Tamás Hernyák

The Path

The estate’s move toward a distinct sparkling-wine identity is carried in Hernyák Sparkling Wine, and Tamás Hernyák’s work sits inside that shift. The style is rooted in Etyek, but it is also pointed forward, helping define a clearer regional voice through sparkling wine. Today, Tamás Hernyák is winemaker of Hernyák Birtok. The role places him in the daily discipline of the estate, where balance and precision are read alongside a larger regional purpose. In Etyek, where sparkling wine is taking on greater weight as a local expression, his work belongs to that broader effort: steady, exacting, and oriented toward definition.

The Work Today

At Hernyák Birtok, Tamás Hernyák works as winemaker. The title is plain; the task is not. It requires shaping wines that carry the estate’s own character while remaining legible as wines of place. That means keeping tradition and momentum in the same frame, along with the routine demands of cellar work and the larger job of representation. The role has composure, but it also has motion: a project still resolving into itself.

Signature

Hernyák Sparkling Wine is the signature wine tied to Tamás Hernyák. It is not just one bottling among others, but a central marker of the estate’s identity and of the region’s changing profile. The wine sits where craft meets ambition: the estate’s own expression, and part of the wider conversation around what Etyek can mean on Hungary’s wine map. Through this sparkling wine, Tamás Hernyák’s work is most directly named.

In Their Words “With its sparkling wines, Etyek will mark a distinct spot for itself on the map of Hungary in the upcoming years.”