Karádi-Berger Winery – Tokaj Region

Zsolt Berger switched a life of financial journalism in Budapest for winemaking in the Tokaj region, and hasn’t looked back. He owns this winery, in the village of Erdőbénye, with wife Szilvia Karádi, who hails from the region. Located in an old villa which once belonged to an Armenian wine merchant, the couple has painstakingly restored the building, creating this winery from scratch.

Karádi – Berger focuses on dry wines, like single varietal furmints from the Palandor and Narancsi vineyards. They are also one of the few wineries still regularly producing dry szamorodni, a wine which ferments under a layer of flor and is reminiscent of a fine Jura or a dry sherry.