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Best Wine Memories of 2019

by DR MATTHEW HORKEY - December 19, 2019July 26, 2020

Reading Time: As 2019 closes and 2020 unfolds, it will mark five straight years of traveling around the world. We've spent that entire time uncovering unique wines from both far-flung and well-known regions of the wine world. In 2015 we left our careers to take a sabbatical. I had a

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Hungarian Wine

by CHARINE TAN - November 29, 2019December 1, 2019

Discover Hungarian Wine Kickstarter Crowdfund Story

Reading Time: Three weeks ago, we launched a Kickstarter campaign for our fourth wine guidebook, Discover Hungarian Wine: A Visitor-Friendly Guide. It was our first time trying to do a crowdfunding project, and oh my, we messed up. It was a perfect case of "you don't know what you don't know until you

Discover Hungarian Wine on Kickstarter

Hungarian Wine

by DR MATTHEW HORKEY - November 20, 2019November 21, 2019

Reading Time: Discover Hungarian Wine is a project that we've been working on for over two years. Exotic Wine Travel is proud to announce that our fourth wine book is now available for pre-order on Kickstarter. We will need to reach our funding goal in order to bring this book

Hungarian Wine: A Walk On The Wild Side

by DR MATTHEW HORKEY - November 5, 2019July 26, 2020

Reading Time: There are a few can't miss places for wine lovers in Budapest and Könyvbár & Restaurant is one of them. Every time we pass through the city, we pay a visit to Könyvbár (which translates to 'book bar'). It's located in District VII as is one of only

Takler, Szenta-hegyi 2016

by DR MATTHEW HORKEY - October 1, 2019October 1, 2019

Reading Time: Hello! Welcome to As Drunk by Exotic Wine Travel, a weekly column where we feature interesting wines that we encourage you to seek out. The reviews featured in this series may be written by either one or the both of us. The featured wines can be from obscure or

Hungarian Wines Revisited

Hungarian Wine

by DR MATTHEW HORKEY - August 29, 2019August 30, 2019

Reading Time: Charine and I are huge fans of Hungarian wines and jump at every opportunity to return to the country and taste. So when hungarianwines.eu invited me to attend their 4-day study trip for the second year in a row, I immediately said yes. The trip included stops in

Orange Wine Festival 2018: Here To Stay

by DR MATTHEW HORKEY - April 10, 2019April 10, 2019

Reading Time: Are they orange wines or are they amber wines? Are these wines the real deal or are they just a fad? Whatever you want to call these wines, we love them and don't get sick of them. That's why we chose to attend the Orange Wine Festival in Vienna

The Millésima Blog Awards 2019: Could You Help Us?

by DR MATTHEW HORKEY - February 8, 2019February 11, 2019

Reading Time: *UPDATE on 11, February 2019: The voting period for this is now CLOSED. Thank you for your support. Exotic Wine Travel has made it to the final round of the Millésima Blog Awards 2019. Could we get your help to cross the finish line? Last year, we submitted articles to

Exotic Wine Travel’s 18 Wines of 2018

by EXOTIC WINE TRAVEL - January 2, 2019January 7, 2019

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Reading Time: What a year. 2018 marked our fourth year as location-independent entrepreneurs and our third year in the wine industry. While the first two years seemed like a constant struggle for acceptance into this new world, 2018 was dancing to a different tune---we felt welcomed and appreciated for much

Return to Tokaj

Hungarian Wine

by DR MATTHEW HORKEY - November 1, 2018December 10, 2020

Reading Time: Make no mistake about it, we're crazy about Tokaj. Although it's only a three-hour drive east of Budapest, Tokaj feels a world apart. The Zemplen Mountains provide a stark contrast to the great plains of Hungary. The south slopes are covered in vineyards and engulf 27 small villages. Tokaj is