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EGRI BIKAVÉR

The Egri Bikavér, blended of wines of several blue grapes, is in all probability the best-known red wine of Hungary. About the origin of its name there is no precise information available.

Some want to connect the name with the defenders of

Eger fighting heroically with the Turks, in written documents the name “Bikavér”, as this strong red wine from Eger is called, has only been used since 1851.

In that period the different blue grapes were harvested at the same time, and then they were pressed (in fact, trodden) and fermented on their own skin in wooden barrels.

The making of the more noble variety of Egri Bikavér is connected to the name of Jenő Gröber. He made wine from the blue grapes separately, and then from the pure wines he blended this very characteristic fiery wine.

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The method of making this noble wine, based on several hundred years of tradition, was put in writing by the Eger vine-growing Community in the Bikavér Codex in 1997. This is the description: “It is of protected ori17