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INTERVIEW: Charlie Mount from Royal Tokaji joins Joel Riddell on Dining Around
INTERVIEW: Charlie Mount from Royal Tokaji joins Joel Riddell on Dining Around
Charlie Mount from Royal Tokaji joins Joel Riddell on Dining Around to discuss the wines of Royal Tokaji and the history of these legendary sweet wines from Hungary. Click here to listen to the full interview.
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24th Annual Restaurant Poll – Most Popular Port & Dessert Brands
24th Annual Restaurant Poll – Most Popular Port & Dessert Brands
Royal Tokaji ranks number 17 on the list of most popular port and dessert brands in Wine & Spirits Magazine's 24th Annual Restaurant Poll. The poll gives insight on wine trends and includes the hottest wines in America's most popular restaurants.
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FrontRunners: From the Robb Cellar
FrontRunners: From the Robb Cellar
"Royal Tokaji is of relatively recent origin, but the traditions that inform its dessert wines date back to the 17th century, when battle prevented vintners in the Tokaj-Hegyalja region of northeastern Hungary from harvesting their fruit. The result was a late-harvest wine of startling beauty that, later, Prince Ferenc Rákóczi II of Transylvania would use as a diplomatic tool in his dealings with Peter the Great of Russia and Louis XIV of France. With the Communist takeover of the Hungarian government in 1949, production of these wines degenerated; however, after the revolution of 1989, author and wine critic Hugh Johnson...
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Hungarian Lessons: The Historic Tokaji Wines of Hungary are Worth Mastering
Hungarian Lessons: The Historic Tokaji Wines of Hungary are Worth Mastering
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Royal Tokaji: Tradition meets the future in a new facility for an audacious Tokaj producer
Royal Tokaji: Tradition meets the future in a new facility for an audacious Tokaj producer
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12 Reasons to Look Beyond the Usual Wine Selections
12 Reasons to Look Beyond the Usual Wine Selections
It's entirely possible to go through life eating nothing but the most familiar foods, reading books by the customary best-selling authors or listening to a stock set of composers. Taking great pleasure in the same things over and over is not a bad thing. Similarly, many people are content to drink only well-known wines...here are a dozen obscure grapes that are the foundation of some wonderful wines and will reward intrepid explorers. FURMINT, not to be confused with fumin, is the great white grape of Hungary. It’s a crucial constituent in the lavish sweet wine Tokaji aszu, and increasingly is...
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Hungarian Dry Whites? Forge Ahead
Hungarian Dry Whites? Forge Ahead
"Who even knew Hungary made dry white wines? The country is best known for Tokaji aszu, gorgeously honeyed, lavishly sweet wines of such balance and precision that they can accompany savory meals. The history of this legendary wine stretches back centuries, and most likely, near the beginning, the wines were more dry than sweet. Now, in the post-Communist age, Hungary is making dry whites again, and some of the wines are stunningly distinctive and delicious." "...2007 furmint from Royal Tokaji, with beguiling aromas of exotic fruit, Asian spices and anise." For the entire article click here.
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Sommelier’s Choice, Top Releases of 2009
Sommelier’s Choice, Top Releases of 2009
For Sommelier Journal’s year-end selection of the best of 2009, we wanted to avoid adding to the omnipresent listings of “wines of the year” and “gold medals.” Instead, we thought our readers would be more interested in seeing meaningful recommendations from their colleagues. I asked a number of our editors and writers and other top professionals from around the world to submit their most memorable wines of 2009, along with personal tasting notes. Each was limited to one selection; the only criteria were that the wine had to be currently available in the United States and not commercially represented by...
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Sommelier’s Choice, Top Releases of 2009
Sommelier’s Choice, Top Releases of 2009
For Sommelier Journal’s year-end selection of the best of 2009, we wanted to avoid adding to the omnipresent listings of “wines of the year” and “gold medals.” Instead, we thought our readers would be more interested in seeing meaningful recommendations from their colleagues. I asked a number of our editors and writers and other top professionals from around the world to submit their most memorable wines of 2009, along with personal tasting notes. Each was limited to one selection; the only criteria were that the wine had to be currently available in the United States and not commercially represented by...
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Unfiltered: 10 Cases of Royal Tokaji 2000 Essencia Stolen
Unfiltered: 10 Cases of Royal Tokaji 2000 Essencia Stolen
A few weeks ago, 10 cases of Royal Tokaji's rare 2000 Essecia were stolen from a parked delivery truck. The bottles, whose total value is estimated at more than $34,000, are all serialized so be on the lookout for bottles in the range of Nos. 724-783. Click here for the full article
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