Following its success five years ago, a wine from the Jammertal Winery in Villány, a town in Hungary’s southern wine region—this time its 2018 Koh-I-Noor Merlot—once again received the highest score in the red wine category at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2026 (CMB) international wine competition, announced the Villány-based holding company.
The company highlighted that with this recognition, Jammertal Winery is the only winery in the history of the CMB to have won the world title twice at the prestigious wine competition, which has been held annually since 1994 and took place this year in Yerevan, Armenia.
During the three-day blind tasting, the 300-member international jury evaluated nearly 6,700 wines from 50 countries, making the Hungarian result particularly strong in a broad international field.
The results not only confirm the estate’s consistent world-class work but also further strengthen the Villány wine region’s position among the international elite,”
they wrote.
Photo: Jammertal Borbirtok
At the CMB, which receives more than 15,000 entries annually, wines are evaluated by a jury of international experts in a strictly controlled blind tasting. The competition aims to identify the world’s most outstanding wines and serve as a reliable guide for the industry, the trade, and consumers alike.
The CMB regards the Villány wine region as the historic center of Hungarian red wines and a key international benchmark for premium red wines.
In response to an inquiry from MTI, Jammertal Winery, a group of six companies owned by Sarolta Varjas and Róbert Szűcs, operating on 85 hectares and producing 350,000 bottles annually, stated: in recent years, it has been more difficult to bring their products to market due to the uncertainties caused first by the pandemic and then by the wars, while inflation and rising fuel prices have increased their costs. Currently, the availability of a sufficiently trained viticultural workforce represents their greatest challenge.
Nevertheless, just as in the past, they continue to “strive for the highest level of quality red wine production,” as
the owners believe that impeccable, highly enjoyable red wine never goes out of style, as it represents lasting value.
They noted that the real problem in the global and domestic wine industry is caused much more by the dumping of products that cannot be considered a luxury item.
Via MTI; Featured photo: Facebook/ Jammertal Borbirtok
