Hungarian Grape Harvest Fests between the two world war – Photo gallery, video

Group picture from Dunavecse (11941), source: Fortepan.hu

Nothing is better than sipping the fresh must in the autumn sunshine. Even more wonderful is the feeling if we do that after a hard-working day in the vineyard. Harvesting our own vine with family and friends is really an abiding experience, specially if we celebrate it with a real hungarian village festive. Image selection is coming!

“Tavasszal az első ibolya a szenzáció, nyáron a cséplés és az aratás,ősszel a szüret, amit úgy megünnepelünk, mint a legnagyobb ünnepnapot…”

„The first viola is the real sensation of spring, the threshing and cropping are the best of the summer time, but we celebrate as the biggest feast-day the harvesting at autumn…”

Hungarian fruits are the best…(1939) Source: fortepan.hu (42680,42487, Sen. Tamás Konok)

Group picture from 1935: The participants of the Nógrádverőce’ Harvest Fest. Both woman and man wear the local folklor costume. Source: fortepan.hu (74325, Gabriella Gyurcsok)

Everybody knows the tasty of the strawberry-smell somlai vine. Sándor Kisfaludy (1772-1844; well-known hungarian poet) also had a vineyard at Mount-Somlai (Bakony), even more he commemorates to harvesting in one of his poem, called Bloodharvesting (Vérszüret)… Picture: A companionship in a vineyard at Mount-Somlai in 1939. Source: fortepan.hu (29885, Endre Baráth)