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This is the first blog about Hungarian wines in English language.
This is also probably the only entirely independent source about the subject matter in any language, therefore reviews can be negative sometimes, or indeed, often. I believe that only non-biased, straighforward opinion can contribute to the progress of Hungarian winemaking.
I used to rate the reviewed wines but I no longer give out scores. However, older posts may include scoring which method can be read here.
If you wish to contact me, just leave a comment or drop me a message to wineguide at budapestdailyreview.com.
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Whineguy – on the assumption that my email address doesn’t get published (!!!), please drop me a line from an anonymous address – to preserve the anonymity you crave. We need to do a beer – followed by a wine, perhaps? I’ll bring the bottle of red I owe you. If this approach doesn’t work for you, I have an alternative idea of getting the red to you – anonymously! I’ll look after the “rich” and “women” parts and promise to do them without success, as I am seemingly very good at that.
Hello Vineguy,
I don’t know how to get in contact with you other than commenting here – I hope you get my message and write me back.
We are running a website (www.BPphonebook.com) that provides information of Budapest for foreigners living in Hungary and tourist visiting the country. One of the site’s sections is titled “Taste of Hungary”. Here we are publishing traditional Hungarian food recipes. We thought it would be a good idea to publish reviews of Hungarian wines too.
As I was browsing on the Internet for such reviews I found your blog. I would like to ask your permission to use your articles on our site, signing the source of course.
If you agree to this or other kind of cooperation, please contact me on my email address!
Thank you!
Best regards:
Fruzsina Kohut
I like your blog. We have a new blog called Black Sea Wines at http://blackseawine.kolodkin.com. Hungarian wines are included. If you would like to exchange links, please let me know.
If you want to do wine tasting in Budapest, check out http://www.budapestwinetasting.com. The wine tasting is held in the 30 km long wine cellar labyrinth of Budapest. Very exceptional.
Hi!
I really enjoyed reading your blog, thanks! We are large group of Swedes (approx 14 people) going to Balatonboglár mid May to enjoy some nice Hungarian wine and food. We do these trips every year to different countries, and we decided to try Hungary this year. We like to do a couple of informal wine tastings, and we like the education part of it and to of course eat tasty food coupled with the right wine. Do you by any chance have any suggestions on good places to go for interesting and relaxed wine tasting (we are not too fond of very fruity wine, more minerals and crispiness, green apples etc) and any good local dinner places where we are heading? We are quite a large group so the place has to be able to make room for all of us…. Looking forward to hear from you.
Cheers Ida
Hi there,
I’m visiting Budapest for a week from 13 to 20 August, staying at the Hotel Atrium. My knowledge of wine is considerable – I work at lhexagone.nl sometimes and I once wrote an article for Decanter. But I have little knowledge of Bulgarian wine beyond Tokaij and the little that is written in Huw Johnson etc. It would be a pleasure to meet you and buy a bottle or two to share, based on your advice.
Fraser Bailey
Discovered DiVino on the first night – next to the St Stephen’s Basilica or whatever it’s called. Approximately 70 or 80 wines by the glass, all very good so far. And most of the wine makers feature in Johnson’s pocket guide. It seems to me that this place offers a large number of the Hungarian wines worth drinking – at very good prices.