Winemaker of the Year accolades handed over
Csaba Koch Hajós-Baja wine-growing wine region was awarded awarded by the Hungarian Wine Academy (MBA), Winemaker of the Year recognition in Hungary in Budapest on Thursday.
Zoltán Zilai, the president of the Hungarian Wine Academy, said: the award was given for the 29th time this year, the contest received more votes than ever before, and 85 percent of the MBA membership participated in it.
He added: the award does not mean recognition of the excellent quality of a wine, but can be awarded for the outstanding performance of the winning wine producer over several years, for the constant excellent quality of his wines, for their domestic and foreign successes, and for his efforts for the wine industry. This is the most prestigious domestic award that can be won by Hungarian winemakers, he underlined.
This year, the best was selected from among six candidates, in addition to the winner, Tamás Borbély (Badacsony wine region), Mihály Figula (Balatonfüred-Csopak wine region), Günzer 
Tamás (Villányi wine region), Zsolt Liptai (Pannonhalmi wine region), Beáta Nyúlné Pühra (Etyek-Buda wine region) competed for the title.
According to the information, the award, named Winemaker of the Year, was first presented in 1991 with the intention of recognizing the outstanding professional performance and years of work of a Hungarian winemaker. There is much more competition now. In addition to constant excellent quality, the results achieved at the wine competition, marketing, external and internal reputation, likability, sympathy for winemaking and, last but not least, the personality of the winemaker are important.
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