Two decades of Kopar

1997. Do you remember what happened twenty years ago? This was the year when headlines all over the world were occupied by news of the first cloned animal, Dolly the sheep, the Hollywood blockbuster Titanic made moviegoers reach for their handkerchiefs, the Hungarian water polo team led by Dénes Kemény made its international breakthrough by…

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A spring outlook

Although we were not bored during the winter, we await spring each year just like you. We start the work in the vineyards, we taste the wines resting in the cellars, and compile our great red wines. We prepare for the spring events and we celebrate this year an important anniversary: Kopar will be 20.…

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Konkoly slope

Our nicest Cabernet Franc wines are made from Konkoly slope on Fekete-hill facing to Nagyharsány. We took back this area from the forest, acacia grove with a lot of work, that finally we were able to harvest from it in 2001 again. The area with 25 hectares almost totally belongs to us. It got its…

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Get acquainted with Fekete Járdovány!

In 2004 we got 7 ancient Hungarian varieties from the a Viticulture and Oenology Research Institute of the University of Pécs. These were: bakator, balafánt, purcsin, feketefájú bajor, kékbajor, csókaszőlő, and fekete járdovány. As an experiment first we planted 2-2 rows of each next to the main building of the winery. Because we could not…

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Gere wine packages for Christmas

Give Gere Attila wine for Christmas and order it comfortably from our webshop. Everybody can find the perfect surprise for the beloved ones, and those wines, which fit excellently to the Christmas dishes. Villányi Franc package + gift 1 bottle Weninger & Gere Villányi Franc 2012 in a fancy box 2 wine glasses with Gere…

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Evaluation of 2016 vintage

We finished with the harvest so the greatest part of our attention concentrates to the cellar, where wines are fermenting and ageing. It is always worth to review how the vintages are change, because we can draw a goof lesson from the vintage evaluations. Since the weather conditions of the previous years affect the characteristics…

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The Ördögárok vineyard

Among our four great vineyards and areas on the 60 hectare Ördögárok – which belongs partly to Villány, partly to Nagyharsány – we farm grape on 15 hectares. In the 70’s this area was pulled out from production because its farming was not possible under large-scale production so the forest took it back quickly. In…

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Harvest starts at the winery

In the wine region the result of the whole-year work is the harvest. So far weather was gracious and we hope this will go on since harvest works are continuous from now. On the 70 hectares there will be always to pick something. This year as always we started the harvest with the picking of…

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Our wine tasting and cellar visit programs

It is always a great fun to visit a wine region, since during the trip the guests can meet the wine maker, visit the cellar, they can peek in how and where the wines are made. Wine tastings and cellar visits in themselves can ensure a great experience for professionals and amateurs too and this…

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It is summer so we drink spritzer!

Spritzer is surely not the first thing what comes to the mind when thinking about Villány, but summer is summer here too, and it is hot here too. And this time a glass of ice cold spritzer comes well, either from our olaszrizling or rosé. According to the legend in 1842 András Fáy hosted Mihály…

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