Piarist wine 2009

The Furmint of Count Degenfeld Vineyard and the Szürkebarát of Nyári Pince (Summer Cellar) has won the Piarist Wine title. The winners of the Hungarian Piarist wine competition will be issued as the Piarist Wine of the year.

Dry white wines were competing on the Piarist tender. The aim of the competition held for the first time this year is to give rebirth to the old Piarist winery traditions and to familiarize the wines of a professional Hungarian oenologists with the wine-loving audience. Those vineries were invited to the wine fair which are situates near the traditional Piarist wine-growing fields at Lake Balaton and Tokaj regions. The jury assessed the Tokaj and Balaton region vines separately. The wine of the Gróf Degenfeld Vineyard, the Tokaji Furmint Barrel Aged 2007 won from Tokaj, Nyári Ödön's Szentgyörgy-hegyi Szürkebarát 2008 wine won from the Balaton region.