Private wine tours

Budapest Wine Tours to Hungary's Top Wineries

Discover Hungary's legendary wine regions the effortless way — the golden Aszú of Tokaj, the bold reds of Villány, Eger's Bull's Blood and the volcanic whites of Badacsony. A private car, bus or helicopter takes you door-to-door from Budapest or the airport; filter by region, explore the map, and book one-way or return with the driver waiting.

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Tokaj

Badacsony

Szekszárd

Tokaj

Badacsony

Szekszárd

Villány

Eger

Etyek

Villány

Eger

Etyek

More than a transfer

Let us plan the whole day

Beyond the drive, we help arrange private wine tastings, vineyard lunches and full-day itineraries tailored to your taste. In collaboration with Wine Tours of Hungary, we make sure every visit is something special.

Private tastingsReserved cellar tastings with the winemaker, matched to what you love to drink.
Vineyard lunchesA long lunch among the vines or at the estate's own restaurant.
Full-day itinerariesTwo or three wineries, sightseeing and timings planned end to end.

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A glimpse of the real, door-to-door experience — no crowds, no coach, just your own car and driver for the day.

Door-to-door from BudapestPicked up at your hotel or the airport — and brought back the same day.
Straight into the cellarPrivate tastings with the winemaker, matched to what you love to drink.
Lunch among the vinesA long vineyard lunch and full-day itinerary arranged for you.

