 to exotic wine travel. I am your host Matthew Horky. We got a special guest here today and I'll talk all about that. First I want to let you know we're here in Budapest, Hungary right now. We're getting ready to launch or by the time this video is out we'll be launching our Kickstarter for our fourth wine book Discover Hungarian Wine. It will be in the description box and one of the partners of Discover Hungarian Wine is this place. Tasting Table by Taste Hungry and that's from here with the head sommelier Sebastian Gerardo. Did I pronounce that right? Almost, almost right, yeah. Give me the right for this. Gerardo. Gerardo, okay. Thank you for being on the show. Thank you. Can you talk a little bit what goes on here in the tasting table? What are my favorite places in Budapest? Sure, so we are a wine tasting room we specialize in Hungarian wines so we carry more than 200 labels of Hungarian wines and we do daily tastings twice a day mostly in English so for everybody just traveling by or expats living here want to try Hungarian stuff. It's really cool you guys do a great job of education it's not a bar it's a it's really a tasting room I mean it's two hours tastings right you sit down okay. The cool thing is you can purchase wines here so they have some exclusive labels and they also have a wine club these wines are shipped to the EU and also these are the ones that are in America right yes so we're gonna get into tasting some of these I have experience with some with some of these vintages Sebastian had Sevi as well with more let's get started here we have the Karad Berger right in Hungarian the Palandor this is a dry ferment from 2012 wow why why did they select an older vintage of format to go so you know format is this incredible variety it's the trademark grape of Hungary and when format gets some age and when it's oak age like this one it gets this very nice complexity almost baked apple a little bit of kind of red red apple skin but also the baking spices sweet spices all spice so it gets very complex the acidity is always quite high I mean it's Hungary yes I mean this is the one of the main grapes in the great sweet wines of Tokai right correct for me now you know I'm excited because right off the bat to dry Tokai does not always age very well oxidizes usually quite quickly unless there's good examples this is not oxidized all knows quite explosive a lot of baked apple yeah just a touch a touch of the barrel yogurt really nice for me always gets us natural not petrol but to me a natural gas type of flavor exactly let's let's let's go what do you think about this well I think it's an excellent example of an aged for me with so much I mean it's not crazy old it's 2012 but it's a very good oak in integration in the wine it just creamy spicy and since this come from Erdovenia which is a small great town of Tokai so it needs more acidity in the wines that's why it's it's fresh it's crisp but it's round in the forest that's what exactly you know I have to be say I've experienced with this I just tasted 2017 about a week ago this wine is much better it's showing a lot of age I actually was not so excited about trying this on the show honestly I'm in the 90 90 plus range on this I think this is very good it's got length bite fans of chablis fans of re-sling gonna really like this kind of body to go with pork chicken right exactly yeah you can easily put some you know baked pork loin or something like that it can stand creamy sauces you can also stand a little bit spicy kind of with some sweetness and dried fruits as well in the sauce so it's a very versatile one and some he's a chef so he knows he knows better than me so yeah let's uh what do we want to go the big ever the cabernet from we should go with okay so the next we have I'll put this up on the screen the boy eggly big ever 2016 you want to rinse you want me to pour right over not right over the big ever so um you know egg air is one of the regions besides sex art that can make big ever or the infamous or infamous bull's blood blend uh you know what I'm big ever it's my personal palette perfectly I love it got some earthy notes or complexities it's just not a big fruit bomb the tannins are soft but you know what the wines age well so tell me a little bit more about boy I've got it well but it is the family name of the of the owners actually I'm a very young wine maker he studied in and traveled in New Zealand so he has his new world style of wine in his mind and this is a so big cover of bull's blood in Hungarian it's a blend of four grapes minimum right and the most important has to be always cake francoise grape or blau francoise and then this guy uses unique grapes to blend in so it's not a border blend with cake francoise like most of the bull's bloods are this is actually of course cake francoise then it has swigelt blau burger which is the small brother of swigelt and a little bit of Cabernet Sauvignon just a little bit and it's 18 months of Hungarian oak and very very nice very nicely priced this is kind of like a mid-range type of wine super if you're in the US for hungry if you're in the US it's super value wine I think this is age 13 months in oak if I remember yeah yes something like that but it's always Hungarian oak that he uses and the oak are usually coming from the Tokai region which is very close to Eger it's just neighboring the zempline mountain exactly so you know right on the first Egeri you know there's a difference between Eger in the north it's a little bit cooler and sexard in the south where they make Bikivera as well this wine it definitely shows the oak which I'm surprising which surprising to me I definitely pick up the