With its four wine regions where viticulture goes back to a thousand-year-old history, Southern Transdanubia is the home mainly of red wines. The Villány and Siklós wine region on both slopes of Nagyharsány Hill form an organic whole. This is the area where the sub-Mediterranean climate is most effective. The early spring, the long summer and the soils - sandy loess on the limestone slopes - all exert their effect to produce the finest red wines of the country. Characteristic wines of the region, Kékoportó, Meriot, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir, are on the stronger, full-bodied side with an intense bouquet and high alcohol content.  

The Mecsek-alja wine region, stretching from the border of Somogy County to Tolna, is perhaps the only exception, since fine white wines are also made from the grapes grown on the southern slopes of the Mecsek mountain. The number of sunshine hours is high, rain is moderate, and the vineyard and cells which have a Mediterranean touch, the loess and clayey soil on the hard rock bed, all combine to produce the fine Olaszrizling, Furmint, Chardonnay and the unique Pécs Cirfandli.

The Szekszárd wine region is one of the oldest in Hungary. "Passionate love calls for the wines of Szekszárd", a Hungarian writer said. The hills and valleys with their loess and clayey soil are especially amenable for growing red wines, which are full-bodied, fiery and with high alcohol content.

If compared to the historical Szekszárd wine region, the Tolna wine region is the youngest one. Yet the viticultural traditions here are as old as around Szekszárd and Villűny, and in favourable years the vintage rivals theirs. Wine-growners here like experiment and come up with new and new specialities. On the loess ridges along the Danuve, on southern Mezőföld at Dunaföldvár, Bölcske, Dunaszentgyörgy and Paks fine Olaszriszling are made.

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