In wine is truth - in Hungary also

During your stay in Hungary, don't miss the wine tasting from your programs. You can acquainted with the famous Hungarian wines, which won first prizes in a number of international competitions, in many restaurant of Budapest, at the wine festivals in September in every year or in the original wine cellars in the country-side.

In the historic milieu of the Castle District of Buda there is the House of Hungarian Wines (6 Szentháromság square, 1st district), established in 1996, which offer wine tasting program taking two hours. During the tasting a several-hundred-metre-long cellar labyrinth which holds 450 different types of quality wine from 22 historical wine regions in Hungary, the wine-expert guides the guests in the world of the Hungarian wines. You can choose among 50-55 sort of wine to taste. In Budapest Wine Society (59 Batthyány utca, 1st district), Prés Ház Wine Shop and Museum (10 Váci utca, 5th district), La Boutique des Vins (12 József Attila Street, 5th district), House of Wines (7 Jókai Square, 6th district), Le Sommelier (14 Régiposta Street, 5th district) or House of Historic Wines (XIV. Hungarian Agricultural Museum, Vajdahunyad Castle) you can enjoy the tasting of the "noble drinking" also.

At any time of the year you can wander from wine cellar to vineyard, tasting different vintages and learning about the production of renowned Hungarian wine such like Tokaji Aszú or Egri Bikavér, but before you go to visit the wine-cellar in country-side (for example Etyek, Szekszárd, Eger, Villány, Badacsony), you have to fix a date with the wine-producer. Some tourist-agency or restaurant or wine society (for example House of Hungarian Wines) in Budapest organize a daily or two-day's wine-tasting tour in the country, and during such kind of tour your knowledge about the kinds of Hungarian wine, the production of wine in Hungary and the famous wine-producing regions become more serious.