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M�ty�s P�ger in his cellar Gy�ngy�spata, M�tra (Hungary) Here we are again in the village of Gy�ngy�spata in the M�tra wine region, and it was a short stroll from one cellar street to another and we reached this haven of quietness where M�ty�s P�ger , his wife Judit and his brothers family were finishing their picnic outside one of his cellars (this is the one where he readies and labels his bottles). I had met M�ty�s a couple months ago in Budapest at Vinopiano , an excellent wine bar with rebel wines. His day job is working in real estate in the big city but his passion is to make wine here in Matra from a small surface mostly located in the prized terroir of Gereg. His farming is fully organic and in the cellar he doesnt use additives, doesnt filter his reds and uses minimum so2 if any. M�ty�s P�gers yearly production is around 6000 bottles, mostly Kékfrankos...

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Bal�zs & Julianna in a parcel Szucsi , M�tra (Hungary) Were here in a village named Szucsi (pronounce sweetchie or something like that) which sits along a gentle slope surrounded by vineyards (see the pic on the left, best viewpoint on the village for Bal�zs who stops there when he has something to do in his parcels). The village is located probably much less than 3 kilometers as the crow flies from Gy�ngy�spata and thats where Bal�zs Palya (who has a day job as electrical engineer) and his girlfriend Julianna (or Julcsi) Mész�ros (who works in the logistics sector) started a small wine farm in 2019 with little grapes to work with, part from their garden, part given to them by Juliannas family. This is a passion thing for them and their prime intent when they started this was to remain sustainable both in the vineyard and the cellar, just let the wine express its...

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Andr�s & Kinga in front of their cellar Gy�ngy�spata , M�tra (Hungary) The wine region of M�tra sits on the M�tra hills which, on the way from Budapest when you drive north east to Eger and Tokaj and it grows a majority of white varieties. M�tra is sitting on volcanic slopes as many of these hills were volcanoes I guess (see pic on left, sorry for the pylons in the foreground), and while the wine region keeps a low profile on the international scene (compared to Tokaj and Eger) I was myself suprised to learn that it is the 2nd largest among the 22 wine regions of Hungary (#19 patch on the linked map). The deep history roots of this region shows up in the many cellars found in every village there, its pretty easy to spot them because in Hungary cellars are often built just outside the villages and away from the farms (closer to the parcels I guess), with a tiny house sitti...

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The tasting overflowing in the street Le Marais, Paris This is small natural-wine tasting named Pépites that took place in the Marais on a side street ( impasse Guéménée near the Place des Vosges) in a restaurant named Capitaine , I would have missed it if not tipped about it by Lexie and later Aaron (these Americans are well connected!). This month of april has been mostly fair and sunny in France and in Paris, with a little breeze that prevented top reach high temperatures. . The terraces of course enjoyed in this spring 2022 a solid rebound after two years of restraints and downright suppression, and parks, gardens & lawns were full as well (pic on left : Place des Vosges nearby). Tastings have taken the same path, even in small venues, people would elbow their way in cramped spaces without masks and worries. The fee for this professiona...

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Tanguy Perrault & Anne-Cécile Jadaud Chan�ay , Vouvray area (Loire) Here I am on the outskirts of the charming village of Chan�ay, sitting against the slopes lining the Loire river valley. Anne-Cécile and Tanguy who started their domaine in 2009 were initially teachers at the wine school of Amboise (Lycée Viticole) where they met. Longing for the vigneron life instead of merely teaching the skills, they ended making the step, first training their hand on a small parcel (0.5 hectare) all the while keeping their day job at the technical school, then later quitting for good as the domaine grew in surface (it now makes about 8 hectares with 7 hectares in production). Before that, Anne-Cécile (who is from Tours) had done her training in Montpellier [Languedoc] where she got her oenology degree ( DNO ) and Tanguy (who is from Brittany) got his vit...

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We had in Paris recently the tasting of the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux where the wines of 2019 were poured to the invited professionals. The event took place like usual now in the magnificient setting of the Carreau du Temple . The event was initially scheduled to take place early february but the rebound of the pandemic resulted in the postponing to the 3rd week of march, and when we received the invitations by mail in mid-february we were noticed to show a vaccination document (or passe sanitaire ) but in between the rules had been lifted. Anyway things seem to go back to normal with spring tastings resuming. This was a monday of course so that sommeliers and restaurateurs could come during their day off. There was a queue at the door at opening time but not that long compared to a few years ago. For your information, the UGCB is a group created in the early ...

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The counter and bottle wall Budapest, Hungary Here is Vinopiano , this wine bar made its debut on the other side of the Danube on Bart�k Béla �t and was transfered here because from what I understand the investor behind the venue found another location on Pest side along Tuzolt� utca on premises large enough so that they could fit both a kert (or Biergarten with a ruin pub touch) on the surface and the wine bar in a basement. Wine bars (usually doubling as wine shops) dealing with natural wine have been opening here and there in Budapest in the last few years but this one gets this relaxed approach that makes it more familiar for those of us used to the bohemian laidback atmosphere of the French natural wine bars. The easygoing feel may also have to do with the location, Tuzolt� utca is off the beaten track, a bit off-center its not the classy (but rather cold) ...

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