The Winery Vitavin of Eger

Winery Vitavin - Egri Bikavér Bulls Blood
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 2.9.
It is ranked in the top 445 of the estates of Eger.
It is located in Eger

The Winery Vitavin is one of the best wineries to follow in Eger.. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Eger to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Vitavin wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Vitavin

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Vitavin

How Winery Vitavin wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of shoulder of suckling lamb confit with herbs or venison leg with tomato sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Vitavin

On the nose the red wine of Winery Vitavin. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or red fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Vitavin

  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.00/5
  • 2009With an average score of 2.95/5
  • 2008With an average score of 2.84/5
  • 2012With an average score of 2.70/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Kékfrankos
  • Kadarka
  • Blauer Portugieser

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 Vitavin

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Vitavin

How Winery Vitavin wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of the garbure, smoked salmon sandwich or quiche without pastry.

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

  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

Discover the grape variety: Kadarka

Some say that it originated in Hungary, while others say it came from Turkey via Bulgaria. Known in Austria and more generally in Eastern Europe (Albania, Croatia, Moldavia, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, etc.), it is registered in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1.

News about Winery Vitavin and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Viscosity

Consistency of wine reminiscent of the tactile sensation of sugar syrup with varying degrees of fluidity, due to the alcohol and natural sugar in the grapes present in sweet wines. In excess, this sensation can make the wine pasty and heavy. To the eye, viscosity is referred to as tears.

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