Hungary
Warm continental
A central European producer of the sweet wines of Tokaj, Kékfrankos and the red blend Bull's Blood, with over twenty wine regions.
Overview
About Hungary
Hungary has 22 wine regions, from the volcanic hills of Tokaj in the north-east to Villány and Szekszárd in the south, and Lake Balaton in the west. Its wine history goes back to Roman times, and the sweet wines of Tokaj were prized by European courts.
It grows a wide mix of native and imported grapes. Furmint and Hárslevelű are the leading whites of Tokaj, and Kékfrankos, the local name for Blaufränkisch, leads the reds, including the Egri Bikavér of Eger.
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Hungary
The land
Climate & terroir
Climate
Warm continental
Warm summers and cold winters, with the Carpathians shielding it from the north. Lake Balaton and the great rivers moderate local conditions.
Terroir & soils
What the vines grow in
Very varied: volcanic soils in Tokaj, Eger and around Balaton, limestone and loess further south.
Go deeper
How the wines are classified
Hungarian wine follows the European PDO and PGI system, with named regions and sub-regions.
PDO (OEM)
Wine from a named region such as Tokaj, Eger or Villány, made with set grapes and methods.
PGI (OFJ)
Regional wine from a wider area, with more flexible rules.
Within Hungary
Regions
Balaton
The wine hills around Central Europe's largest lake, known for mineral white wines from volcanic basalt soils at Badacsony.
Eger
A baroque wine town in the Bükk foothills, home of the blend called Bull's Blood, with cellars carved into volcanic tuff.
Tokaj
A volcanic north-eastern region where autumn mist makes botrytis, the home of Furmint and of the sweet Tokaji Aszú.
What's grown here
Grapes
Grapes linked to Hungary or to a place within it. Each grape's page links back here.