Hungary

Furmint

Hárslevelű

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.

Zombory Pince

Born in 1975 in Szerencs, entry gate to the Tokaj wine region, beside running his own winery, Istvan is responsible for the grape and wine production of Pendits vineyards, Orvina Ltd and Zombory Pince.

Together with the renowned winemaker Árvay János, they are the two artists behind Zombory Pince's latest Decanter and International Wine Challenge gold medal aszú wines.

In addition to his degree in enology and a Demeter certification, István is a leading expert in organic vine farming. In his own words:

“I have worked with organic grapes to a large extent, which have occasionally been used to produce organic certified wine or natural wine.

On my own estate (10 ha), the entire plantation is certified organic.

The wines are made from gently processed organic grapes. No enzymes or yeast are used in the processing. Our wines are made by spontaneous fermentation, in most cases in oak barrels.

Our wines are bottled soon, without filtration or clarification, and with low sulphur levels. In the future, this will move away from conventionally made wines.

My aim is to make wines with as little intervention as possible, and through them to present the landscape in as much detail as possible through dry wines. I am thinking here mainly of vineyard selected wines.

In terms of sweet wines, I work to provide evidence of the world quality of Tokaji Aszú

István Dorogi

Sweet

White

Our gold medal winner at Interntational Wine Challenge. Beautifully balanced with real harmony and style Aszú from 6 puttony.

Tokaji Aszú 6 puttony

Elegant dry white wine, made from selected furmint grapes from the volcanic soils in Tokaj. Harvested in middle October, after a meticulous manual selection, the grapes were placed into stainless steel tanks. After the fermentation occured, one third was placed into Hungarian oak barrels, while the rest of the wine remained in tanks for a 3 months ageing.   

Tokaji Furmint

Elegant sweet white wine, made from carefully selected botrytized and non-botrytized 
hárslevelű berries from the vulcanic soils of our Tokaj based hills.

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Zombory Pince

3 Wines from 2 Grape Varieties

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