Our Wineries
We present these stories through daily wine tastings in our cellar, and the wines we sell in our shop (and on this site). We work with winemakers who respect their terroir and the local traditions. We also focus on smaller wineries doing great things with minimal intervention. Our wine selection reflects our fascination with Hungary’s native grape varieties, some of which are only grown on a few hectares.
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Sopron Region

Steigler Winery
Founded in 2015 by Bálint Lőrinczy, Steigler is an exciting addition to the winemaking scene in the Sopron region. Just across the border from Austria, near Lake Fertő, winemaking here dates back to the Celts. The region has a noticeably German-character, with its wines sharing some similarities to the wines of Burgenland.
Winemaker Tamás Varga has 21 hectares (52 acres) of organically farmed vineyards to work with. Steigler’s vineyards are located on some of Sopron’s best slopes, including the Steiger, Frettner, and Spern Steiner.
Etyek Region
Hernyák Estate
The Hernyáks are an extraordinary family in the Etyek wine region. They are an ethnically-Hungarian family, originally from the Vojvodina region in former Yugoslavia. They immigrated to Hungary in a spur-of-the-moment decision—just with 200 Deutsche Marks in their pockets—in the early 1990s to avoid the bloody wars in Yugoslavia. Valéria and Laci Hernyák founded their winery in 1993, and their son Tomi now works with them as a winemaker. They initially started their business in Etyek as a distillery, as they had already worked with making palinka back in Yugoslavia.


Szentesi Winery
Szentesi is one of Hungary’s biggest champions when it comes to re-discovering old grape varieties, and bringing them back into the vineyard and into the glass. His passion is researching ancient grape varieties (which mostly died out during the phylloxera scourge in the late 19th century), and then acquiring rare vine cuttings from the research institute to plant in his vineyards. He has done this with dozens of varieties, which he then makes experimental small quantities of wine with—magical re-incarnations of ancient, Hungarian varietals which have been (nearly) lost to history.
Pannonhalma Region
Cseri Winery
The Cseri family’s winery is located in Pannonhalma, a lesser-known, but up-and-coming region in northwestern Hungary. The region is Hungary’s smallest, with less than 1,500 acres of vineyards. It is best known for its Benedictine archabbey, founded in 996. The Medieval building sits atop of a hill, commanding the landscape when you drive into the area. Most people solely associate Pannonhalma wine with the renowned winery located within the abbey.

Szekszárd Region

Sebestyén Winery
The Sebestyén Winery is a 30-acre family estate run by siblings, Csaba and Csilla Sebestyén. Csaba founded the family winery while Csilla was in Dublin working as a sommelier in a two-star Michelin restaurant. After a few years she returned to Hungary and joined her brother in the family winery. Her international experience helped the winery shift its focus from making wines with international varieties, rather to local varieties.
Vida Family Wine Estate
The Vida family has 20 hectares of land, divided among five vineyard locations in Szekszárd, one of Hungary’s prime wine regions which is known for its big spicy reds, including Bull’s Blood. Péter Vida Sr. made his first Kadarka secretly and entered it in a local wine contest under the name of his father. His wine won the competition, and ever since then he has not been hiding his wines.

Balatonfüred-Csopak Region

Szent Donát Estate
The Kovács family has deep roots at Lake Balaton and the nearby Káli Basin region, having been involved in making wine there for centuries. They founded the Szent Donát Estate in 1994, located in Csopak, a lovely village on the northern side of the lake (where they also have a restaurant). The whole family is involved in running the winery and its about 15 hectares of vineyards, with Tamas Kovács—the next generation—taking the lead as winemaker. There is minimal intervention during the winemaking process, and since 2015 Szent Donát has been officially organic.
Tokaj Region
Gizella Winery
Gizella Winery is named after winemaker/owner László Szilágyi’s grandmother. Laszló (Laci) took the helms of the family winery in 2005, and has really focused on making clean and elegant wines, which are taught after in Hungary. Gizella’s estate is 19 hectares, spread among 12 vineyards in Tarcal, Bodrogkeresztúr, and Mád. He has also been working to reconstruct some of his old terraced vineyards, like the Szil-Völgy vineyard (which was first mentioned in historical documents in 1612).


Erzsébet Winery
The Erzsébet Winery is one of Tokaj’s leading small wineries. It’s a true family-affair, run by siblings Hajnalka and Miklós Prácser and their parents. While Hajni sells the wine (and educates visitors on Tokaj), Miki is busy in the mould-covered cellar making the wine, and their parents (Miklós Sr. and Erzsébet) reign over the vineyards, which are located on some of the best grand cru vineyard sites in the region.
Both siblings are well-traveled, but decided to remain in their hometown to focus on making top-notch wine and build the family business.
Szent Benedek Winery
Szent Benedek’s winemaker, József Ádam, aims to show the diverse volcanic soils of the vineyards around the top Tokaj towns of Tállya and Mád.
This small family-owned winery is located in a 17th century villa in the village of Tállya, with an enchanting old mould-covered cellar. Ádam is a winemaker with passionate ideas about his work, and what a Tokaj wine should be.


