Eger Hungary - Where wine is cheaper than water

We took a day trip out to Eger.  It's a city in Hungary that is famous for it's wines, especially the Bikaver or "Bulls Blood".  Since we were going to do some wine tasting and they have we took the two hour train from Budapest.  We arrived in the city which was a pretty little city, grabbed some lunch and then took a little "trolley" to Szépasszonyvölgy or the "Valley of Beautiful Women". 

All aboard the wine express!

 I'm not exactly sure where that name came from, a more accurate description might be the Valley of wine cellars. Side by side built into the hills are little wine cellars where you can go in and taste wines from all of the different wine makers.  The tasting pours were very generous and generally cost less than a glass of water would. 

 

 Of course you can buy some wine to take home, but why buy a glass bottle when you can get them in plastic bottles in sizes anywhere from 1 to 5 liters!  It felt kind of strange buying a two liter of wine at first but then I got to thinking I'd rather the weight I was carrying be from the wine than the glass bottle.  Plus what we got was around $10 US or less anyway.

So after grabbing some two liters for the road is was back to Budapest via the train.  Eger was very fun, the wine cellars were very cool and we will be back to stock up at some point.