Tokaj2h 20min from Budapest
Disznókő
Large historic AXA-owned estate around the boar-shaped rock — Tokaj's most visitor-friendly winery, open daily with a vineyard restaurant.
Tokaji Aszú 5–6 Puttonyos & dry FurmintWine tour & transfer
Tokaj2h 35min from Budapest
Tokaj-Oremus
The Tokaj estate of Spain's Vega Sicilia family — prestigious, classical wines built for ageing, from deep volcanic cellars in Tolcsva.
Mandolás dry Furmint & Tokaji AszúWine tour & transfer
Tokaj2h 20min from Budapest
Szepsy
Tokaj's benchmark producer — precise, terroir-led, age-worthy wines from master winemaker István Szepsy; appointment-only, tours end at the family's Percze restaurant.
Szent Tamás single-vineyard dry Furmint & AszúWine tour & transfer
Tokaj2h 20min from Budapest
Royal Tokaji
Historic, internationally famous estate co-founded in 1990 by wine writer Hugh Johnson — from approachable late-harvest to elite single-vineyard Aszú.
Mézes Mály 6 Puttonyos Aszú & single-vineyard winesWine tour & transfer
Tokaj2h 25min from Budapest
Demeter Zoltán Winery
Small artisanal top-grower in Tokaj old town — expressive, terroir-driven wines from ~7 ha across nine single vineyards, often named alongside Szepsy.
Single-vineyard dry Furmint, Hárslevelű & SzamorodniWine tour & transfer
Tokaj2h 20min from Budapest
Holdvölgy Winery
Premium Mád estate with a spectacular 1.8 km three-level cellar labyrinth — 'Treasure Hunt' tastings across dry and sweet styles.
Meditation dry Furmint & Culture 6 Puttonyos AszúWine tour & transfer
Tokaj2h 20min from Budapest
Sauska Tokaj
One of Hungary's most consistent modern producers, in Rátka — dry Furmint and gold-medal sparkling, with the PADI restaurant on site.
Tokaj Furmint & méthode traditionnelle sparklingWine tour & transfer
Tokaj2h 30min from Budapest
Béres Vineyard
Relaxed ~45 ha Erdőbénye estate with a purpose-built visitor centre — reliable dry and sweet Tokaj in a destination setting.
Lőcse dry Furmint, Magita late-harvest & AszúWine tour & transfer
Villány2h 45min from Budapest
Gere Attila Winery
A defining name in Villány — concentrated, oak-aged, age-worthy Bordeaux-style reds, with a 4★ wine-spa hotel on site.
Kopár Cuvée & Villány Cabernet FrancWine tour & transfer
Villány2h 45min from Budapest
Sauska Villány
Sauska's modern Villány estate — polished Bordeaux blends and the Sauska 48 restaurant, with Classic to Elite tasting programs.
Villány Cuvée 7 Bordeaux blend & Cabernet FrancWine tour & transfer
Villány2h 45min from Budapest
Bock Estate
Nine-generation Villány producer — powerful traditional oak-driven reds, a cellar restaurant and the 4★ Bock Hotel Ermitage on site.
Magnifico Merlot, Bock Cuvée & CapellaWine tour & transfer
Villány2h 50min from Budapest
Vylyan Winery
Polished, visitor-friendly Kisharsány estate on Fekete-hegy — elegant, balanced reds and a Mediterranean-style terrace.
Mandolás Cabernet Franc & Duennium blendWine tour & transfer
Villány2h 40min from Budapest
Heumann Winery
Artisanal Swiss-German family estate near Siklós — restrained, fresh, elegant reds, atypical for Villány; tastings by appointment.
Cabernet Franc, Kékfrankos & Trinitás Villányi FrancWine tour & transfer
Villány2h 45min from Budapest
Jammertal Wine Estate
High-end Villány estate specialising in ambitious Bordeaux varieties — flagship reds built for long ageing across three brands.
Koh-I-Noor & Wunderlich Bordeaux-variety redsWine tour & transfer
Eger1h 35min from Budapest
St. Andrea Winery
The leading modern Eger producer — refined, internationally competitive Egri Bikavér and Egri Csillag from the Lőrincz family.
Merengő Egri Bikavér & Egri CsillagWine tour & transfer
Eger1h 45min from Budapest
Thummerer Pincészet
A family cellar carved into a former earl's volcanic rock vaults, prized for structured Egri Bikavér and atmospheric candlelit tastings.
Age-worthy Egri BikavérWine tour & transfer
Eger1h 40min from Budapest
Kovács Nimród Winery
Serious single-vineyard Eger estate strong on Kékfrankos and Bikavér, plus a genuinely notable barrel-aged Chardonnay; wines named after jazz styles.
Monopole Rhapsody Bikavér & Battonage ChardonnayWine tour & transfer
Eger1h 35min from Budapest
Tóth Ferenc Winery
Award-decorated family Eger house — the Bikavér Superior 2013 was the first Bikavér to win Mundus Vini gold; excellent value classic styles.
Várvédő Egri Bikavér Superior & Egri CsillagWine tour & transfer
Etyek40 min from Budapest
Etyeki Kúria Borászat
The closest serious wine estate to Budapest — crisp cool-climate whites and sparkling over a glass-floored cellar, just 40 minutes from the city.
Crisp whites & sparklingWine tour & transfer
Badacsony2h 10min from Budapest
Laposa Birtok
A destination gastro-winery with dramatic Lake Balaton views and crisp volcanic whites, tasted year-round on a panoramic Wine Terrace.
Volcanic basalt whites — Kéknyelű & OlaszrizlingWine tour & transfer
Badacsony2h 15min from Budapest
Szászi Estate
Organic, low-intervention estate on Szent György-hegy — textured volcanic whites with a natural-wine sensibility.
Organic volcanic whites — Olaszrizling, Kéknyelű & skin-contactWine tour & transfer
Somló1h 55min from Budapest
Kreinbacher Birtok
Somló's state-of-the-art estate leading Hungary's traditional-method sparkling revival, alongside distinctive volcanic Juhfark from the basalt hill.
Traditional-method sparkling & JuhfarkWine tour & transfer
Somló1h 55min from Budapest
Tornai Winery
Long-established Somló specialist — mineral, powerful volcanic wines and ageworthy Juhfark, with a wine shop and private wine museum.
Juhfark (Somló) & ageworthy FurmintWine tour & transfer
Szekszárd1h 50min from Budapest
Takler Borbirtok
A powerhouse of Szekszárd reds with its own wine hotel and Primarius restaurant, renowned for bold, spicy Kékfrankos and full-bodied Bikavér.
Szekszárd reds / Kékfrankos & BikavérWine tour & transfer
Szekszárd1h 50min from Budapest
Heimann & Fiai
One of Hungary's best for featherlight, fragrant indigenous reds (Kadarka, Kékfrankos); appointment-only hilltop cellar with charcuterie and views.
Kadarka & Kékfrankos — light, fragrant indigenous redsWine tour & transfer

Stories from the road

Real wine tours we've planned

A look at the days we design — from helicopter tours of Villány to long lunches in Tokaj.

Case study

A private helicopter wine tour of Villány

A round-trip helicopter day to Hungary's red-wine capital — private tastings at Jammertal, a Michelin-guided lunch at Sauska, and a family Heritage tasting at Gere Attila.

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How your wine tour works

Pick your winery, choose how you travel, and leave the driving to us — every trip is private, fixed-price and door-to-door from Budapest or the airport.

