Hungary: wine festival stumbles upon success | beyondbrics

Hungary: wine festival stumbles upon success | beyondbrics:

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Hungarian vintners will be hoping for sun this weekend – not because of any harvest considerations, but because it’s the Budapest Wine Festival – a five-day extravaganza of wine, food, music and dance which started quietly on Wednesday but which will be revving up from Friday afternoon, if the skies stay clear.

“The record was two years ago, when we got 55,000 visitors, but it all depends on the weather,” says festival spokesperson Rita Olah.

Now in its 22nd year, the festival, which started off as a modest down town affair designed primarily as a marketing event for professionals, moved up into the spacious – and prestigious – Buda Castle too long ago for most to remember."

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