Hungary Sites

Wine Tasting trips to the Lake Balaton area of Hungary.

Day 1 - Arrive in Budapest and transfer to the Hotel on the shores of Lake Balaton.

Day 2 - Vineyard tour - Badacsony
Visit to Heviz (Europe’s largest Thermal Spa)

Day 3 - Vineyard tour - Pannonhalma

Day 4 - Vineyard tour - Balatonfelvidek
Transfer to Budapest City Centre Hotel

Day 5 - Budapest City Tour
Transfer to Budapest airport for flight home.

From £395 for a 4 night stay Prices include airport transfers, 3 Star accommodation with buffet breakfast, buffet dinners, use of swimming pool, sauna, beach, transfers between hotel and vineyards and Budapest City Tour. Additional expense – flight and any single room supplements.

Bookings now being taken for 2010, contact us for more details.

Some more information about the wines of Hungary

The UK is Hungary’s third largest export market with sales increasing by around 47% from February 2008.
Taken into context Hungarian wine sales are still small in the UK and in fact such is the love of Hungarian wine by the home nationals very little wine ( 70 million litres ) is exported out of the country – just 25% of total production.

Over 70% of wine production is white although it has to be said historically full bodied red wines have been the most popular - certainly with the Hungarian people. The change to producing more white wines is due to the demand from the export market.

As a well known American wine journalist said:
“There are really only two kinds of wine, wines that taste as if they came from somewhere, and wines that taste as if they could come from anywhere.”
Hungary is no exception but it has to be said that for the first time the British public are now seeing the first Hungarian varieties on the supermarket shelves and the indigenous grapes appearing in more and more restaurants.

The key problem facing Hungarian wine producers over the coming years is selling the country – and creating an identity for its’ wine. By and large Hungarian wine remains undiscovered which makes life interesting for the wine taster. There could well be a perfect wine lurking out there that remains undiscovered.
So Hungarian wine producers need to make sure the marketing story is credible, the wine producers are serious and in it for the long term but more importantly the quality of the wine is good and consistent.

If you wish to experience the country and it's wines we would be pleased to advise you on a range of accommodation options ranging from budget Budapest city hotels through to superior health spa resorts at the following locations :-
BUDAPEST - Two Health Spa resort hotels plus ten other hotels scattered across this historical city – the Paris of the East
HEVIZ – Two Health Spa resort hotels within walking distance of Europe’s largest thermal spa.
PECS - Two hotels in Europe’s Capital of Culture in 2010
BALATONFURED – Two hotels on the shore of Lake Balaton – central Europe’s largest freshwater lake
BUKFURDO – Health Spa resort hotel
SARVAR – Health Spa resort hotel
With further hotels at SOPRON, KESZTHELY and GYOR

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