One-way transfer

A private car straight to the winery — ideal if you're staying in the region.

Return, driver waits

Your driver waits while you tour and taste, then brings you back to Budapest.

Custom itinerary

We plan the full day — multiple cellars, lunch and private tastings arranged for you.

By helicopter

Trade the drive for a scenic flight to Tokaj, Villány, Badacsony or Szekszárd.

Hungary's wine regions, from Budapest

Seven distinct regions, each an easy private transfer from the capital — from the sweet golden wines of Tokaj to the bold reds of Villány and the volcanic whites of Lake Balaton.

Tokaj

~2h 20min northeast helicopter

The world's most storied sweet-wine region and a UNESCO World Heritage site, Tokaj is famous for golden Tokaji Aszú — once the wine of tsars and popes — and, increasingly, for bone-dry, mineral Furmint. Our private wine tours reach first-growth estates such as Disznókő, Szepsy, Royal Tokaji and Tokaj-Oremus.

Villány

~2h 45min south helicopter

Hungary's warmest region and its red-wine capital, Villány is celebrated for velvety Cabernet Franc — the local 'Villányi Franc' — and powerful Bordeaux-style blends. A wine tour here takes in landmark cellars like Gere Attila, Bock, Sauska and Vylyan, many with on-site restaurants and hotels.

Eger

~1h 35min northeast

Home of the legendary Egri Bikavér ('Bull's Blood') and the fresh, aromatic white Egri Csillag, Eger is the easiest full wine day out from Budapest. Its leading modern cellars — St. Andrea, Thummerer and Kovács Nimród — pair centuries of history with world-class winemaking.

Badacsony

~2h 10min west helicopter

On the north shore of Lake Balaton, the volcanic basalt cone of Badacsony produces some of Hungary's finest whites — Olaszrizling, Furmint and the rare, prized Kéknyelű — best enjoyed with a sweeping lake view at design-led estates such as Laposa and Szászi.

Szekszárd

~1h 50min south helicopter

A characterful red-wine region south of Budapest, Szekszárd is known for spicy Kékfrankos, its own style of Bikavér and the fragrant, near-extinct Kadarka revived by growers like Heimann and Takler — lighter and more elegant than the region's Bordeaux blends.

Somló

~1h 55min west

Hungary's smallest historic wine region is a single volcanic hill rising from the plain. Somló makes powerful, age-worthy, intensely mineral whites — above all the flagship Juhfark — plus acclaimed traditional-method sparkling, at estates like Kreinbacher and Tornai.

Etyek

~40 min west

The closest serious wine region to Budapest, Etyek is Hungary's sparkling-wine and crisp-white hub — perfect for a relaxed half-day. Estates such as Etyeki Kúria pour cool-climate Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc barely 35 km from the city.

Prefer to arrive by air? See our wine tours by helicopter to Tokaj, Villány, Badacsony and Szekszárd.

Wine tour FAQs

The price is fixed and quoted upfront when you book, based on the distance to your winery, the vehicle and whether you choose a one-way transfer or a full return day with the driver waiting. Enter your winery and party size in the planner on any winery page to see live prices.

Etyek (~40 minutes) and Eger (~1h35) are the easiest full-day trips. Tokaj, Villány, Badacsony, Somló and Szekszárd are between 1h50 and 2h45 each way and make relaxed long days or overnight stays — a private driver makes any of them comfortable, since no one has to drive after tasting.

Yes — that's the whole point. Your English-speaking driver handles the journey there and back, so everyone in your party can taste freely. Choose the return option and the driver waits at the winery while you tour and taste, then drives you home to Budapest.

Many of Hungary's top estates are tasting-by-appointment, which suits a pre-booked private transfer perfectly. Tell us your winery and dates and we'll time the transfer to your booking — or arrange the tasting and a guide for you as part of a custom itinerary.

Yes. Alongside private cars we run minibuses and full-size coaches, so a larger group can tour the wineries together in one vehicle.

Absolutely. Book the return/day-hire option and your driver stays with you for the day, so you can combine two or three cellars with lunch and some sightseeing at your own pace.

Yes — helicopter transfers run to the Tokaj, Villány, Badacsony and Szekszárd wine regions, a scenic flight straight to the vineyards. See our Wine Tours by Helicopter page for details.

Yes. Choose Budapest Airport (BUD) as your pickup and we'll collect you from arrivals with flight tracking, so you can head straight to wine country the moment you land.