The history of Tűzkő Estate dates back to the beginning of the 1990s when Hungary went through some groundbreaking political and economic changes. The system change also resulted in the alteration of the wine system, therefore quality-conscious private wineries were founded at the place of the enormous, quality-focused state vineyards. This transformation created real market conditions and opened up the county for foreign investors as well. Th...
The Szekszárd area is an ancient wine region where wine-making can be traced back to Roman times. The first Hungarian kings introduced strict regulations to protect the noble wines produced here. The hills were covered with grapevines and wine was produced in the region even under the occupation of the Turks, who seem to have had a taste for the Szekszárd Kadarka. The industrious and wine-loving Swabians, who settled in the region in the eight...
The new wine cellar of Tűzkő Estate, equipped with top technology for soft pressing and providing the controlled temperatures necessary for fermentation and bottling, was built in 1991. Deep inside one of the loess hills, the winery also has a brick-lined underground cellar built in the early 1700s. This excellent cellar, with a yearly temperature fluctuation of 1 degree C, functions today just as well as 300 years ago when the Apponyi family ...
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