Karádi-Berger Winery
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 his 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
Béres Winery
Béres is a well-known family name in Hungary. Before getting into the wine business, Dr. Béres developed the “Béres drops” (Béres csepp), a popular multivitamin that has also made it to the “Hungaricum” list, a list which names the most important Hungary products.
The Béres family founded their winery in 2003. They have 45 hectares of vineyards, and an average annual production of 100,000 bottles.

Eger Region

St. Andrea Winery
St. Andrea Winery and its father-son winemaking team— György Lőrincz Sr. and Jr.—must have won every wine award that exists in Hungary. Since founding the winery in 2002, the family has become arguably the top winery in the Eger region, and several of their wines are considered to be iconic labels in Hungary.
Although St. Andrea grows around twenty grape varieties, they put most of their passion and efforts into their blends: Egri Bikavér (“Bull’s Blood”) and Egri Csillag (“Star of Eger”).
Böjt Winery
László and Éva Böjt received a small vineyard plot as compensation after the fall of Communism, using it to found this winery in 1993. Located in the village of Ostoros, four kilometers from the city of Eger in northeastern Hungary, this is a relatively cool climate, and partially volcanic, wine region.
Since 2016 Gergő and Boglárka, their son and daughter, have taken the lead and have been running the winery, producing outstanding wines which are great representations of the Eger terroir


Havas & Timár Winery
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 his 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
Tóth Ferenc Winery
Ferenc Tóth—usually referred to as Feri bácsi, or “Uncle Frank”—was born and raised in Eger, and now has nearly seven decades of harvests under his belt. Tóth made his first Bikavér (Bull’s Blood) at the age of 16.
But under the Communist regime, he wasn’t allowed to be a winemaker. Instead he worked in construction, but always made wine on the side.

Villány Region

Gere Winery
Attila Gere is an iconic figure of Hungary’s wine scene. He established the Gere Winery just after the regime change in 1991. Gere is not only one of the pioneers of quality winemaking in Hungary after the change of regimes, but he is also a pioneer in Hungarian wine tourism. During the same year that Gere founded his winery, he also established Hungary’s first winery hotel.
Now Gere is synonymous with the Villány region, and Villány is synonymous with Gere. Gere was named Winemaker of the Year in 1994, a prestigious award in Hungary
Heumann Winery
Erhard and Evelyne Heumann are a German/Swiss couple who were led by fate to switch careers and settle in Villány to make wine. After Evelyne’s father travelled to Villány and ended up buying some vineyards, the Heumanns started making wine there in 1993, bottled their first professional wine in 2003, and have steadily been building on their wine business since then.
What started as a hobby is now a full-time job, with both of them devoted to the success and quality of the winery.


Malatinszky Winery
Csaba Malatinszky started his career in wine as a sommelier, working in several of Budapest’s top restaurants in the 1990s. He founded his winery in 1997 and has been fully organic since 1999 (certified organic in 2009).
Malatinszky’s portfolio of older vintages is one of the things that makes his cellar notable.
Riczu Tamás Winery
Tamás Riczu is a big advocate for organic farming and vegan wine—“it just tastes better,” he told us. He has been making wine in the region for 17 years now, first working with other wineries, but now on his own seven hectare estate, located on his Akasztófa vineyards in Siklós.
Siklós (which was known as Serena in the Roman era) dates back to prehistoric times, with a 13th-century castle looming over the town.

Zala Region

Bussay Winery
The Bussay Winery is located in the Zala region, which is in the far southwestern corner of Hungary. It’s one of Hungary’s smallest and least-known regions.
Much of the region, including the Bussay Winery, straddles the Croatian and Slovenian borders, and the River Mura moderates its climate. The Busy Winery is located in the Csörnyeföld village, on the border of Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia.
Somló Region
Kolonics Winery
Károly Kolonics’s family goes back several generations in the Somló area. He has a reverence to this terroir, which is evident in his textbook Somló style wines. They are rich, full-bodied, and waxy, perfectly reflecting Somló’s volcanic terroir with minerality, saltiness, and concentrated flavors.
Kolonics grows Olaszrizling, Furmint, Juhfark, and Hárslevelű on 9 hectares of mostly in thick basalt crumble soil vineyards.
