The Winery Szent Donat of Balatonf&uumlred-Csopak of Balaton

Winery Szent Donat - M&aacuterga Furmint
The winery offers 34 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 1 of the estates of Balaton.
It is located in Balatonf&uumlred-Csopak in the region of Balaton

The Winery Szent Donat is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 34 wines for sale in of Balatonf&uumlred-Csopak to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Szent Donat wines

Looking for the best Winery Szent Donat wines in Balatonfüred-Csopak among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Szent Donat 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 Szent Donat wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Szent Donat

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Szent Donat

How Winery Szent Donat wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of mature and hard cheese, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of chicken and curry lasagna, magic cake cheese quiche or croque madame.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Szent Donat

On the nose the white wine of Winery Szent Donat. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, apples or minerality and sometimes also flavors of pear, oil or earth.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Szent Donat

  • 2019With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.81/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.77/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.73/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.65/5

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

  • Olaszrizling
  • Furmint
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Riesling

Discovering the wine region of Balatonf&uumlred-Csopak

The wine region of Balatonfüred-Csopak is located in the region of Balaton of Hungary. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Szent Donat or the Domaine Jásdi Pince produce mainly wines white, red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Balatonfüred-Csopak are Merlot, Furmint and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Balatonfüred-Csopak often reveals types of flavors of earth, black fruit or microbio and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, vegetal or citrus fruit.

In the mouth of Balatonfüred-Csopak is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 28 estates and châteaux in the of Balatonfüred-Csopak, producing 128 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Balatonfüred-Csopak go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison).

The top red wines of Winery Szent Donat

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Szent Donat

How Winery Szent Donat wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or lamb such as recipes of monkfish with vegetable tagliatelle or lamb tagine with apricots.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Szent Donat

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Szent Donat

  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Kékfrankos
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon

Sauvignon Gris is a grape variety that originated in France (South-West). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Sauvignon Gris can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Szent Donat

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Szent Donat

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

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

  • Kékfrankos

The word of the wine: PDO

Protected Designation of Origin - equivalent to the term "controlled designation of origin" in European regulations.

The top pink wines of Winery Szent Donat

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Szent Donat

How Winery Szent Donat wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of borscht (russia), lamb mice confit and melting carrots or english breakfast.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Szent Donat

  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Zweigelt
  • Kékfrankos

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Szent Donat

Planning a wine route in the of Balatonf&uumlred-Csopak? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Szent Donat.

Discover the grape variety: Zweigelt

Intraspecific crossing between the saint laurent and the limberger realized in 1922 and in Austria by Fritz Zweigelt (1888/1964) who named it rotburger. Very well known in Austria, it can be found in most Eastern countries, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, the United States, etc. In France, it is not very well known and yet this variety has interesting qualities when vinified as a single variety for both red and rosé wines. - Synonyms: rotburger, klosterneuburger, zweigelt blau, blauer-zweigelt in Germany, zweigeltrebe in Austria, Great Britain and the Czech Republic, blauer zwelgetrabe in Hungary, etc. (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here !)

News about Winery Szent Donat and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

First single-vineyard Rioja sparkling wine released

It had been possible to produce sparkling wines in Rioja, certified as DO Cava, since the creation of Spain’s main sparkling wine entity. But this fact was often unknown to consumers given that 95% of Cava is produced in the Catalunya region. The area for production of Cava in Rioja is however limited to only 18 of the nearly 150 municipalities within the entire DO zone. In a bid to better show point of origin, the new subzone labelling of Cava that was approved in 2021 now refers to the p ...

Bordeaux château to ‘simulate’ 2050 vintage climate

Château La Tour Carnet said it will expose an experimental vineyard to artificially higher temperatures to replicate some of the conditions the Bordeaux 2050 vintage may face due to climate change. It’s part of the ‘Oracle’ project at the fourth growth estate, which is among those in Bordeaux seeking to understand how well classic grape varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot can adapt to climate change. At La Tour Carnet, warming cables more commonly used in aeroplanes will be employed thi ...

The word of the wine: PDO

Protected Designation of Origin - equivalent to the term "controlled designation of origin" in European regulations.