Hungarian wineries won gold, silver at CSWWC Championships: here are the 4+1 best!

The CSWWC is the most professional, focused and selective competition for all serious-minded, quality-conscious Champagne and Sparkling Wine producers. Therefore, it is a great honour for the 4+1 Hungarian wineries to have won gold and silver medals with several products in the 2024 world championships. The +1 stands for a Hungarian winery in Romania’s Transylvania region, a territory populated by more than a million indigenous Hungarians.

Puskás, Rubic’s cube, Hungarian wine

If a foreigner were to name some typical Hungarian things, one would probably say Puskás, the footballer, the Rubik’s cube, or the ballpoint pen. But sooner than later, you will find the Tokaj or Balaton wine regions on that list since Hungary’s sparkling wine products are increasingly acknowledged worldwide.

Thus, it may not be surprising that 4+1 Hungarian wineries won gold and silver medals in the world’s most prestigious wine contest, the CSWWC, short for “Champagne and Sparkling Wine World Championships”.

Of course, Hungary could not precede countries like France, Italy or Spain, dominating the contest in terms of the number of their entries, the diversity of entries and medals won. But we preceded India and China, the world’s two most populous countries, and Portugal, a traditional winemaking great power.

Hungarian winery from Romania exceptional

Furthermore, from Romania, only a Hungarian winery could win medals. The Carassia Sparkling Winery (Kárásztelek, Szilágy County, Transylvania), bagged four gold medals on this year’s CSWWC. You may check out the details of the winning products by scrolling down in the long chart of the winners HERE.

Located in the Crișana Region (Körösvidék in Hungarian), which is one of the oldest wine-producing regions in Transylvania, the Carassia Sparkling Winery covers a 22-hectare south-faced territory. It was planted in 2011, sits on clay-rich soil, and was built from the ground up for sparkling winemaking, and it is managed from pruning to harvest accordingly.

“The grape varieties have been chosen based on the terroir and the mission of the winery, that is, to produce high-quality sparkling wines with traditional methods. The Pinot Noir is the flagship variety (10 ha), the backbone of our sparkling wines. It adds depth, complexity and body to the sparkling wines in blends, fruitiness for rosé sparkling, and it is mirroring the terroir as petillant and still red wine, as well. The indigenous feteasca regalia (Royal Maiden) used for petillant wines and Rhein Riesling for crispy still wine are also part of our 22-hectare vineyard”, they wrote on the winery’s official website.