Tokaj and Eger producers won the Hungarian Wine Grand Prix

By: Trademagazin Date: 2025. 01. 10. 11:19

In the white wine category, the 2021 Csontos Furmint from Bott Pince in Tokaj, and in the red wine category, the 2019 Agapé Nagy-Eged-hegy Grand Superior from Eger in St. Andrea Szőlőbirtok in Eger won the 2024 Hungarian Wine Grand Prix awarded by the Hungarian Wine Writers’ Circle (MBK). The winner of the Dr. József Kosárka Memorial Prize is the Nimród Kovács Winery, also from Eger.

The top list of the Hungarian Wine Writers’ Circle contains 12 white and 12 red wines each year, and the members of the MBK award the Hungarian Wine Grand Prix in white and red during a blind tasting of these items.

This year, the wine writers selected the most wines from the Pannonian wine region (Villány, Szekszárd, Tolna and Pécs) and the Balaton wine region (six wine regions around Lake Balaton) among the top-listed wines, six from both regions. Next comes the Upper Pannonian wine region (Sopron, Mór, Etyek, Neszmély and Pannonhalma) with 5 wines, followed by Tokaj-Hegyalja with 4 wines. The Upper Hungarian wine region (Eger, Mátra and Bükk) is represented on the list with 3 wines, the Hungarian Wine Writers’ Circle told MTI on Wednesday.

The statement recalls that József Kosárka was the founder and president of the MBK until his death in 2022.

The award established in his memory was selected by the MBK membership from among the wineries that received the most nominations this year, and the 2024 commemorative award will go to the Nimród Kovács Winery in Eger.

This marks the third time that an Eger winery has received the award, after the Thummerer Winery in 2022 and the St. Andrea Vineyard in 2023.