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Budapest Castle District Hillside to be Converted into Vineyard

var-vineyard.jpgIn addition to the annual wine festival in the Buda castle district, they might soon be able to launch a vine festival, according to a story in tabloid Blikk. The city plans on planting vines on a 0.7 hectare slope on the western side of the district soon (current and future appearance to the left), with Ft 14 million (€49,000) set aside for maintenance over the next four years. Although traditionally Kadarka was grown in the region, Kékfrankos will be grown as it is not as sensitive to what are probably all the pollutants in the local air, Iván András Bojár, a member of the Budapest council told the tabloid. According to the plans, the vineyard will even be open to the public, which given how other open areas have fared, might not be the best idea.

  1. klara says:

    would you want to consume the pollutants with the fruit/juice that may kill the plants??? whose brainchild was this?

  2. wolfi says:

    Pollutants (to us) may not be too bad for the grapes.

    I remember years ago the taste of the wines from the Rhine valley changed markedly because of the introduction of unleaded gasoline – there are a lot of cars passing through that valley just below the vinyards …

  3. Planet of the Grapes says:

    Take the seeds out of them grapes so people can eat them. This is an order.

 
 
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