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History

Our Szekszárd based family winery has been established in 1994. Most of our estate is situated in Sióagárd – where our best roze's are made, and also in the slopes of Görögszó, where our best red wines come from.

We have bought our initial estate of 3.3 hectares of Kékfrankos vineyard in the beginning of the 90’s, following the work and heritage of our grand parents. This is how we have started the Dúzsi family winery. We then gradually built up the winery step by step, to what it is today. Initially we have done all the wine making processes ourselves as a family, until we could slowly afford to start employing other staff members. Albeit, we are still very much present and involved at all stages of the wine making processes. Currently it's 5 of us working in and around the cellars mainly, however our youngest son Lőrinc, also often gets involved besides his university commitments.

With the number of children, our estate has also gradually expanded. Currently we are a proud family of 7 children in total. Réka and László living independently already, and they also added 3 grand children to our family.
There are family enterprises, and entrepreneurial families. We define ourselves as the latter one. We believe an entrepreneurial vein and work ethic is running in family, and we pride ourselves in living and working accordingly.

We currently own and work on a 40 hectar land, whilst also integrating grapes from an additional 20 hectar via our contracted partners.

We work with a wide range of grape varieties, and we love experimenting with various new blends. Our varieties include: Kékfrankos (Blaufrankische), Merlot, Cabernet sauvignon, Zweigelt, Ezerfürtű, Olaszrizling (Welschriesling), Pinot noir, Zenit, Blauburger, Syrah, Cabernet franc, Kadarka, Portugieser, Menoire, Alibernet.

We have built our classic wine processing factory in 2001, in Sióagárd-Lányvár, that enables fast and gentle processing of our produce locally. The main building itself is built in front of 3 loess cellars, that provide excellent climate for the barrel ageing processes of our red wines. Additionally, we also own another few loess cellars in the same town, where we also store and barrel age our wines.

Sióagárd is a unique “cellar-town”, that offers a spectacular spot of interest to the wine tourists, who visit the area. The cellars are situated in a layered structure that embraces a loes hill around, in a number of “floors” height. Each of these cellars provide ideal climate to the wines of the local growers. This is also where our cellar called “Probus Cellar” is situated, where we hold our professional wine tasting sessions & welcome our guests and wine fans.

In Kadarka Street, in Szekszard city, we have also purchased, saved and renovated a 150 year old cellar for the later generations. We have kept all of it's original features & we have built an additional cottage next to it. We hold professional wine tastings in this building too for those interested in our range of wines. This is where we also store our historical collections in an attempt to pay respect to the work of our ancestors.

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Vineyards

Our first wine was the 1992 Kékfrankos-Merlot Cuvée, which won a gold medal at the then important National Wine Competition in 1994. With this wine I gained fame and recognition as an independent winemaker in the profession. I made mainly red wines, and also from Kékfrankos, because I had this variety. Our assortment consisted of Kékfrankos and Kékfrankos based cuvées. Our initial winemaking philosophy was to produce a variety of varieties from the existing raw material and make the most of it.

 

Making roses is the next challenge

In 1996, by chance, we started making the rosé. The fermentation tank proved to be too small for the amount of grapes harvested, and this is when we first drained the must from Kékfrankos. This rose, with a taste unknown to the market until then, did so well that we won the tests and wine competitions with it. Today, roye accounts for a significant portion of our turnover.

With these wines we have succeeded in several famous competitions abroad. To date, we have won 36 medals at the “le Modial du Rosé” rosé world competition in Cannes.

 

Red and white

In addition to this, we are very proud of our red wines, which we make with great care. We try to rely on local varieties such as. Kékfrankos, Kadarka, which, while preserving the Szekszárd flavors, are supplemented with world varieties, Merlot, Cabernet, Pinot noir. Greek Our 2009 Cabernet Franc & Cabernet Sauvignon blend won the Grand Prix and the “Prix Special Hongrie” award at the most prestigious international wine competition in Boredeaux in 2013. The 2011 vintage of this Greek-word blend, although the first Hungarian wine in the history of the oldest French international wine competition, the prestigious Vinalies Internationales in Paris, won the grand prize in the red wine category.

Our red wines have won about the same number of prestigious international and domestic awards as our rosé.

In the case of large red wines, we strive for complexity, ie that the constituent elements are in harmony, thus making large wines drinkable as well.

With our lighter rosé wines and white wines, we strive for freshness, freshness, and varietal character, we like to make real thirst-quenching wines where our special wine philosophy prevails;
"The good rose is that after eating a glass, one cannot get rid of the thought of having to drink another."

We strive for complexity, taste length and ripeness in our premium rosé wines.

In the case of our super premium roses, we strive for barrel maturation, especially high complexity, decades of maturation.

 

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Winemaking

Our winery mainly focuses on grape varieties that are typical of the Szekszárd wine region, however we also work with many other local and traditional varieties. We enjoy experimenting, creating different new blends.

We make roze wines from almost all red grape varieties that are available to us. Most of our roze wines have been awarded amazing results on major international wine competitions.

We are also very proud of our red wines, where we mostly rely on traditional Szekszárd varieties, such as Kékfrankos (Blaufrankische) & Kadarka. With our red wines, we aim to retain and highlight the local taste notes, and characteristics, whilst slightly completing these with other classic, major varieties such as merlot, cabernet, or Pinot Noir.

Our Görögszó 2009 vintage (Cabernet franc & Cabernet sauvignon blend) has been awarded the most prestigious gold medal and “Prix Special Hongrie” on the most recognised international wine contest in Bordeaux, in 2013. Whilst the 2011 vintage of the same wine has also won the world's most recognised international wine contest in Paris, the Vinalies Internationales, in 2015. In other words, our Görögszó wine was qualified as the best wine from 3575 wines, from 40 countries.

We generally achieve the same international recognition with our red wines, than with our rose wines. Our full bodied red wines are made with complexity in mind, as well as harmony of the different features, characteristics, and varieties in a blend.

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