Huszár Zoltán (szerk.): Kereszténység és államiság Baranyában (Pécs, 2000)
Andrásfalvy Bertalan: Szőlőművelés és borkultúra Baranyában
be taught new viticultural methods. To this end, the Pécs Association of Vineyard Owners decided to found a school of vine-dressers. Professional vinegrowing was to fill an ever more important role. The Villány vineyard owner Zsigmond Teleki (1857-1910) was to earn a reputation as a result of his stock and grafting plantation, set up in 1881. The reconstruction of the utterly destroyed vinegrowing regions, which took place on a massive scale, supported both by society and state, was effectively brought to an end by the First World War. In the period between the two world wars the best-known vineyard of Pécs was the Szentmiklds estate of the Cathedral Chapter, and its most famous wine the Pécs cirfandli. However, the most important wines were Pécs white burgundy and Italian reisling. After the Second World War the church vineyards were nationalized. In 1949 the Experimental Vine and Wine Station was created out of the cathedral and the bishop’s estates. Between 1952 and 1972 its first director, Márton Németh brought together a collection of 700 distnct types of vinestock. In 1977 the Station became the Southern Transdanubian Viticultural Research Institute, which by 1995 had assembled 1120 strains of vine. The Institute, a driving force in the region’s vine-growing community not only encouraged the use of the trained row, umbrella shape and trellis, but also the spread of well-known types providing greater yields. Such are the worldwide chardonnay, Rhine Riesling, cabernet franc and merlot, the old grapes such as Italian Riesling, Silvaner, tramini, királyleányka, zöldveltelini, Muscat ottonel, and zweigelt are recommended as well as the local hárslevelű, oporto and cirfandli. For all the associated difficulties, vine-growing and wine-making may serve to assist in the development of the country in the future, given the right conditions embodied in the old phrase, "Hungary, the Garden". Magyarország borvidékei Weingebiete Ungarns Map of Hungarian Wine-Growing Regions Villányi borvidék Mecsekaljai borvidék pannonhalma-Sokoroaljai ВакопЫ-Csopái Somlói I** kovácshida
