Great festivals and markets in 2024 in the Tokaj Wine Region

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Wondering 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

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Advent, 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

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What 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.
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First Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region planting – celebration of spring and new Sensory Herb Garden at Sárospatak Gallery

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On 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.

A year of festivals and markets in the Tokaj Wine Region – top festivals in 2023

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Artists 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,…
Birthday cake for Tokaj Hegyalja Piac artisan market at Sarga Borház Restuarant on the Disznoko estate

Original farmers’ markets and artisan markets in the Tokaj Wine Region

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I 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.
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Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region – Presentations

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Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region presented at: Slow Food - Terra Madre Day, Sárospatak; Winemakers' tasting - Tarcal Research Institute; I Furmint Summit; tasting in Tállya. On 15 April 2023 we will transform a large empty bed in front of the Sárospataki Képtár into 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. Fruit and nut trees and bushes, herbs and vegetables, insect and bird-friendly plants in public spaces that strengthen our link to food, nature and our environment, reinforce and develop our communities and boost the local economy.
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Leading winemaking, wine lover organisations in the Tokaj Wine Region

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Many 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:
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Celebrating 20 years of Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape – UNESCO World Heritage

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Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape was inscribed among the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage in 2002. To give you information about why and how, I thought the UNESCO site can show the wine region's long history, a fusion of man and nature, land and landscape.. Also includes a link to the management plan (in Hungarian) which shows the direction for the Tokaj Wine Region.
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Happy birthday to you … dear market, Happy birthday to you!

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Wow, time flies! It's already seven years since the first Tokaj-Hegyalja Market and we arrived early to set everything up, to welcome the market goers and then see who would arrive. Who was curious about local artisans? Well, as it turned out, plenty of people! Many friends, friends of friends and other locals plus visitors to the Tokaj Wine Region
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Discover Tokaj Wine Region highlights in 2016!

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Our 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.

Harvest festivities throughout the region in late September…

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Celebrating the grapes, the places and, most importantly, community in the Tokaj wine region
Nearly home! Bringing in the aszú berries during the race

Running through vineyards

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Runs are becoming ever more popular in the Tokaj wine region - 2 excellent opportunities to fly through the harvest vineyards
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Fusion – Mád Furmint Festival

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Founded on long-standing harvest traditions, Mád Furmint Festival is spiced with new ideas, including the top-notch Mád Circle tasting - all about Furmint

The magic of Erdőbénye – Bor, Mámor… Bénye

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Ever since the first festival, I have cherished this August festival as an absolute highlight of the year in the Tokaj wine region, Bor, Mámor... Bénye.
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Zemplén Festival

When I first arrived in Hungary - many years ago! - one of my classes was at Antenna Hungária, the main digital communications company at the time. A gift

Wine Weekend in late July!

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Wine, wine, wine! Two great events at opposite end of the Tokaj wine region the weekend of 24-5th July! If you're lucky enough to be in Sárospatak or Tállya
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Night of the Museums 2015

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Ever wondered what Sárospatak castle looks like by torchlight? Or been curious about communion bread? Perhaps you have always wanted to jump a fire? Well, you can - if you visit the castles, museums, galleries and synagogues of the Tokaj wine region for Night of the Museums (Múzeumok éjszakája) held close to St John's eve and midsummer.
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Concerts in June

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As warm summer days arrive, what could be better than listening to live music with friends - and perhaps a glass of chilled Furmint - at outdoor concerts?