On this weekend: 27th Budapest Wine Festival – Buda Castle

According to Funzine, considering the beauty of the location that gives home to the festival, you would think sipping on a glass of fine wine couldn’t be any more special. Well, wait and see!

Budapest Wine Festival is awaiting wine-loving visitors with an impressive line-up of events related to culture and gastronomy once again. Attendees can enjoy the gorgeous panorama day and night while tasting a glass of high-quality wine produced by more than 200 Hungarian and foreign wineries. This year Balaton wineries get into the spotlight, but the event offers insight to the region’s gastronomy and culture as well. The program called “Balaton NOW” aims at proving that Balaton’s dazzling life doesn’t end by the arrival of autumn.

Wine University

Prior to the festival, wine-lovers can participate at courses provided by the Wine University, held just one week before the event takes place. Learn more about well-known Balaton grape varieties, get to know some exceptional wineries and take part at the wine tasting, too.

Location: MOM Cultural Center (18 Csörsz utca, Buda), date: 3 September.

Wine Tasting Events with Professional Guidance

Are you curious about interesting behind-the-scenes secrets related to wine making? Budapest Wine Festival presents you with great wine pairings, that is, two wine types with a slight difference in their character. You’ll get to learn what makes them unique: the importance of vineyards, barrels and the year of the harvest. There will be several wineries at the event which offer wine pairings, to find out more about them, please check the event’s booklet!

VinAgora Taste of Hungary: The Country’s Best Wine

VinAgora Taste of Hungary is all about carefully selected wines: the event aims at introducing and representing the colourful Hungarian wine culture to all visitors, locals and foreigners alike. The festival offers more than VinAgora’s award-winning wine: guests can learn more on different grape types, local specialties and many more.

As a novelty, you can try the festival’s online application, Vinometer which guides you to the most excellent wineries. Use it for thematic wine-tasting tours, try and evaluate the suggested winery’s products for a chance to win a bottle of the most popular ones each day!

Concerts and dance performances

Once you are there, you’ll discover 4 stages where Budapest Wine Festival’s concerts and other performances take place. World music’s most popular Hungarian representatives, as well as folk and jazz musicians will take the stage to entertain the wine-loving crowd; the line-up includes Kéknyúl, Kiscsillag, Antonia Vai, Richter Ambrus, and Boban Marcovic’s son, Marco, just to mention a few names.

The Harvest Festival is another program you should definitely see, and as every year, it will be followed by a folk gala thanks to Fonó Buda Music House.

The colourful crowd kicks off the party at 12.30 PM on 9 September, at Szentháromság tér. It’s going to be one of the most interesting acts taking place at Budapest Wine Festival, don’t miss out!