De a filoxéra-járvány, a két világháború és a bortermelés államosítása a 20. század végére szinte kitörölte a nagy múltú tokaji bort a nemzetközi köztudatból. Dry single-varietal Furmint (“foor-meent”) and Hárslevelü (“harsh-level-lou”) have already made waves in the European markets and continue to gain interest. These wines usually have a touch of residual sugar (usually around ~7 g/L or only 1.5 carbs per glass). The residual sugar is there to counteract the intensely high natural acidity. Project Gutenberg e-book: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13041/pg13041.html#id00174. Accessed on 10 September 2021. In Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, the titular character Erik offers Christine Daae a meal consisting of Tokay during her first visit to his home beneath the Paris Opera House.

In Slovenia, in line with the EU prohibition, the wine of Goriška Brda and Vipava regions was renamed Sauvignonasse. In the winery the bins are emptied into pneumatic presses with a proportion of the bunches destemmed. After pressing the must flows under gravity to the settling tanks. The tanks are cooled and the must allowed to settle for one or two nights. The clean must is then drawn off and fermented in either stainless steel or Hungarian oak barrels. The fermentation is temperature controlled and takes around three to five weeks.Since the collapse of the communist regimes in 1990, a number of independent wineries have been established in the Tokaj wine region. A state-owned producer continues to exist and handles approximately 20% of the overall production.

In H. Warner Allen's short story "Tokay of the Comet Year" (1930), a rare Tokay features prominently in a complex plot involving spies and a missing treaty.

The Wines

Ten years later, the same producer delighted us with a delicious Tokaji Aszú of 6 puttonyos, which indicates that inside the consecrated 0.5 l bottle is a wine with a content of 232 g/l. Fordítás: (meaning "turning over" in Hungarian), wine made by pouring must on aszú dough which has already been used to make aszú wine. Over time, this type of wine became the preferred choice of many personalities, whom today we could certainly define as influencers in their line of work. And from the very long list that indirectly endorsed Tokaji, we could list Stephen the Great, Louis XIV, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, and the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary Franz Josef.

Often referred to as the ‘Wine of Kings, King of Wines’, Royal Tokaji is becoming increasingly popular across the UK restaurant scene. As a supporter of the Gold Service Scholarship, the Hungarian winemaker recently hosted to a study trip for 2018 finalists and Trustees. We spoke with Charlie Mount, managing director of Royal Tokaji, to hear his thoughts on how the service sector is developing. előállítási, átalakítási és kidolgozási szakaszai mind a meghatározott földrajzi területen zajlanak, a A tokaji borok hosszú, dicsőséges múltra tekintenek vissza. A francia uralkodó XIV. Lajos “A királyok bora, a borok királya”-ként emlegette, míg Nagy Katalin orosz cárnő, Tokaj városában azzal a céllal alapított orosz helyőrséget, hogy védjék a szőlőterületeket, illetve biztosítsák Szentpétervárra a rendszeres aszúbor kiszállításokat. In the Traveller science fiction role-playing game Tokaj Escenzia (aka Tokaji Essencia) is considered such a fine wine that the entirety of Earth's production of it is reserved for the sole use of the Emperor of the interstellar Third Imperium. A famous event aboard an Azhanti High Lightning class cruiser involved an attempt to steal the Emperor's wine shipment. It is not known for how long vines have been grown on the volcanic soil of the fork of the rivers Bodrog and Hernád. This predates the settlement of the Magyar tribes to the region. [6] According to legend, the first aszú was made by Laczkó Máté Szepsi in 1630. However, mention of wine made from aszú grapes had already appeared in the Nomenklatura of Fabricius Balázs Sziksai which was completed in 1576. A recently discovered inventory of aszú predates this reference by five years.The Gold Service Scholarship is the best of the best. It is committed to the industry so it’s very important to us. A rich, sweet, moderately strong wine of a topaz color, produced in the vicinity of Tokay, in Hungary; also, a similar wine produced elsewhere.” Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language (Springfield, Mass.: G.&C. Merriam, 1913). See Tokay at p. 2166. Understanding the difficulty of producing our Aszú wines and the incredibly small amount of wine we can make even in a great vintage helps to explain the prices, even though they are far below their early 20th Century peak.

The Royal Tokaji Wine Company was established in 1989 in the village of Mád in the Tokaji region and is a joint venture 63 local growers led by Istvan Szepsy, who was a descendant of the legendary Mate Szepsy, and foreign investors, among those, the celebrated wine author Hugh Johnson. Hugh has put all his effort into preserving the unique values of the Tokaji region to create high quality Aszú wines and pioneered the production of Single Vineyard wines.Today, The Royal Tokaji Company has become one of the most famous wineries in Tokaji. Muscat de Lunel: 10 percent of the plantings; the most difficult grape to grow, but an important blending grape Pedigree Vineyards After fermentation the wine is stabilised and matured for several months in tanks or barrels (the proportion of new and used barrels will vary according to the wine) on the fine lees. Late harvest wines are matured for four to six months whilst Sweet Szamorodni wine spends at least one year in our historical cellars. However new wine laws enacted over the past few years have aimed to increase the quality of Tokaj wines, and to decrease the confusion on the market due to the the numerous types of Tokaj wines that were available. First the production of three and four puttonyos aszú was phased out, and now the numbers 5 and 6 will also be disappearing from bottles of aszú. The minimum residual sugar has been set at 120 grams per liter for any wine to be called an aszú, and they must be aged for a minimum of 18 months in oak. PRECIOUS ESZENCIAIn Italy the name Tocai came to refer to the grape Sauvignon vert from the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, under the designation Tocai Friulano. It is currently known simply as Friulano. The 5 years of maturation in small barrels give it a velvety feminine texture, and the sugar and acidity here are a match made in Heaven. The finish is long, majestic, with spicy and sweet notes, all of which makes you take your time and enjoy it sip by sip. Máslás: (derived from the word "copy" in Hungarian), wine made by pouring must on the lees of aszú.