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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A 178 km round trip from Sátoraljaújhely - roughly 3 h 03 in the saddle. The stops in between: Oremus Cellars, Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc, Tolcsva Wine Museum Cellars and Tokaj Wine Region. It crosses from Slovakia into Hungary - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
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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Ungvári Wine Cellar 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.
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Oremus Cellars comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc.
Some wine regions are famous for a grape. Tokaj is famous for rot. Here in north-eastern Hungary, where the volcanic Zemplén hills meet the Great Plain and the Bodrog flows into the Tisza, autumn mists from the rivers encourage noble rot on the grapes, shrivelling them and concentrating their sugar. The berries, picked one by one, become aszú, and the sweet wine made from them has been celebrated for centuries. A line attributed to Louis XIV calls it the wine of kings and the king of wines.
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about 47 km into the recorded legs you reach Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc. Next is Tolcsva Wine Museum Cellars.
Under the village of Tolcsva, in the foothills of the Zemplén mountains, there are wine cellars cut into volcanic rock. The Tokaj region in the north-east corner of Hungary is one of the oldest wine landscapes in Europe, and UNESCO listed it in 2002 as the Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape. The soil is volcanic, the hills are covered in vines, and the villages are full of cellars that run deep into the soft tuff. The temperature underground stays cool and constant, which is exactly what sweet wine needs.
Read the complete Tolcsva Wine Museum Cellars write-up.
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Tolcsva Wine Museum Cellars, about halfway. Next is Tokaj Wine Region.
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 sits at 90 km, about halfway. Next is back through Tolcsva Wine Museum Cellars.
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Read the complete Tolcsva Wine Museum Cellars write-up.
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back through Tolcsva Wine Museum Cellars comes up about 108 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc.
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Read the complete Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc write-up.
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about 129 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc. Next is back through Oremus Cellars.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Oremus Cellars write-up.
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back through Oremus Cellars, late in the day. Next is Ungvári Wine Cellar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ungvári Wine Cellar write-up.
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The route ends here after 178 km.
Ungvári Wine Cellar → Oremus Cellars is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Oremus Cellars → Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc → Tolcsva Wine Museum Cellars is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tolcsva Wine Museum Cellars → Tokaj Wine Region is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tokaj Wine Region → back through Tolcsva Wine Museum Cellars is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tolcsva Wine Museum Cellars → back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc → back through Oremus Cellars is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Oremus Cellars → Ungvári Wine Cellar is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.