Hugh Johnson receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Hugh Johnson OBE, inspiration and founder of Royal Tokaji has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Institute of Masters of Wine and The Drinks Business Magazine for his wide ranging contributions to the world of wine.
The award was presented to Hugh at Vinexpo in Bordeaux, earlier this summer, by Sarah Jane Evans MW, Chairman of The Institute of Masters of Wine, and Patrick Schmi...
Royal Tokaji was founded in 1990 by well-known author Hugh Johnson and a small group of investors, including Ben Howkins, who were inspired after the fall of Communism to restore and preserve Hungary’s precious wine legacy. Royal Tokaji’s ensuing success can largely be contributed to its unique combination of first and second growth vineyards, including one of Hungary’s two great first growths: Mézes Mály. The winery produces several exception...
Royal Tokaji owns a unique combination of first- and second-growth vineyards that have always been privately owned. At one time, first-growth vineyards Betsek and Szt. Tamás were owned by Prince Rakoczi I. His vineyards were sold in the late 1660s to save the prince, who was involved in a conspiracy that would have otherwise cost him his life. His son, Prince Rakoczi II, was able to buy back the prized land in the 1700s. Three centuries later,...
The methods and traditions of producing Tokaji wines have changed little since the 17th century when aszú berries — grapes that are infected with “botrytis cinerea,” or “noble rot,” which dries and shrivels the grapes and concentrates the sugars — were individually harvested from bunches and collected in 20-liter (55-pound) wooden tubs called puttonyos or hods. The number of puttonyos added to each barrel of base wine made from grapes unaffect...
Tokaji Through the Ages
Tokaji Aszú wine was the world’s first great sweet wine, created in the 1600s, perhaps by accident — a harvest delayed by threat of enemy invasion. In 1700, Tokaj became the first European wine region to have its vineyards classified, its uniquely varied terroirs and climates rated “primae classis, secundae classis, tertius classis,” or “first growth, second growth, third growth,” by Prince Rakoczi II of Transylvania...
'This fulfils a lifelong ambition of mine. Forty years ago, when I first visited Tokaji, I could not have imagined making some of its finest wines myself. What has happened since the (1989) Revolution has been a dream coming - slowly - true'.
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