wine festivals

May 29 '08

Badacsony Overshadows Buda in Pre-Festival PR War

With two competing wine festivals running in Budapest this weekend, wine lovers face a difficult choice. Thanks to the fairly useless, no doubt government-funded website (although at least it is in English) and the even less helpful member of...

May 08 '08

Have Yourself an Alcohol-Enhanced Weekend with Wine and Pálinka

You may have noticed that today is the kick off to the Pálinka Fesztivál held in the City Hall Park, which is quite different from the pálinka-soaked Sziget Fesztivál which will be held later this year. The event will...

Sep 07 '07

Hungarian Vintners, Festival Drinkers Whipsawed by Extreme Weather

As of sometime early this afternoon, the 16th Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival - this year's biggest gathering in Hungary of winemakers, drinkers and hangers-on - was half-over. But we can't yet tell you how it's going, because...

Jun 21 '07

A Refreshing Antidote to Your Summer Wine Tasting Fatigue

As we reported last week, the ongoing mania for wine tasting events in Hungary has reached critical proportions, leading at least us to suffer from terminal tasting fatigue. But since nothing exceeds like excess, we introduce the Second Miskolc...

Jun 01 '07

Millenáris Park Puts The Wine In Sunshine

Just a quick note (because wine festivals are a dime a dozen these days) that the annual gourmet wine, bubbly and cheese festival in Buda's lovely Millenáris Park kicked off last night and will be running until Sunday. You know...