The Winery Simon of Eger

Winery Simon
The winery offers 25 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 161 of the estates of Eger.
It is located in Eger

The Winery Simon is one of the best wineries to follow in Eger.. It offers 25 wines for sale in of Eger to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Simon wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Simon

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Simon

How Winery Simon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of dombrés and pig tails, shish kebab or roast veal with chanterelles and cream.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Simon

On the nose the red wine of Winery Simon. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Simon

  • 2009With an average score of 3.72/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.63/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.25/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.10/5

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

  • Kékfrankos
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • 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 white wines of Winery Simon

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Simon

How Winery Simon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of summer tuna quiche, shrimp and cherry tomato quiche or sunday night ham and cheese sandwich by fred.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Simon

On the nose the white wine of Winery Simon. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Simon

  • 2012With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Királyleányka
  • Pinot Gris
  • Leanyka
  • Zenit

Discover the grape variety: Pinot gris

Pinot Gris is a grey grape variety mutated from Pinot Noir. It has its origins in Burgundy, where it is called pinot-beurot in reference to the colour of the grey robes worn by the monks of the region. Established in Alsace since the 17th century, pinot gris was called tokay until 2007. It is made up of bunches of small berries that vary in colour from pink to blue-grey. It is particularly well suited to the continental climate because it is resistant to the cold in winter and to spring frosts. This variety also likes dry limestone soils with plenty of sunshine in the summer. Pinot Gris is well suited to late harvesting or to the selection of noble grapes, depending on the year and the concentration of sugars in the berries. Pinot Gris wines are distinguished by their aromatic complexity of white fruits, mushrooms, honey, vanilla, cinnamon, etc., and their great finesse. In the Loire Valley, pinot gris is used in the Coteaux-d'Ancenis appellations. It gives dry or sweet wines with pear and peach aromas.

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 Simon and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Tertiary aromas

Aromas resulting from the aging of the wine in the bottle. The aromas evolve with time, from fresh fruitiness to notes of stewed, candied or dried fruit, to aromas of venison or undergrowth.

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