Get to know the Hungarian wineries recommended by foreign press – Videos

The journalist of the British Independent, John Clarke recommends five surprisingly cheap Hungarian wines in his latest piece published on 20 August. Check out which Hungarian wines are the Brit author’s favourites.

John Clarke recently wrote an article titled the 14 best Eastern European wines, in which he recommends 4 Romanian, two Croatian, one Slovenian, one Georgian and five Hungarian wines, plus one Brit wine for which the grapes are harvested in Hungary.

Clarke declares a Hungarian wine to be the very best from the whole list.

You can read the original article on the Independent here. Here are the 5 Hungarian wines and the four wineries from his list.

He recommends two red wines from the same Hungarian winery: Kovács Nimród Winery from the Eger wine region.

Kovács Nimród Monopole Blues Kékfrankos 2015 (10.3 Euros)

This wine is characterised by the mixed aroma of plum, cherry and dark chocolate, balanced acids and silky tannins. This wine is made from grapes exclusively selected from KNW’s Nagyfai and Nyilasmár Monopole terroirs. Each bottle spends 20 months in oak barrels, and as a result, this wine has a round and complex variety of flavours and aromas.

According to Clarke, the wine “has oodles of red berry and red fruit flavours combined with an earthy minerality. Goes well with cheese, pork or lamb.”

2 Kovács Nimród Monopole 777 Pinot Noir 2015 (15 Euros)

About this pinot noir, Clarke writes that it has a “raspberry, blackcurrant and cherry flavours all jostling for your attention while lengthy ageing in oak barrels gives it a velvet smoothness.” He also thinks that it is a ravishing and complex red wine.