Monor

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Accessory grape varieties

Terroir

• The Monor vineyard area lies on a range of hills situated on the southwestern edge of the Cserhát Mountains, within the Gödöllő–Monor hill country, at an average elevation of 200 metres above sea level.
• The soil consists of Upper Pleistocene typical loess, sandy slope-loess, loessic sand, and drift sand as well as wind-deposited compacted sand, reaching a depth of 10–30 metres.
• The productive topsoil is rust-brown forest soil and calcareous forest-remnant chernozem, containing large quantities of dolomite and small amounts of illitic clay minerals.
• On the hill ridges, the groundwater table lies everywhere deeper than 10 metres.
• The mean annual temperature is 11.6 °C, mean annual rainfall is 500 mm, and the number of sunshine hours amounts to 2,000 hours per year.

• Among the vineyards planted on Monor's Strázsa Hill, there have traditionally been cellars hewn into the loess, which are well suited to maintaining an optimal temperature of 10–11 °C, and approximately one thousand such cellars can be found in the town of Monor.
• The beginning of viticulture in the delimited area can be traced to the fifteenth century, when vineyard plantings were carried out following the clearance of extensive forests.
• On the modern plantings of Száraz-hegy, on the outskirts of the villages of Monorierdő and Bénye, international varieties are found alongside traditional Hungarian ones.

• The wines are elegant in appearance, rich in alcohol, finely structured in acidity, long on the finish, and display the floral and fruit aromas and flavours characteristic of their variety.
• The wines of this site can be enjoyed young, yet their qualities fully develop with extended ageing.

• The higher mineral content and the mineral character of the wines are attributable to the soil conditions, and can be linked to the distinctive soil characteristics of the Monor growing site.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

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Sources

• Specification (EUR-Lex, single document)
• National product specification (PDF) — agrarminiszterium
• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-HU-N1638
• Official trade body site — Kunsági Borvidék Hegyközségi Tanácsa