CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Tarcal it runs 94 km to Tarcal; allow about 1 h 36 of riding. It goes by way of Oremus Cellars, Ungvári Wine Cellar and back through Oremus Cellars. It crosses from Hungary into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Tokaj is the place where the world's first classified wine region was drawn on a map, in 1737, long before Burgundy or Bordeaux got round to the idea. The wine country of Tokaj-Hegyalja lies in the far north-east of Hungary, where the Zemplén hills, old volcanoes worn down into rounded cones, fall away to the plain at the meeting of the Tisza and Bodrog rivers. Tarcal and Tokaj sit at the foot of the slope, and the vines climb the south-facing hills above them, in a patchwork of terraces, stone walls and small plots.
Read the complete Tokaj Wine Region write-up.
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Tokaj Wine Region is where the day begins. Next is Oremus Cellars.
Tolcsva is a quiet village in the Tokaj wine region of northeastern Hungary, on the slopes of the Zemplén hills above the Bodrog river. The Oremus cellars here are among the most famous in the region: a network of tunnels cut into the volcanic rock over centuries, their walls black with the noble mould that thrives in the damp, steady cold. The estate has been owned since the 1990s by the family behind Vega Sicilia, one of Spain's most celebrated wineries, and it has become a showcase for the revival of Tokaji after the communist decades.
Read the complete Oremus Cellars write-up.
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Oremus Cellars comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ungvári Wine Cellar.
Sátoraljaújhely is a town split in two by a river and a border. The Ronyva stream divides it into a Hungarian half and a Slovak half, Slovenské Nové Mesto, and the line became a national frontier after the First World War, when streets and gardens were cut in two. Today the border is open and easy to cross, and a pleasant walk takes you from one country to the other along the bank. The town sits at the northern tip of the Tokaj wine region, where the Zemplén hills fall to the plain, and it is a good starting point for exploring that country.
Read the complete Ungvári Wine Cellar write-up.
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about 47 km into the recorded legs you reach Ungvári Wine Cellar. Next is back through Oremus Cellars.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Oremus Cellars write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Oremus Cellars, late in the day. Next is Tokaj Wine Region.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tokaj Wine Region write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tokaj Wine Region. That is the ride.
Tokaj Wine Region → Oremus Cellars is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Oremus Cellars → Ungvári Wine Cellar is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ungvári Wine Cellar → back through Oremus Cellars is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Oremus Cellars → Tokaj Wine Region is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.