The Winery Kovács Nimród of Eger

Winery Kovács Nimród
The winery offers 34 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 1 of the estates of Eger.
It is located in Eger

The Winery Kovács Nimród is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 34 wines for sale in of Eger to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Kovács Nimród wines

Looking for the best Winery Kovács Nimród wines in Eger among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Kovács Nimród 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 Kovács Nimród wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Kovács Nimród

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Kovács Nimród

How Winery Kovács Nimród wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef tournedos with boursin, ghormeh sabzi (iranian herbed lamb stew) or pork gyros.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Kovács Nimród

On the nose the red wine of Winery Kovács Nimród. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, raspberry or microbio and sometimes also flavors of spices, blackberry or licorice.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Kovács Nimród

  • 2005With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.23/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.18/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.01/5

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

  • Kékfrankos
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Pinot Noir
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Blaufränkisch

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 white wines of Winery Kovács Nimród

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Kovács Nimród

How Winery Kovács Nimród wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of country-style snow peas, christmas salad or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Kovács Nimród

On the nose the white wine of Winery Kovács Nimród. often reveals types of flavors of cream, melon or tropical fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, spices or tree fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Kovács Nimród

  • 2007With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.17/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.06/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.91/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Furmint
  • Pinot Gris
  • Olaszrizling

Discover the grape variety: Furmint

Furmint is a very old Hungarian grape variety. It arrived in France in the 1800s. The bunches of Furmint are of medium size. They are compact and cylindrical. The berries are also of medium size. They are either short elliptical or rounded. Their thick skin changes from greenish white to reddish once the fruit is mature. This grape variety is known throughout the world for being part of the composition of the Hungarian Tokaj vintage. Robust, rich in alcohol and acidity, it needs light soil and a warm, dry climate to be fertile. It must also be pruned short and its budding takes place 7 days after the Chasselas. As for its maturity, it is of the second late period. This grape variety fears grey rot and erinosis. When vinified dry, Furmint produces a very fragrant, fine and highly alcoholic white wine.

The top pink wines of Winery Kovács Nimród

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Kovács Nimród

How Winery Kovács Nimród wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of sauté of pork with cider, pasta salad with surimi or walnut and roquefort tart.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Kovács Nimród

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Kovács Nimród. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

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

  • Blaufränkisch

The word of the wine: Clavelin

Typical bottle of the yellow wines of the Jura with a squat shape and a capacity of 62 cl.

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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.

News about Winery Kovács Nimród and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Clavelin

Typical bottle of the yellow wines of the Jura with a squat shape and a capacity of 62 cl.

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