A taste of the real Hungary: Cheese making at a family homestead & wine tasting in a cellar - with Budapest transfer – Sunday, July 30, 2023

Do you wonder what life is like on a family farm, surrounded by animals and depending on nature, the weather, the crops, the rising and setting of the sun every day? What are the colors, smells and flavors of the Hungarian countryside, beyond picture-perfect white picket fences, ornamental jugs, embroidered tablecloths and restaurant goulash in the city?

Visit with us a recently established, small family farm, located in a dead-end village in the foothills of the Vértes, run by a single mother with an incredible willpower. Taste the homemade produce and learn the secrets of cheese making from fresh milk.

Then complete the experience with a cellar visit to a renowned winemaker in the Mór wine region and taste the finest wines of the sunny hills and even try a real country stew made with local and homemade ingredients!

We will meet in Budapest at 8.00 am, at Kelenföld train station, easily accessible by public transport, where you will be picked up by our comfortable minibus, driven by an experienced driver who is a professional tour guide himself and knows the whole country inside out and also speaks perfect English.

We travel in complete comfort for about 1 hour 15 minutes to the first location, and at the end of the day, our driver will take you back to Budapest.

The family farm was established 1.5 years ago by a single mother and her teenage daughter. The farm is still under construction, but they already welcome with endless love the groups who visit them, and these visits mean an immense help in developing the farm.

At the family farm we are welcomed with a pálinka and cheese tasting.

After that, during a cheese making workshop, guests can make special, uniquely flavoured fresh curd cheeses that everyone can take home with them. Each participant can make their own flavoured fresh cheese made from cow’s milk and learn about the cheese-making process. The prepared cheeses, weighing about 20 dkg each, are placed in a press and packed after pressing so that everyone can take them home.

You can also get up close and personal with the farm’s inhabitants: dwarf cows, goats, kid goats, Berci the lamb and his brides, a donkey, ponies, horses, pygmy kangaroos, bunnies, quails and the inhabitants of the poultry farm are all happy to welcome you in their home.

After the farm visit, we hit the road to escape the summer heat in a cool wine cellar in Mór, where Miklós Csabi is waiting for the group with a late lunch and wine tasting. He owns a little vinery in the historic Mór wine region, where they produce mostly medium-bodied white wines. The wine tasting will take place in his cosy wine cellar.

Upon arrival, Csabi will welcome us with finger food and alcoholic welcome drinks, after which we will participate in a 2-hour wine tasting program of 8 items, and get to know the pride of the cellar and the typical wines and grape varieties of the Mór wine region.

During the wine tasting we can satisfy our surely awakened appetites with a delicious and hearty Pincepörkölt (“cellar stew”), accompanied by homemade pickled vegetables.

After the celar visit, we will say goodbye to our host and depart, arriving back in Budapest at 17.00.

Program fee

160 EUR + 43.20 EUR VAT per person

The price includes:

Transfer from Budapest and back in a comfortable minibus
English speaking guide and interpreting during the transfer and on the farm
Cheese making workshop
Welcome pálinka (brandy) and cheese tasting
Homestead visit, animal petting
Wine tasting lunch (“Pincepörkölt” – Cellar stew)
8 item wine tasting
Guided tour of the wine cellar in English

Pick-up point in Budapest: 8 am, Kelenföld Railway Station (Koszorúslány utca, taxi station)

The tour starts with a minimum of 4 people and a maximum of 7.
(We only welcome applications from adult participants.)

Entry fee payment due on registration. Your registration will be considered final once the payment has been received.
Available places will be filled in the order of payment.
Terms and conditions for registration and cancellation