The Winery Bolyki of Eger

Winery Bolyki
The winery offers 34 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 19 of the estates of Eger.
It is located in Eger

The Winery Bolyki is one of the world's great estates. It offers 34 wines for sale in of Eger to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Bolyki wines

Looking for the best Winery Bolyki wines in Eger among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Bolyki wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Bolyki wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Bolyki

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Bolyki

How Winery Bolyki wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of savoyard matafans, lamb curry with coconut milk or macaroonade from sète.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Bolyki

On the nose the red wine of Winery Bolyki. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or smoke and sometimes also flavors of earthy, blackberry or blueberry.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Bolyki

  • 2019With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.98/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.81/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.76/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.65/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Bolyki.

  • Merlot
  • Kékfrankos
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Zweigelt
  • Blauburger
  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Eger

Eger, in northeastern Hungary, is a wine region best known for its Egri Bikavér wine, popularly known as "Bull's Blood". Although Sweet, white Tokaji remains unrivaled as Hungary's most famous wine overall, Bikavér (Bull's Blood) is surely the country's most famous red. The style – a Complex blend of several dark-skinned grapes – was first made in the late 19th Century, in Szekszard (200 kilometers/130 miles southwest of Eger). It rose to international fame in the 1970s, when the state-owned Egervin winery monopolized production of the style, and successfully promoted it on export markets.

The grapes that go into the robust Bikavér blend are Kadarka and Kekfrankos (typically the majority components), Zweigelt, Blauburger, Kekmedoc, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Pinot Noir. Wine laws introduced in 2005, just after Hungary joined the European Union, state that each of these varieties should be used to some extent in all Bikavér wines, and that none of them should constitute more than 50 percent of the Final blend. Good-quality Bikaver is Deep, purple-crimson in Color, with softish tannins a middleweight Body and plummy, Spicy aromatics. Eger has a long history of wine marketing success, having shipped wines around Central Europe since the 13th Century.

The greatest interruption to its prolific wine output occurred when the Ottoman Turks invaded Hungary in the 14th Century; their Sharia law forbade the production and consumption of wine. When the Ottoman forces reached the town of Eger, they met with such fierce resistance that they thought the local people must have been strengthened with the blood of bulls (bikavér). And so a wine legend came into being. White wines are made in Eger vineyards, although they rarely rival their red counterparts in terms of general appeal.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Bolyki

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Bolyki

How Winery Bolyki wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of spaghetti neapolitan style, mussels with chicken or quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Bolyki

  • 0With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Bolyki.

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Blauburger

The top white wines of Winery Bolyki

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Bolyki

How Winery Bolyki wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of pasta with tuna, real swiss fondue or tuna, pepper and tomato quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Bolyki

On the nose the white wine of Winery Bolyki. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Bolyki

  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.82/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.64/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.49/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.49/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Bolyki.

  • Királyleányka
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Hárslevelű
  • Szürkebarát

The word of the wine: Malvasia

Name given locally to various grape varieties, notably pinot gris (Pays nantais) and vermentino (Provence and Corsica).

The top pink wines of Winery Bolyki

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Bolyki

How Winery Bolyki wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef with mustard or duck legs with confit potatoes.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Bolyki

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Bolyki. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, citrus fruit or red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Bolyki

  • 2019With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.46/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Bolyki.

  • Kékfrankos
  • Merlot

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

The top sweet wines of Winery Bolyki

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Bolyki

How Winery Bolyki wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Bolyki

On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Bolyki. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Bolyki

  • 0With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Bolyki.

  • Hárslevelű

The word of the wine: Blanc de blancs (champagne)

Champagne made only from the Chardonnay grape. The expression has been somewhat overused by the intensive use made of it by certain large distributors of white table wines (or sparkling wines) who were thus seeking to promote their product.

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

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