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Royal Tokaji building on memory
Royal Tokaji building on memory
“After the collapse of Communism in 1990, Royal Tokaji was the first foreign-backed producer in a region with a glorious past but an uncertain future. Two decades on, Margaret Rand charts the challenges, setbacks, and triumphs of a company that has played a crucial role in both the reinvention and the restoration of a lost wine culture, through dry and late-harvest offerings, as well as sublime single-vineyard Aszús and Eszencias. “It dawned only slowly, going around Royal Tokaji with managing director István Turóczi, that he has the most incredible memory. He can tell you exactly when the rain started in...
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Top 10 New Products in May
Top 10 New Products in May
"Royal Tokaji has launched a limited edition, red lacquered wooden gift box containing its collection of all five 2008 Single Vineyard Aszú wines – Mézes Mály, Szt Tamás, Nyulázsó, Betsek, Birsalmás – and the Gold Label 6 puttonyos Aszú. "Only 1,000 of these wooden boxes are available as Royal Tokaji made just over 1,000 bottles of Birsalmás in 2008. "The 2008 vintage offer will be the last such offer, as we know it, comprising all our 5 Single Vineyard Aszú wines, because the Tokaji weather pattern prevented the company from producing any Single Vineyard Aszú Wines in 2010, 2011 or...
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Douglas Blyde compares the culinary and wine delights of the Fat Duck and Fera at Claridge’s
Douglas Blyde compares the culinary and wine delights of the Fat Duck and Fera at Claridge’s
"Occuring within days, I was lucky enough to experience arguably two of England's finest chefs calibrate dishes to complement complex ferment from noble estates. These were served in the presence of two of the trade's most celebrated raconteurs. "'The Fat Duck' surrendered their sixteenth-century dining room of 42 covers (attended by no fewer than 43 chefs) for an evening hosted by Hugh Johnson OBE of the Royal Tokaji Company, while 'Fera' at Claridge's was the just-beautified, art deco setting for a more intimate lunch for 12 hosted by Dom Perignon's chef de cave, Richard Geoffroy. Johnson founded Royal Tokaji in...
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For the chop: Jared Brown’s last meal
For the chop: Jared Brown’s last meal
"I'd start my meal with a cocktail, the appropriately named Last Wish. It's an equal mix of Sipsmith gin and Royal Tokaji Essencia wine, with an orange twist. It's said that popes sip this wine on their deathbed from a silver spoon. "I tend to get obsessed with certain dishes, cooking and eating them until the recipe is just right. One of these, which has really stuck with me, is a lamb chop dish. A mixture of mint, garlic and pine nuts is gently toasted, then stuffed into the meat through the layer of flavoursome fat. "My wife and I...
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25th Anniversary Restaurant Poll, Most Popular Port & Dessert Brands
25th Anniversary Restaurant Poll, Most Popular Port & Dessert Brands
Royal Tokaji ranked number 15 in Wine & Spirits Most Popular Port & Dessert brands in the Restaurant Poll Edition.
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Wind of Change: The 2014 Most Admired Wine Brands
Wind of Change: The 2014 Most Admired Wine Brands
"With four times the respondents as in previous years and many of them willing to discuss the reasons behind their admiration, big sales haven't necessarily converted to big love from the academy. "This year Drinks International's World's Most Admired Wine Brands report has undergone a metamorphosis. The voting is more robust, the number of academy members has quadrupled, the survey has expanded and the results are telling. "The voting academy -- comprising masters of wine, sommeliers, educators, and journalists -- all rose to the occasion in contributing to the poll. "Royal Tokaji Wine Company came in at number 25 in...
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Sweet Life: Tokaji’s Triumphant Return
Sweet Life: Tokaji’s Triumphant Return
t was another bone-chilling winter in Northern Hungary, yet among the winemakers of Tokaj this year, hearts were warm and spirits ebullient. For deep in their cellars, bubbled barrel upon barrel of new wine. The 2013 harvest was glorious. Climatic conditions in autumn proved ideal for noble rot, yielding a bumper crop of aszú berries (shrivelled grapes whose sugars are concentrated to ambrosial levels by sun, wind and the Botrytis cinerea fungus), essential for their inimitable sweet wines – Tokaji Aszú, a nectar redolent of honey, spice and tropical fruits once extolled by France’s Louis XIV as “The Wine...
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Celebrate New Year’s Eve with these fine wines
Celebrate New Year’s Eve with these fine wines
"Wine collectors celebrate New Year’s Eve with their very best wines; you can join the fun with these superb selections. "...Bring your New Year’s Eve dinner to a sweet finish with a glass of the 2009 Royal Tokaji Mad Cuvee. This late-harvest wine is named for the Hungarian town of Mad, where Royal Tokaji has its winery and vineyards. Its enticing lime and vanilla scent, and opulent honeyed texture and flavor are underscored with acidity that leaves a clean, dry finish. Its half-bottle format is the perfect size for a small dinner party, too." To read more, click here.
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Class of 2013: The most outstanding wines, spirits, beers, and ciders of the year
Class of 2013: The most outstanding wines, spirits, beers, and ciders of the year
"This year has been a whirlwind of tastings and more tastings -- and the products just keep getting better and better. Our editors and guest panelists were engaged with stunning wines, amazing craft spirits, knock-out beers and more throughout a busy year of sipping and savoring (and, occasionally, gulping). Here are our choices for the top products of the year -- the true class of 2013! "Royal Tokaji Wine Company 2008 5 Puttonyos Aszu, Tokaji, Hungary"
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Imported Wineries of the Year
Imported Wineries of the Year
"When Hugh Johnson began organizing Royal Tokaji in 1989, the region was known to most wine lovers only through mentions in old books; decades of Communist rule had obliterated its historic greatness. Johnson set about recovering all the pre-Communist information he could find, working with Ben Howkins, a fellow Brit and MW who joined the company in 1993 as the director of the estate. They also hired Károly Ats, a local with an intimate knowledge of the vineyards through his years of working for the state. "With Ats’s experience and the discovery of an old map that set forth a...
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