Budapest with Tokaj Experience

HIGHLIGHTS 

Discovering Tokaj wine region, the part of UNESCO world heritage | Exclusive dinner cruise on the Danube | Vineyard walk with terroir products’ picnic | Cellar labyrinth visit with wine tasting | Tasting of award winning wines | Exploring the diversity of Furmint grape | Experiencing the magic of volcanic soils | Budapest sightseeing | Small group, personalized service | Wine a'More's wine tour guide

PROGRAMME

Day 1. | We meet at your Hotel at 6 pm, and depart to the quay for our river cruise. We enjoy our food and the splendid scenery of evening Budapest. An a’ la carte candlelight dinner is served on board with the finest food, selected wines and live music. 

Day 2. | After breakfast  we are going to have our sightseeing tour by bus. Beside Mathias Church, Fishermen’s Bastion, we are going to stroll along the Danube Promenade and the shopping street of Váci utca. Our tour will end in the Market Hall, with some time for wandering around the fruit, vegetables, spices and meat shops. We will have lunch in the Market Hall, tasting some local foods. After dinner we depart to the historic wine region of Tokaj. After a 3 hours' journey, we arrive at a tiny village in Tokaj wine region to our hotel. We are going to check-in and have a cellar visit with wine tasting and dinner. We are going to explore the local grapes, taste the first dry varietals than continue our journey to botrytised sweet wine world with some late harvest and Aszú wines.

Day 3. | To kick off the day, we head to Mád village to the heart of the Tokaj region, where we are going to explore one of the region’s most extensive cellar system. The history of the wine estate started with a one hectare birthday present from mother to son. Today the winery cultivates vines in  25 hectares.  The winery focuses on the different terroir of Mád village. Their cellar is one of the oldest one in the region, with some sections dating back as far as the 16th century. A unique cellar complex of almost 2 km long flights, 108 branches on 3 levels is waiting for us for an adventurous wine tasting in the cellar labyrinth. We try to find our way out while tasting some award winning wines with the guidance of the winemaker. We are going to do a little exercise afterwards, grab our picnic basket filled with local artesian products, and climb up to the hill for our second wine tasting and picnic lunch. One of the most exciting vineyard walk leads to the top of the 1st growth, Szent Tamás vineyard. We continue our experimental learning of grape varieties with some dry Furmints. Furmint grape is the dominant and best known variety of Tokaj. Due to its unique characteristics it is the perfect base for both dry and sweet Tokaj wines. It is a local type, ripens late, and has high acidity and sugar levels. It is especially susceptible for Botrytis Cinerea, the noble rot, that is essential for the development of Aszú berries.
We say good-by to Tokaj and head back to Budapest. We arrive to the capital in the late afternoon hours.