tokaj

in hungary there is a famous wine region that produces famous wine. the city is tokaj, the wine is tokaji bor. i had heard about this wine and this place, but never visited.

until this weekend...

annamari, zoli, eszter, and dani were taking a day trip to the town because the weather was so lovely. i was invited to tag along and jumped at the chance. so we headed to the town about 20 minutes' drive from our city.

one of my fist glimpses of the mountain which would be our destination (see the tower on top?)through the town on the way to the mountain

vineyards

mountain

mountain and vineyards

the town, mountain, and vineyards

on the way up the mountainview from the top!

the tower up close... and zoli, of course

view from the top (on the other side)

we walked down the mountain a bit, just because

after the mountain we headed back into tokaj to see a wine cellar. there was a tiny hitch as it was a sunday and a lot of stuff was closed. luckily we found a cellar that was open. it looked like a regular little house on the outside, but inside there was a whole world under there! the one we went in has a restaurant in there.

here is a private room for a wine party. ooooh.

here is the most delicious wine i've ever tasted

the walls of the cellar are lined with centuries-old mold. it makes for a unique (not in a good way) smell, but it's also the reason the wine is so great. so, mold on! they keep the wine in huge barrels and when you want some, a guy, much like the one in this picture, syphons some out with that glass thing he's holding, and pours it into your glass.

see all the barrels and the mold??

zoli and annamari even bought me a bottle of the good stuff. :D


there are two rivers that meet in tokaj, so we walked along them and enjoyed the spring. i'm not gonna lie, we should have eaten before we tasted the wines because we ladies were feeling a bit dizzy/happy on the walk.

here's the bridge we hung out on after we got some ice cream