Neszmély wine growing region
The Neszmély wine growing region is located in the northern part of Transdanubia. It acquired this title in 1977. The wines grown here are usually reductive in character, dry, and freshly acidulous. Today white wines are typically represented by Chardonnay, Olaszrizling (Italian Riesling), Müller-Thurgau, Green Veltliner, Irsai Olivér, Cserszegi Fűszeres, Tramini and Ottonel Muscatel, but Sauvignon Blanc, Rhine Riesling, and Leányka (Maiden) are also beginning to gain ground. Moreover, one can still come across Ezerjó, which was grown extensively earlier. Blue grapes are represented by Kékfrankos, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir and Merlot, although rather as the basic material for rosé wines, because red wines are not typical of this region.
BorDóHáz in Tata: Originating from the 1880’s, this building, lately renovated in its original beauty, is the headquarters of Neszmély Borút Egyesület (Neszmély Wine Route Association). With a capacity of 50, it is an ideal venue for lectures, training courses, wine-tasting, garden parties, and other social events. Here you can also purchase the wines produced in the wine growing region.
Wine tour in Neszmély: Participants will see the sights of the settlement accompanied by an expert tour guide familiar with the place, who will tell them about its history and other facts of interest. The tour also includes the tasting of cheese, bread, and wine. At the end of the walk they can taste local produce in a row of wine cellars called Sertésvölgy. Here the owners of the cellars will tell them about the cellars, the process of making wine, and the wines they serve for tasting.
Ásári Woman Investor
Every wine has a story. For some it is shorter, for some it is longer, for some it is more ordinary, for some it is twisty. Ászári Asszonyfekteő's - beyond dispute - belongs to the latter.
Ászárt, one of the important settlements of the Neszmély wine region, from which Pannonhalma and Mór are also only a stone's throw away, has been inhabited for centuries by hard-working grape and wine-producing peoples. Its properties are excellent, as they say, God also created it for growing grapes. This is how the Esterházys of Csákvár also thought, who, like the lords of the countryside, created a model vineyard and cellar here in the 19th century. in the second half of the century. The XX. In the 19th century, history rushed through Ászár as well, the Esterházys disappeared, but the cellar remained, and wine was added to it year after year.
Sour cherry Lelke liqueur (Schrank liqueur)
The former liquor factory in Esztergom occupied an important place in the history of the Hungarian food industry, and its product is Meggy-Lelke, which has been a concept for the past two centuries. The liqueur owes its reputation to excellent ingredients, expertise, experience and humble work. By the beginning of the 19th century, the food industry had strengthened in Esztergom, and the liquor factory founded in 1840 by Béla Schrank and Ödön was noted as one of its branches. The plant's products have been competitive on the domestic and international markets for decades.
The brand name Meggy-lelke has since become a technical term in the liquor industry, several people have tried to "make it after". Panyolai Szilvórium Rt. was asked to revise the drink of Béla Schrank and his brother Ödön according to the original recipe, adjusted to the expectations of our time and the needs of today's consumers, and to manufacture the product. As a result of long, persistent work and exemplary cooperation, the production of the much-loved liqueur was restarted in 2015, and its popularity has been unbroken ever since.