Hungary

What is documented

Hungary is a member of the EU, so the EU categories for sparkling wine apply there; see EU categories. The national rules for pezsgő, and production statistics, were not collected for this page. What follows comes from one producer's own records and from the international grape database VIVC.

Notable houses

Törley (Тёрлей) was registered at the Budapest Court of Registration on 1 August 1882 as "Törley József és Társa".¹ According to the company:

• it was the first house in Hungary to adopt disgorgement (the company gives no year);¹
• by 1910 it was making two million bottles a year.¹

The company is based in Budapest.¹

Grapes with Hungarian links

Two varieties covered on this site have a Hungarian connection in the VIVC database. Furmint is recorded with Hungary as its country of origin.² Welschriesling is known in Hungary as Olaszrizling, one of its VIVC synonyms, although VIVC records Italy as its origin.³ How widely either variety is used for Hungarian sparkling wine was not documented in the sources checked.

Reading further

For the steps that Törley credits itself with introducing, see riddling and disgorgement. For a neighbouring sparkling tradition, see Austria.

Törley in dates

Source: the company's own history page.¹