{"id":750,"date":"2021-03-21T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/govolcanic.hu\/honnan-a-vulkanikus-borok-szeretete\/"},"modified":"2021-04-03T17:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T16:50:26","slug":"honnan-a-vulkanikus-borok-szeretete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/govolcanic.hu\/honnan-a-vulkanikus-borok-szeretete\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Why volcanic wines?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
It was very fortunate that \u00c9va Cartwright once opened a wine shop on Soml\u00f3 Hill. The place has become increasingly popular since she settled down there, with journalists lining up at its door. Without her, Hungary\u2019s smallest wine region would not be quite so resplendent\u2026<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n When you first opened your wine shop in the summer of 2012, everyone said that nothing would ever come of it. Why on earth do you want to sell wine on a hill where there\u2019s nobody living, and what kind of na\u00efve idea is it that every winemaker is going to bring their wine to you. Nevertheless, the Soml\u00f3 wine shop has been successful right from the start and its shelves were indeed lined with bottles from local winemakers. So how did this brave move come to pay off?<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n Originally, we just wanted to build a weekend house. Work was already underway, when one bright spring day, we were sitting on the terrace with friends. Hikers were coming and going, and all of them were asking where they could buy wine here. After the tenth enquiry, one of our friends said that we\u2019d be pretty daft if we didn\u2019t open a wine shop here.<\/p>\n\n And you fell in love with the idea?<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n Yes, and we didn\u2019t even spend that long discussing it. My partner at that time was a real wine lover and he backed my ideas. We were then living in London, but I stayed in Soml\u00f3, made some adjustments to the building plans and the shop opened in July. I entrusted its management to an old friend and so could go back to London.<\/p>\n\n Your original idea was to show Soml\u00f3 in its entirety, meaning that all wines produced in Soml\u00f3 would be available in the shop. What did the winemakers think of your idea?<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n Highly doubtful. People find it difficult to believe that you can go into something without any training, out of sincere, pure love. I didn\u2019t have to live from this, and my financial situation was such that it allowed me to try myself out in this unknown territory. They just watched this woman coming from America, or wherever, from England, who wanted something from them. Then it came out that this Cartwright woman was in fact Pista N\u00e9meth\u2019s daughter ( my dad, a district forester around Soml\u00f3 in the 1970s and 80s) and then they started to talk about me a little differently. I managed to achieve what I had set out to do, and now if you come and taste with me here, I can show you wines from all four sides of Soml\u00f3, in all styles and from almost every winery. At the beginning, I carried wines from all those who bottled their wine, and even now, there are only a few missing from the range.<\/p>\n\n This is part of \u00a0the English version of an article published in Hungarian by Borsmenta<\/a>\u00a0<\/p><\/figure>\n
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