Intangible heritage associated with viticulture and winery

The area is defined by two wine regions, the Bükkalja and the Eger Wine Region. Both were already famous wine producing regions in the Middle Ages.In addition to the built values associated with wine, we also need to highlight the intangible heritage associated with wine, which has been left to us partly in legends and tales (such as the history of the name Bikavér in Eger) and partly in traditions – which are mainly related to the methods of winemaking and the harvest programmes in which the area still abounds today.Nowadays, both wine regions have wine festivals that attract hundreds of people, which further capture the knowledge that is still alive.

There were once thousands of cellars in Miskolc.Some of these were not only used to store the wines produced in Bükkalja, but since the city was an important part of the transport route, the mainly Greek and Jewish traders also stored here some of the Tokaj and Eger wines to be transported to Poland and Russia.These mer­chants lived in closed communities, and their descendants in the region continue to inherit their traditions.