Budapest is the perfect blend of architectural grandeur and non-stop nightlife - with enough history to boot. The Hungarian capital is also a wine tasting epicentre, and here you can sample bottles from the 22 ancient winemaking regions across the...
The Novel Wines team was honoured to be joined by winemaker Dr Endre Demeter for the last weekend of February. Demeter, who is one of the leading lights of Tokaj talent, introduced his wines to our Bath customers at Cork...
Furmint February is celebrated across the globe each year. The aim is to showcase and share experiences of the Furmint variety, the most important grape in Hungarian winemaking, which creates a whole host of diverse wines. We're excited to announce Wines...
Wine lovers, meet the brilliant Szent Donat winery from Hungary. 'The Essence of Balaton' is the strapline for Tamas Kovacs' wonderful family-run winery, based in the Lake of Balaton itself - Europe's second largest (but most beautiful) lake. Kovacs' wine...
Evening folks! Today we're showcasing a recent wine flight we did for one of our Silver Private Wine Tasting customers. At each of our tastings we try and showcase a wide range of styles so that everyone falls in love with something. However,...
Whether you're new to Hungarian wine or looking for some recommendations of what to try next, we're excited to show you six wines that are sure to please. Kardos Dry Furmint, Tokaj New to Hungarian wines? You should try the...
In April, Gyorgy and I visited Janos Bolyki's winery in Eger, Hungary. It was just a short visit as we were en-route to Budapest for the wine fair that evening after a couple of days' buying trip around Tokaj. We...
Last week we partnered up with the Turul Project to celebrate all things Hungarian food and wine. Hosted at the London Cooking Project in Battersea on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 October, the evenings featured an elegant five course menu...
Fresh, Chardonnay-style white wine from one of Hungary’s finest winemakers. Taste this brand new addition to our wine list. We’ve welcomed the new vintage of Kardos’ benchmark white wine to our list. The fruit was picked from 20 year old...
Gabor Kardos, the winemaker in Tokaj behind the fabulous Kardos wines, is planning to harvest 2-3 weeks early due to the high sugar content in his grapes following 2018’s Summer heatwave. “The crop is very healthy,” Gabor told us. “We...
Taste your way along the Danube with these wines from Austria, Hungary and beyond The Danube River, which runs through central and eastern Europe, is one of the best places to discover delicious wines for less. There are undiscovered gems...
Szent Donat winery, from Lake Balaton in Hungary, is one of our favourite wine producers for crisp, mineral styles of wine. So we were excited to taste their brand new Furmint single variety white wine from their 'Soil Series'. St....
