“Golden Ducat” Our wine cellar
The GOLDEN DUCAT tavern and restaurant can be found at the settlement Tállya in the geometrical centre point of Europe located in Tokaj-Hegyalja at a distance of 12 kilometer from Tokaj.
In our winery designed with high standards are staying various reception rooms with a capacity of 150 persons to ther service of the customers, where the guests can taste our own excellent Tokaj wines between the walls of a 400 years old cellar system.
All the rooms of our cellar system offering full comfort and climatized conditions /22 C/.
The tavern and restaurant welcomes to the guests with buffet-system meal and drink consumption on unlimited basis with previous calling and reservation.
We also undertake the organisation of Company Meetings
Tállya in the Tokaj wine region
Tállya settlement is situated in Borsod-Abauj-Zemplén county which can be found in the eastern part of the Tokaj-hegyalja mountain region.
Tállya is one of the most famous and important settlements of the Tokaj wine region, the origin of its name can be deducted from many versions.
According to an other version at the time of conquest of Hungary the primary chief Árpád glanced at this region and pointed out "Maád szerencsét az Isten e Tállyra! Roughly translated: the God makes us lucky at this region. This is the origin of the place-names of these settlements, sounds rhyming in Hungarian.
For a couple of centuries Tállya was a market-town and in the 17th century when the wine business was booming, resulting the construction of huge cellar systems under the surface of earth. The cellar of the famous Rákoczi family is also dates back to this times, connecting the wine estate of the Rákóczi family with the Rákóczi fortress in Sárospatak. The Wine Region of Tokaj is situated in the triangle of Abaujszántó, Tokaj and Sátoraljaújhely. The most frequantly known settlements of this region are: Tokaj, Sátoraljaújhely, Szerencs, Tarcal, Mád, Tállya, Abaujszántó, Bodrogkeresztúr, Olaszliszka, Erdõbénye and Tolcsva.
The settlement Tállya is at the same time geometrical centre of Europe, which is certified by the document issued by the Research Institute of Geology in the year 1991.
due to its historical heritage Tállya poses excellent relaxation conditions for the visitors having interests in this scenery. A number of dignities of the Hungarian history is connected to Tállya: e.g. Zsuzsanna Lórántffy, Ferenc Rákóczi, János Lavotta and good many historical architectural buildings and monuments are preserving their memories. /castle of Maylott family, mansion of Rákóczi, castle of Balogh family, monument of the famous misic composer János Lavotta.
Among the historical churches of Tállya it is worth to mention the Evangelical church /Lajos Kossuth was baptised in this church/ the catholic and reformist church.
Over these mentioned historcial places plenty of surrounding settlements are offering useful and high-key passtime for the visitors.
The wonderful Tisza and Bodrog rivers are providing excellent water tour possibilities, as well as cycling and jogging trails can be found in the Tállya-Tokaj-Szerencs triangle. Morever fascinating sceneries also can be found in the ambient region: at Vizsoly, Boldogkõváralja,Regéc, Fûzér, Aranyosi-völgy, Tolcsva, Sárospatak, Sátoraljaújhely and their regions.
About the region
Tállya settlement is situated at the Eastern part of the Borsod-Abauj-Zemplén County, located at the South-Western foot of the Zemplén hill at Tokaj-hegyalja.
Tokaj-hegyalja is the mostly known region of Hungary,bacame known world-wide for its famous viticulture and winiculture. The traditionally grown sorts of grapes are: furmint, lindenleaf and yellow muscutell. These mentioned vine sorts are used for making the world famous aszú wines /botrytis wines/ which are well known in all over the world.
In 1737, the Tokaj winegrowing area was the first to be delimited by royal decree. In this region, the vinification methods have been carefully regulated for almost three centuries.
The botrytis wines of this region has been known almost in the wholw world in the years 1700, as Ferenc Rákóczi the gouvernor of Hungary sent from this wine to the king of France Lewis the XIV, who characterized this wine with the following statement:
"VINUM REGUM, REX VINORUM" - "WINE OF KINGS AND KING OF WINES"
The success of Aszú has been still reinforced by a belief that spread rapidly in the medical circles from the XVIIth century onwards, according to which in reasonable quantities, Aszú wines would be good for health. Actually, since Aszú contains penicillin, it has been sold in drugstores for a long time, under the name: "VINUM TOKAJENSE PASSUM".
Since the knowledge of winegrowing dates back to many generations, and in order to preserve these old traditions, in 2002 UNESCO decided to declare the Tokaj wine region a world heritage site.
The region has unique geological and geographical assets: sunny, south-facing slopes, volcanic subsoil rich in minerals, a microclimate determined by the proximity of the Bodrog and Tisza rivers, as well as long autumns. The proliferation of the noble rot, «Botrytis cinerea», leads to the desiccation of the grapes (development of Aszú).
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