Budapest Wine Testing Festival
September 3rd, 2010Wine tasting festival is an event taken place in a particular cellar or a place, where wine experts gather together to taste and evaluate the wine. This can be done for old wines or new wines. From few hundred years ago the methodology of wine tasting has changed a bit these days. These days’ modern wine tasters evaluate the flavours, aromas and other characteristics of a wine. It would be amazing to become a wine taste wouldn’t it? When you travel always keep an extra bottle opener, you never know when you might need it.
There is a wine cellar that opens every day, well except Wednesday really in Budapest, Hungary. To evaluate you get to taste (drink) the wine and then give your opinion. There are various English speaking wine experts who will be there to guide you and introduce the wines and the regions where the wines are made in Hungary. The cellar is located in Budapest Castle District within the Hilton Hotel and it is called the Faust. You can taste or more like drink several wine when you are there and also they have some beautiful historic kitchen accessories.
I got to go to this wine cellar last week and I received two gift vouchers for me and my partner from UK’s wine tasting community. It was a present to us from them as we have been wine experts for over 15 years now. This was a great visit because we got to learn a lot about Hungarian wine. The knowledge was outstanding as there were many wine experts from different countries. We did learn a lot.
I believe this wine cellar has been underrated in the past and I think every wine lover should visit the Faust at least once in their lifetime. We loved it so much that we are planning a visit again next year but this time it would be for more than just 4 days that we spend their this time around.











