Pairing wine and food happens all the time, but perfect pairings are rare. Furmint is an extremely versatile grape variety, and it is proved with every pairing. While yesterday we presented an a stunning match of Furmint and tapas, now a far more exotic pairing is introduced: Furmint and Ebi…
Thanks God home delivery is still working in most countries – though social media is full of stories about couriers (leaving boxes on the doorstep for hours, escaping without signatures etc). Meanwhile wine professionals warn us not to start drinking too early, consume wine moderately.
Laurel is the name a wine & tapas bar and a fine dining restaurant. But it also refers to a plant, bay laurel (Laurus), because a famous Hungarian writer and phylosopher, Béla Hamvas had a book with the title Babérligetkönyv (Babér means bay leaf, in latin Laurus).
The grandiose wine competition took place in September, the results were announced not long ago. A total of 3,155 wines from 34 countries were tasted in Hong Kong at the Decanter Asia Wine Awards 2019.
The grandiose Asian wine exhibition is coming closer (12–14 November), and though this year fewer Hungarian wineries will participate, Tokaj will be represented.
We have had lunch at St Andrea Skybar in Budapest with Juliet Victor wines from Mád (Tokaj), and the food and wine pairings were so great that they should be taught at sommelier schools. 3 courses, 3 wines, infinite harmony.
The National Wine Competition is considered to be the most important national contest in Hungary, organized by the Board of National Wine Communities, the most important association of winemakers. The significance of the contest is clearly proved by the increase of entries: the number of entered samples has tripled from 2013 to 2019.
Hungary has collected a good number of medals this year at super rigorous International Wine Challenge: 16 commended, 14 bronze, 17 silver and 5 gold medals. On top of that we can celebrate 2 Trophy winners (the best of the gold winners): Patricius Estate from Tokaj for its 6 puttonyos Tokaji Aszú and Tornai Winery from Somló for…
The brand new „crown of Tokaj”, Juliet Victor wine estate was inaugurated only last year, but immediately became a big hit.
International Women’s Day is coming closer, thus why not celebrating with a fabulous dessert wine, which was selected a double gold winner by exclusively women wine experts at Japanese Sakura wine contest! Sakura Women’s Wine Awards 2019 has received 4326 entries from 34 countries, and only 6% of the samples could…