Guided descent into the three-level 15th-century Rákóczi cellar under Tokaj's main square, culminating in the Knight's Hall, the largest underground hall in the region at 28 m long. Includes access to the underground wine museum housing up to 100 vintages of Hétszőlő estate wines.
Address: Kossuth tér 15, 3910 Tokaj, Hungary
Appointment-only visit to a historically significant Tokaj estate whose family developed the Aszú method in the 17th century. Walk through historic Mád cellars and well-tended single-vineyard blocks, followed by a seated comparison of cuvées from different parcels.
Participation in the Tokaj harvest at its most labour-intensive moment: hand-selecting individual botrytised aszú berries one by one from the vine. The late-October aszú harvest is wine's most exacting picking work; a half-day with a harvesting team is an authentic wine experience.
Seated vertical tasting of six Tokaji Aszú vintages in Holdvölgy's 16th-century cellars in Mád, winner of Best Cellar Visit in Hungary two consecutive years. Guides explain how each vintage's botrytis development, harvest conditions. Curriculum spans winemaking choices shaped the evolution of the wine as well.
Tasting of Disznókő's Eszencia, the intensely concentrated aszú berry must that flows under its own weight, alongside the full Aszú range. Guides in the UNESCO-listed cellar explain the unique chemistry of noble rot and the legal definition of Tokaji styles.
Private appointment at Royal Tokaji covering 1.5 miles of 13th-century underground cellars and the modern Csaba Bodonyi-designed winery. Tasting covers the single-vineyard portfolio (Mézes Mály, Nyulászó, Betsek, Szent Tamás) from dry Furmint to Aszú and Eszencia.
Guided walk through the Gombos-hegyi cellar row in Hercegkút, the most photographed cellar village in Hungary. Black mould-covered Swabian cellar facades carved into rhyolite-tufa, UNESCO-listed since 2002. Tour includes the Götz winery, underground gallery. Curriculum spans a seated tasting as well.
