The vine cultivation in Hegyalja region was particularly improving in the 16th century. A good number of lords and highland towns endevoured to buy a land here. In the 17th century the Rákóczis contributed much to the developing of the grape-growing.

The conventional time of the harvest is the 28th October, the day of Simon and Juda. The harvest was devided between the sexes. The women and girls were picking the grapes, whereas the men were carrying them to the collection places.

The Hegyalja wine got to remote lands as early as in the Middle Ages. It was especially favoured by the Polish, Germans and the Russian, but from the 19th century England, The Netherlands and the United States of America also entered the group of the regular consumers.

The exhibition demonstrates the instruments of grape growing and processing, and the tools and processes of cask making, too.