Zombory Pince
A brief history
We are a small family owned company. Our main goal is to make great gold award wining wines, in limited quantities.
Our story dates back to the XVIII century when the Zombory family ancestors owned vineyards in the Mecsek hills, in southern Hungary. In 1741 they were granted lands and nobility by the Austrian Empress Maria Theresia, for their daring role in expelling the Turks from the medieval towns of Szigetvár and Pécs.
After a long and thrilling history of wars, dynasties and changing fortunes, the parents of the present owners of the Zombory winery, fled to Argentina in the mid of the XX.th century, in their search for freedom when the communist terror invaded Hungary. Tamás returned to the motherland in 1996, and together with his brother István, who remained in Buenos Aires, where he is also involved in world class winemaking, they started their venture in the historic site of Tokaj in 2003, founding Zombory Pince, one of the most promising and exciting boutique wineries of Hungary.
The Zombory Pince vineyards are located on the sunny volcanic Tokaj-Hegyalja hillsides, along the Bodrog river, where the autumns are dry and long. The misty mountains, the dewy mornings and the luminous afternoons, generate the ideal conditions for botrytis cinerea to slowly cover the mature, sugar-filled grapes, causing dehydration and shrivel on the clusters, and concentrating the sugar in the berries. The action of this fungus or “noble rot” gives the Aszú its extraordinary bouquet which distinguishes it from the ‘late harvest’ or ‘icewine’, which are not “botrytized wines.
Our story dates back to the XVIII century when the Zombory family ancestors owned vineyards in the Mecsek hills, in southern Hungary. In 1741 they were granted lands and nobility by the Austrian Empress Maria Theresia, for their daring role in expelling the Turks from the medieval towns of Szigetvár and Pécs.
After a long and thrilling history of wars, dynasties and changing fortunes, the parents of the present owners of the Zombory winery, fled to Argentina in the mid of the XX.th century, in their search for freedom when the communist terror invaded Hungary. Tamás returned to the motherland in 1996, and together with his brother István, who remained in Buenos Aires, where he is also involved in world class winemaking, they started their venture in the historic site of Tokaj in 2003, founding Zombory Pince, one of the most promising and exciting boutique wineries of Hungary.
The Zombory Pince vineyards are located on the sunny volcanic Tokaj-Hegyalja hillsides, along the Bodrog river, where the autumns are dry and long. The misty mountains, the dewy mornings and the luminous afternoons, generate the ideal conditions for botrytis cinerea to slowly cover the mature, sugar-filled grapes, causing dehydration and shrivel on the clusters, and concentrating the sugar in the berries. The action of this fungus or “noble rot” gives the Aszú its extraordinary bouquet which distinguishes it from the ‘late harvest’ or ‘icewine’, which are not “botrytized wines.
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István Dorogi
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