Dear Customers!

We would like to introduce to You the House of Royal Wines and Cellar Museum, which is established by Royal Wines Ltd. in the Buda Castle, on 1.400 square metres. The real thing to be admired in the House of Royal Wines and Cellar Museum, under the surface are the wine cellars which belonged to the Royal Castle as well as to the citizens who lived in the territory of the Renaissance era of Buda. These ancient cellars of the Buda Castle, after the excavations, were tested by Mr László Zolnay and his team, and today can be easily walked around. Speciality of the place is, that it was an existing wine cellar already in the 14th century. There are many cellar rooms, reception and wine tasting halls, casemates, and corridors where there are demonstrations, exhibitions, permanent and periodical programs, serving as introduction places of the Hungarian wine-, drink and gastronomy-culture, the craft-traditions, - generally speaking the so called material culture of Hungary. Visitors can have a general information on the 6 wine regions, as well as the 22 wine districts of Hungary. The most considerable wine makers, wine styles are introduced, as well as there is information on the Hungarian champagne. The indineous grape kinds, which were grown in the medieval ages: Juhfark, Bálint, Kövérszőlő, Királyszőlő, Piros és Fehér Lisztes - are mentioned. There is information on the medieval crafts in connection with the wine making: the coopers, wheel wrights, saddlers, rope makers, as well as on those who delivered the barrels into the cellars.

Visitors can be acquanted with: the role of the Jewish quarter of Buda in the wine trade of Hungary, and in the production of Kosher wines and snaps. There is also a possibility to see the gastronomy connected to the Renaissance wine culture - especially those bakers who had a long tradition in the Buda Castle.
The campagne production, which began in Pozsony in 1825, has a close connection  with 
 wine culture, however the most famous representative is the Törley Champagne Factory, established by Mr József Törley in 1882. 
The champagne production has a separate demonstration room in our museum. Further the
process of the snaps/palinka making in Hungary, is demonstrated.
The enterieurs arranged in the smaller cellar- rooms, reflect an authentic atmosphere of the  old Buda's inns and grape press houses. This Cellar Museum is the first, where the Orders of Hungarian wines are introduced, visitors can be acquanted with the capes and the symbols of them.
Besides the wine-, champagne-, and snaps tasting - it is possible to buy these drinks in the shop of the Cellar Museum.
The cultural importance of the House of Royal Wines and Cellar Museum is extended by the possibility of arranging professional demonstrations, lectures, wine-tastings, or to organise
company events with serving meal also, in the Knight room, which has capacity of 100 persons, as well as in our lecture room of capacity: 80 persons - technical conditions for these programs and events could be fully granted by us.

Yours faithfully,

House of Royal Wines and Cellar Museum