1880: Noszai Hill Kadarka (South Csongrád region), Oszkár Maurer
Old Vine Chronicles/V.
The oldest plantation in the Carpatian basin that I know today has been reinvented and cultivated by a humble and instinctive Hungarian winemaker, called Oszkár Maurer. What’s more, his pre-phylloxera Kadarka vines near Szabadka (Subotica, which is now in Serbia) might testify that this variety was born on the southern edge of Hungary and spread out from there to several Hungarian wine regions like Szekszárd, Villány, Eger, Arad-Ménes and the Great Plain. But anyway, how could those plants on Noszai Hill have survived phylloxera, while complete wine regions disappeared forever in Europe in the late 19th century?