{"id":16511,"date":"2019-03-23T12:55:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=16511"},"modified":"2019-03-23T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T18:07:22","slug":"the-fourth-day-of-visiting-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/23\/the-fourth-day-of-visiting-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fourth Day of Visiting Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16514\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/032319a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16514\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16514\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/032319a-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/032319a-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/032319a.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00c1rvay Family Cellars in Tokaj, Hungary<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our fourth day in Hungary began with a visit to \u00c1rvay Family Cellars. As soon as we arrived we were greeted by family members who are very involved in the winemaking, vineyards and marketing of the \u00c1rvay<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>wines. The vineyards of 17 hectares are organic. The vineyards consist of Hungarian and international grapevines. Upon entering the tasting room, visitors will quickly see a large display of the rocks that have been found over the years in the vineyards. The family knows details of the rocks including the ones that have fossils. Later our discussion included the improvements to the Hungarian wine industry including the more recently produced good, food friendly, dry wines.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16515\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/032319b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16515\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16515\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/032319b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wine at T\u00f3th Ferenc in Eger, Hungary<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While we were excited to visit the next wine region of Hungary, we were sorry to leave Tokaj, a world renowned wine region that is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. However before long,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>we entered Eger another great wine region of Hungary. Our first winery to visit in Eger was T\u00f3th Ferenc. The winery was founded in 1983 beginning with six hectares. Today the owner prefers working in the vineyard and has a winemaker who is excited to make wines in the Eger region. After touring the winery and the cellars built in 2011 we went to an upper floor where we tasted several wines with the winemaker. Two of the special wines we taste were\u00a0Egri Bikav\u00e9r (Bull&#8217;s Blood) and Egri Le\u00e1nyka Superior 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Our day finished with a delicious five course meal at the Macok Restaurant located just outside of the Eger Castle walls where the legend of the Bull\u2019s Blood originated. True or not the legend is not only entertaining but fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>As we left the restaurant that night, we knew would be visiting Eger Castle the next day where we hoped to learn more about the Siege of Eger in 1552 and its connection with the legend of Bull\u2019s Blood wine.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Kathy and Terry<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"The Fourth Day of Visiting Hungary\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=16511\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our 4th day of visiting Hungary included one more winery in Tokaj and one in Eger. We also had dinner at a restaurant just outside Eger Castle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[4062,4074,4061,1400,88,98,3759],"class_list":["post-16511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-bulls-blood","tag-eger","tag-hungary","tag-tourism","tag-travel","tag-wine","tag-wineries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16511"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16521,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511\/revisions\/16521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}