000

Cabernet Franc tasting of Villány and Penedés

After Vinisud in Montpellier, France, the Spanish wine connoisseurs will have a chance to taste some stunning 100% Cabernet Franc wines from Villány, the so called Villányi Franc wines. Villány producers had been fans of Bordeaux grapes for a while, when they realized that Cabernet Franc gives especially beautiful examples on Villány soil. Then came Michael Broadbent, renowned wine expert, former director of London auction house, Christie’s wine department, tasted Villányi Franc and said: „Cabernet Franc has found its home in Villány”.

Penedés – more than cava

The wine region south-west of the capital of Catalonia, called Penedés is most famous for cava production, more than 80% of Spanish cava is made here. However, Catalan people are born connoisseurs, they love cava, but they equally love still wines, therefore dinners tables get heavy with red wine bottles when the meat courses arrive.

The tasting on 22 March will offer 100% Cabernet Franc wines from these two regions, Villány and Penedés.

A wine store with history

The tasting will take place in Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, in the agglomeration of Barcelona, a place which is known the „Capital of Cava”. Here there is a wine shop called Cal Feru, which has been running on the very same place for more than 80 years! Xavi Roig represents the fourth generation of the founding family, and the ambitious wine expert holds full house tastings in various topics regularly. Xavi Roig is among the best sommeliers of Spain, and he is glad to taste Villányi Franc wines. As he said, sweet wines of Tokaj sell well in their wine store, but Hungarian red is not included in their portfolio yet.

Villányi Franc wines to be tasted

Vylyan Villányi Franc, 2015
Gere & Weninger Villányi Franc, 2015
Bock Fekete-hegy Selection Villányi Franc, 2014
Gere Tamás & Zsolt Villányi Franc, 2012
Kővilla Válogatás Villányi Franc, 2012

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“Exciting presentation, surprisingly great wines”

Hungarianwines.eu — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:06:45 +0000

Villányi Franc and other Villány varieties at Vinisud

VINISUD ended yesterday in Montpellier, and for the first time Hungary was represented within Wine Mosaic section. On the stand Dorka Homoky from Tállya (Tokaj wine region) showed her exciting artisan Furmint and Hárslevelű wines, and we presented Villányi Franc – 100% Cabernet Franc wines from Villány. At the presentation we gave a brief introduction about Hungary, Dorka Homoky presented her Tállya wines, and we presented some rare indigenous grapes like Csóka and Járdovány, along with Portugieser and of course with a Villányi Franc at the end. Elizabeth Gabay MW also included some Hungarian rose wines in her presentations. The audience loved the presentation and the wines, and visitors had high opinion about the wines as well. Thanks for all the buyers and other professionals, who visited our stand, and of course we are happy to supply more information about the wines. The next important event for us is ProWein in Düsseldorf!

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Hungarian Wines tomorrow and after in Beijing, China

Hungarianwines.eu — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:30:50 +0000

The capital of China is the home of the 1st BRWC, Belt & Road Wine and Spirit Competition. Belt & Road refers to the ancient Chinese Silk Road, which connected nations and was a major trade route. Belt also refers to Fangshan wine region, where there is a belt of young, ambitious wineries. Nowadays Asia is the land of dynamic changes regarding wines and spirits, and this event – a conference and a wine competition – aims to connect the Silk Road states. India, Izrael, Japan, South Korea, Lebanon, Gergia, Armenia are all represented and of course the main focus is on Chinese wines.

This huge country is the biggest comsumer of red wines, and the consumers are more and more conscious. The era when any wine from Bordeaux could be sold for any price is over. Now the online wine merchants have proved that fine wines should not be extraordinary expensive, thus retailers had to adust to this new, transparent system. Thanks to Internet, Chinese people cannot be fooled any more. And it seems that the era of buying wines only as gift is also over, young Chinese often drink wine regularly, because they like it, and because they consider it healthier then for example the local spirit called baiju. Now they are open for new wines from new wine regions. French is still the number 1 imported wine and probably it will remain for a long time, but other nations will soon have more chance to show their talent.

BRWC is accompanied by an exhibition, where Hungarian wines are displayed as well due to an importing company called Morgan Star Group. Three wine regions are represented: Tokaj, Villány and Eger. Hétszőlő from Tokaj is highly
recommended as well as Vylyan from Villány and Gróf Buttler from Eger.

The wine exhibition is on 10–12 October, so if you happen to stay in Beijing, do not miss BRWC and the Hungarian pavilion!

More info: www.aws-silkroute.com

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