Area: 1797 hectares.
Climate: consolidated, with sub-mediterranean character, lot of sunshine, sheltered from northern wind.
Soil: basalt covered with clay, loess and sand.
Grape varieties, wines: Italian Riesling: most wide-spread - mild, soft acid, resembling bitter almonds in bouquet. In good vintages "Aszú" is made of it as well. Pinot Gris (Szürkebarát) - the most famous: aroma-full, warming, harmonious, round wine with high alcohol contents in this region. Kéknyelű - "upper-class vine" - good quality, but poor vintage because gets fertile hard. Discreet with spicy bouquet and noble elegance.
Climate: consolidated, with sub-mediterranean character, lot of sunshine, sheltered from northern wind.
Soil: basalt covered with clay, loess and sand.
Grape varieties, wines: Italian Riesling: most wide-spread - mild, soft acid, resembling bitter almonds in bouquet. In good vintages "Aszú" is made of it as well. Pinot Gris (Szürkebarát) - the most famous: aroma-full, warming, harmonious, round wine with high alcohol contents in this region. Kéknyelű - "upper-class vine" - good quality, but poor vintage because gets fertile hard. Discreet with spicy bouquet and noble elegance.
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Badacsony wine growing region
One of the most ancient wine growing regions in Hungary extending on roughly 1900 hectares on the northern coast of Lake Balaton.From Révfülöp to Szigliget, including the Tapolca basin, vine plantations of the basalt hills are part of this wine region. Vineyards here reach the forests half way up the hills.
Of all the wine regions around Balaton the ratio of vinelands is the largest here: it reaches 46% of the whole area. The landscape still retains the aspect of a wine region. In addition to Badacsony, remaining vineyards of Szent-György-hill, Gulács, Tóti-hill, Csobánc, Sabar-hill, Orsi-hill, Révfülöp, Balatonszepezd, Ábrahámhegy, Balatonrendes and Szigliget belong here.
The huge mass of water makes its equalizing effect felt even here; the ckimate is free from excesses and humidity is higher than average. Summer often lasting as long as October creates ideal conditions for the ripening of grapes.
There is a lot of sunshine and the rays refracted by the surface of the water greatly improve ripening conditions in the area. The volcanic base rock here is covered with a mixture of Pannonian sand and clay, which is compounded with basalt and basalt tuff. A particularity of the cone-frustum type basalt hills and mountains here is that wine is grown even on the northern slopes of the hills and parts of Badacsony Szent-György hill and Csobánc.
Another particularity of the landscape is that you find supporting walls built of basalt around plantations that locals call "bastions". Characteristically, vineries can be found in Badacsony while the majority of vineyards are elsewhere: on the fields and foothills around the hill.
Varieties of wines
Primarily kinds of white grapes are grown, of which the most significant are: Olaszrizling, Szürkebarát (Pinot Gris), Tramini, Muscat Ottonel, Rajnai rizling and Chardonnay. Red grapes amount to about 8% of total growth and characteristic kinds include Zweigelt, Kékfrankos, and Blaue Portugieser
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By train, from Deli station, with change.
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By car, on highway M7 to Balaton direction. Take exit at Szekesfehervar to Veszprem direction. Go along the northern shore of Lake Balaton
By plane : direct access to Balaton airport by Ryanair and Germanwings
By train, from Deli station, with change.
Check train schedule...
By car, on highway M7 to Balaton direction. Take exit at Szekesfehervar to Veszprem direction. Go along the northern shore of Lake Balaton
By plane : direct access to Balaton airport by Ryanair and Germanwings
