Great festivals and markets in 2024 in the Tokaj Wine Region
Events, ExperienceWondering about the best time to visit the Tokaj Wine Region? Hope this helps you choose when to come to this beautiful volcanic land of fine wines and intimate venues. Artists and winemakers, culinary wizards and performers spice the Tokaj…
Aszú, Artisans and Advent in the Tokaj Wine Region
Events, Experience, NewsAdvent, Aszú and artisans. Advent brings a time to look inside, be quiet and to prepare for sharing the wealth around us. What better way to explore the physical side than with local producers who create high quality products perfect for gifts and treats and taste Tokaji Aszú with the winemakers in vineyards, cellars and bistros! 2023 sees an explosion in smaller Advent events at intimate cafes and bistros as well as wineries. Crafts and handcrafts in the region seem to be booming too as people scale up from friends and family to small-scale production :) So an artisan experience too for sure!
Celebration of the first Incredible Edible planting
Events, Experience, Incredible Edible, NewsWhat a wonderful Saturday! Stone Soup at the market in the morning to build - and feed - the community, then planting and painting, music and mushrooms, bikes and baskets, ceramics and slackline, cheese and cheer, horses and homemade apple juice. Joy and generations. People happy to be celebrating spring and the start of the Incredible Edible project together. Singing them into creation.
First Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region planting – celebration of spring and new Sensory Herb Garden at Sárospatak Gallery
Events, Experience, Incredible Edible, NewsOn Saturday 15 April we celebrate spring and the first First Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region planting into the new Sensory Herb Garden at the Gallery (Sárospataki Képtár) in the Castle District. This is a herb garden for all to discover and share – the first step of a wider project to bring more edible, medicinal and wildlife-friendly plants to the Tokaj Wine Region.
Download Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region draft presentation
Experience, Incredible Edible, NewsIf you'd like to find out more detail about the Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region project and first planting event, feel free to download the draft presentation in Hungarian (with Appendix in original source languages - Hungarian, English and French).
Info about Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region project and first planting event here.
Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region – the beginnings
Experience, Incredible Edible, NewsA vision of fruits, nuts and vegetables growing all around the Tokaj Wine Region for all to share. The seed was planted! What an easy way to bring people closer to healthy, seasonal, free local food as well as to each other, nature and the local…
A year of festivals and markets in the Tokaj Wine Region – top festivals in 2023
Events, ExperienceArtists and winemakers, culinary wizards and performers bring the Tokaj Wine Region alive at the great events and festival that form the calendar of events every year. Some favourites here, starting with the heartbeat of the region's festivals,…
Original farmers’ markets and artisan markets in the Tokaj Wine Region
Events, Experience, Incredible Edible, NewsI love markets - and broadly see a few types. The traditional farmers' markets where local people and farmers bring their surplus to share, to sell, seasonal produce from their gardens, plots and farms nearby. Fresh eggs and milk, yoghurts and cheeses, sausages and hams. Think of the typical lively village market scene, a bustling marché in France, a mercato in Italy, a mercado in Spain. Here in Hungary, the piac, and in the Tokaj Wine Region, we still have four thriving original markets (Abaújszűntó, Sárospatak, Sátoraljaújhely, Szerencs) plus a number of small town/village market days celebrated throughout the region.
And then we have the new farmers's markets, where modern farmers and artisans bring their wares direct to the customer. Direct contact. Communication. Often with higher levels of animal welfare, environmentally friendly philosophies, artisan closer to nature. Slower. Reinventions of the original markets. Let's discover them.
Tokaj Wine Region experts – books on wine and wineries, food and architecture, photos and design, tastings, tours and more – from architecture to Zéta
Experience, NewsIn recent years we've seen several excellent books specialising in various areas of the wine region from architecture to vineyards, Furmint to food, so i thought I'd bring them together here. And I'd like to introduce you to a couple of the absolute experts in the region.
I want to bring them together in one place and recognise their unique and (often playfully, cooperatively) evolving contributions to the renaissance in the Tokaj Wine Region. They are pursuing their loves and curiosities, creating unique, niche projects that help us explore our historic wine region in various ways. To introduce approachable experts whose time (tours) and publications (print and online) can deepen your experience of this wonderful wine region.
Tokaj Wine Region experts – tour guides and websites on wine and wineries, food and tastings, photos and design
Experience, NewsThere are a number of wonderful websites and people specialising in various areas of the Tokaj Wine Region (vineyards, wineries, wines, tastings, food, architecture, history) so i thought I'd bring them together here. And I'd like to introduce you to a couple of the absolute experts in the region. They are pursuing their loves and curiosities, creating unique, niche projects that help us explore our historic wine region in intriguing ways. Let me introduce some experts who you're more likely to meet in person or read online to discover Tokaj to deepen your experience of this wonderful wine region.
Tokaj Wine Region artists – in Sárospatak
Experience, NewsWe are priviliged that several incredible down-to-earth and head in the clouds loving artists live and work among us in Sárospatak and the wider region - many of them members of the group Patak csoport. Active in their social consciencsce and community building around performances and exhibition openings in Sárospatak over the last 20, 30, 40, 50 years. Also two enormous murals, wall art on a huge, brave scale one a nursery, one on a block residential flats in the town centre.
Leading winemaking, wine lover organisations in the Tokaj Wine Region
Events, Experience, NewsMany citizens and winemakers of the towns and villages in this historic World Heritage Tokaj Wine Region have come together to found their own local winemaking organisation, and several produce their own community village wine. These forums fostering cooperation between winemakers at a local level and are often instrumental in organising great festivals and events. Leading (winemaking) organisations in the Tokaj Wine Region include:
Discover Tokaj Wine Region highlights in 2016!
Events, Experience, In the press, NewsOur 2016 calendar of events is rapidly filling up - and the main festivals are already in the diary! So, it's easy to plan your visit to our vibrant wine region.
Tokaj wine region highlights – “in Budapest” for 2016!
Events, Experience, NewsNew on Tokajwineregion.com in 2016?
Jack Frost decorates Sárospatak!
Experience, NewsA morning walk over the bridge transported me to fairy land. Where trees were painted most delicately, the waves seemingly froze before my eyes as the ice crept
Sárospatak’s wine bar- A Boros Borbár
Experience, NewsSuperb range of (mainly) Tokaji wines, many BTG, regular wine tastings plus tasty nibbles. Add very friendly staff, good coffee and elegant setting - and you have a great place where it is a pleasure to savour a glass or your favourite, or discover something new!
A peek into Tokaj in Slovakia
Experience, NewsA flying visit to taste wines of small passionate producers in Tokaj, Slovakia, some 15 km from Sátoraljaújhely. Fantastic!