📍 Berehove
A town of Hungarian wine tradition near volcanic hills.
Berehove is a town in Transcarpathia where vines grow on volcanic foothills, in volcanic, clay and loam soils. At Muzhievo nearby, the vineyards sit at 100 to 250 m and get up to 650 mm of rain a year.
The wine tradition is old: a royal order of 1342 required Berehove's inhabitants to send 10 barrels of wine a year to Mukachevo. Chateau Chizay, built in 1995 on the site of a 17th-century winery, farms 272 ha in three terroirs and makes about 1.6 million bottles a year.
Small family estates nearby include Nota Bene in Muzhievo, with 2 ha and cellars over 300 years old.
How it connects to Wine
📍 Berehove ← grows in ← 🍇 Hárslevelű → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 📍 Zakarpattia
- Grapes
- 🍇 Furmint, 🍇 Hárslevelű, 🍇 Kadarka, 🍇 Traminer
Frequently asked questions
What did the 1342 royal order demand?
10 barrels of wine a year sent from Berehove to Mukachevo.
How big is Chateau Chizay?
272 ha in three terroirs, about 1.6 million bottles a year.
How much rain falls at Muzhievo?
Up to 650 mm a year.
What to read next
- 🍇 Traminer — An ancient white variety, listed in VIVC as Savagnin blanc; Gewürztraminer is its aromatic pink-berried form.
- 🍇 Furmint — A white grape from Hungary, the main variety of Tokaj alongside Hárslevelű: 4,000 ha, 5.9 % of the country's vineyards (2015); called Šipon in Slovenia.
- 🍇 Hárslevelű — A white grape from Hungary, the second main variety of Tokaj alongside Furmint, and its offspring; the name means "linden-leaved".
- 🍇 Kadarka — A red grape of Hungary and the Balkans; 3,169 ha in Bulgaria, where it is called Gamza (2009); part of Szekszárdi Bikavér.
Similar
📍 Serednie · 📍 Vynohradiv (Chorna Hora) · 📍 Uzhhorod · 📍 Mukachevo · 📍 Tokaj (Slovakia) · 📍 Zakarpattia
Sources
- Mind.ua: GI «Закарпаття / Закарпатське вино» registered
- Держпродспоживслужба: Закон «Про виноград, вино та продукти виноградарства» (2026)
- OIV country statistics
- Wine Tourism - Transcarpathia
- Odessa Journal - Wineries of Transcarpathia
- Karpaty.info - Berehove district