Hungarian oak it's not bothering me in any way I'm just saying I pick it up a lot of a lot of black crushed cherries maybe a little bit of stewed strawberries pepper you always get with these type of wines a little bit of earthy notes it smells really complex for this kind of wine I mean I I we usually pour these wines in the tasting who are very excited about it and one of the things that I usually say about it it smells like wild forest fruits because of the swigelt of the blood working you know they're not typical international quote-unquote international style grapes they have these wild blackberries wild you know strawberries when I say Bikivera you know Bikivera's can be very serious Bikivera's can be very serious but on the flip side they're a great introduction for people that don't like overly tannic wines but they still have old world complexities for me if I was going to give it to a U.S. or someone a U.S. person somebody actually with a more experience in wine I would say people that like an old world pellet but don't just want to bit drink big humongous bombs and this is a lovely wine juicy could go great with food oh I mean come on everything that has meat but is not a steak so everything pasta related with some meat inside some mushrooms even some truffles can't stand because it's it's I mean it's it's earthy as well it has this very nice complexity of kind of cured meat in in a way it's it's actually but it but it has a nice acidity right yeah it's very easy to drink it's not a full heavier bomb it's a very well balanced tannin acidity I think I like this a lot this is kind of you know some Bikivera's I've tasted before remind me a village level burgundy and I'm not joking I think they would not stand out of place this is more a little bit up more on the fruity side the oak shows a little bit it's 2016 it's gonna come together well I'm a big fan of this wine for me I'm 89 out of 100 but don't don't take that score as gospel this is the type of wine that I would like to drink every day it's just not uber uber uber complex but it has enough complexes keep me interested this is something I'll drink for lunch every single day exactly that's a tremendously good lunch wine I mean it's um complex balance delicious let's move on here we got the hava shite mar yeah hava shite mar yes hava shite mar the frana 2016 this is cabernet frunk from the same region again uh you know cabernet frunk is very popular and hungry and it does very well but usually better in the south although I've tasted some excellent examples coming out of the north I'm really excited to revisit this wine I have experienced with this producer I have tasted older white vintages in the past let's get on tell me a little bit about this producer how big I mean tiny tiny small they when they started making this wine this was their only parcel they owned that's why it's called frana which is a way in Hungarian to say my frunk okay and because they they have all their wines but they buy in the grapes for those wines this was the first wine they started to do out of their own parcel something about two hectares like five acres or so and this is the top wine of the winery it's just an incredibly balanced because you have to remember where in Eger in the north so it's more acidity yes but still cabernet frunk with it's incredible perfume of violets and just blackberries for me the violets the caps come the black cheers stands out a little bit of fun this immediately when I think about it I go right to Borgoy so if you're a lower cabernet frunk fun this is kind of what you want to be seeking out something that you know for me some people turned off by the bell pepper notes I love them I love it well smells really good actually really it's uh dark fruits here for sure uh but it's not a huge you know wine that you have a glass and you're tired of it because of the acidity it's it's big but it's easy to drink I think it's uh it's a tremendous example cabernet frunk great value by the way this is a fantastic uh vintage of this wine I've had I've had this wine in the past I got the 15 here before uh this is very good I mean that for people that want big old fruit bombs big-time wines okay don't stay away from if you like lower cabernet frunk if you like more medium-bodied red wines you like some of those vegetal notes you are gonna really dig this I am huge on this wine I think it's very very good I am I'm 90 plus on this I think it's maybe even 91 I would have to take some but it's very good stuff right actually I think it's well balanced easier to drink I mean we have to remember we're in central Europe this is not warm this is now southern spain southern internet this is this is colder climate and this is a very good elegant red wine you know we're filming this at 10 a.m but I kind of want to drink this so I have two tastings to do but I don't mind this wine is delicious this wine is delicious so guys check it out I will put the link to uh if you're in the US where you can get signed up to get some of these wines on the taste hungry uh the US club I will also put a discount code if you want to do any tours any tastings or taste hungry you can get 5% off with our with our custom code Exotic Wine Travels uh yeah thank you Sadi for being on the show anything else you want to say about Egger these wines well you should you should next time search for Hungary it's great value and they give you much more that you pay for so what's not too like fantastic warren so guys uh if you like this video back our Kickstarter discover Hungary and wine also the description box and please subscribe to our youtube channel Exotic Wine Travel I will see you at the next episode