Baranya Fun Tour
The Hidden Wine Village in Mecseknádasd
The House of Crafts and Art Courtyard
The courtyard has been set up in the fashion of a mediaeval marketplace. The inner courtyard is an ideal venue for open-air events and shows. There is an entrance from the House of Crafts to the cellar.
Jump to the top of the pageWine Treasury
A cellar of a base area of 240 square metres is attached to the House of Crafts, and can be accessed via two entrances. The Local Government of Mecseknádasd set up a wine treasury in the cellar, where local small wine producers present their products, and offer them for tasting. The Wine Treasury is operated by the Association of Grape and Wine Growers of Mecseknádasd. This organisation also holds a wine competition in April or May every year, where the largest number of wine samples are judged upon in the region. The producers who are registered with the Association offer not only wine tasting, but also a village wining and dining experience as defined in the relevant legal regulations. This means that in addition to aromatic Mecsek wines, they treat visitors to home-made smoked meats, peasant’s suppers and wine snacks.
Jump to the top of the pageWinery Exhibition Area
The winery exhibition Area consists of three major parts. Two of these are exhibition cellars: a tasting area with barrels, and an area suitable for storing bottles, which also includes the reception. An exhibition kitchen is attached to the latter, equipped with period furniture. A bridge leads from the exhibition cellars to the exhibition Area. This bridge crosses the area that used to house the mill wheel. As a reminder, a picture of a mill wheel hangs on one wall, with a sand-blasted picture of a stream opposite, illuminated from the back by the light well.
The third main area is the mill square (the exhibition area), where mill equipment and tools are exhibited. Models of the mill are placed on free-standing columns across the courtyard.
All rooms are accessible, and door handles are also placed so as to facilitate access. Additionally, information boards written in Braille are mounted in every room to assist blind and sight-impaired visitors.
Jump to the top of the pageWine Experience Park
The cellar used to be attached to a mansion, which was adjoined with the former water-mill. These buildings were closely linked to the cellar system under the building, and formed a single business unit, which means that the modern arrangement is essentially in line with the traditional activities. In this cellar at Mecseknádasd, guests will be introduced to all elements of traditional and modern wine production, and also to the former water-mill and the traces of its earlier operation. One part of this area is intended to introduce the building’s original function as a water-mill, as it played a significant role in the local wine culture. The layout has changed quite a lot over the past decades, and its functionality has also changed, but it would be quite impossible to understand the lifestyle that wine and grape growing represented throughout the ages without familiarising with the traditional craft. The other part is inside the mill, on the cellar level, and consists of the wine cellar, the wine tasting area, and the winery exhibition area.
Parts of the Experience Park
- Reception, information area, and shop: the reception, information and shop area of the wine exhibition area and the mill museum
- Exhibition area: the tools and process of winemaking are displayed here
- Wine tasting area: This area can admit 80, and is furnished in a traditional manner
- Accessible toilet: separately for ladies and gents
- Water-mill Museum: an exhibition area with displays introducing traditional water milling, situated in the former water-mill
- Wine cellar and exhibition area: wines stored in traditional barrels
- Summer kitchen: traditional kitchen and food preparation area supporting outdoor eating
- Tool storage on the top floor of the former mill, separated by a wooden structure. Total area of the experience park: 369 m2
Grape Pálinka Distillery Museum of Mecseknádasd
The museum consists of two main parts: an open barn, in which tools used for grape cultivation are displayed, and the pálinka distillery, which introduces the tools and process of distilling grape pálinka. This is the most practical way of using the pomace that remains after wine-making. Traditional copper pots and auxiliary tools are also on display here so that visitors can get a comprehensive picture of authentic contemporary production methods.
Throughout history, successful businesses were those that managed to think in terms of systems. In this sense, Mecseknádasd is in a favourable position with regard to viticulture, because locally grown grape is made into wine on the spot, and the village also boasts a pálinka distillery and a barrel-maker who manufactures wine barrels of excellent quality.
The museum also has an area dedicated to pálinka tasting, including an outdoor terrace, which provides an outstanding environment for tasting the freshly made pálinkas.
Jump to the top of the pageCellar lookout and wine presentation area
Hetényi Wine Cellars is situated at the end of the village closest to Óbánya, in a pretty natural environment. From here, an accessible road leads to the vineyard on the hill, where seasonal work processes associated with pruning and cultivation are demonstrated throughout the year.
A set of stairs that leads through the vineyard and an accessible path both lead to the vaulted cellar at the top of the hill, which enjoys the highest position in the entire village. It also boasts the Cellar Lookout, offering picturesque views of the eastern ranges of the Mecsek Mountains. Of course, the cellar itself is not to be missed, either.
Returning to the main building, the restaurant and the cellar, filled with wooden barrels, both offer a selection of seasonal wines, and visitors can taste bottled wines in the Cellar Lookout. While you are getting more familiar with our range of wines, you will be treated to some secrets of traditional viticulture, local history and the wine-making process.
Jump to the top of the pageProject owners
Local Government of Mecseknádasd
7695 Mecseknádasd, Felszabadulás utca 2/1.Tel.: (+36)72/563-100
Fax: (+36)72/463-047
E-mail: pmhivnad@axelero.hu
Web: www.mecseknadasd.hu
WCSP Borkereskedés Ltd.
7695 Mecseknádasd 180. hrsz
Tel.: +36 72 / 566-035
Fax: +36 72 / 566-036
Web:www.weklerpince.hu
Indivinum Bortermelő, Forgalmazó és Szolgáltató Ltd.
7695 Mecseknádasd, Rékavölgyi út 17.
Tel.: +36 20 / 222-8481
Fax: +36 72 / 463-618
Web: www.indivinum.hu
