For nearly 30 years our family has been growing grapes and making wine. Our vineyards today encompass 3 hectars and we produce 15,000 to 20,000 bottles of fine tokaji wine annually, 1,500-4,000 bottles out of each variety. They appear on market with serial numbered labels. Our cellar can be found in the city of Tokaj, which gives its name to the whole region, in a five minute walk from the main square at No.2 Bem street. The cellar is run by the family. The common name of the street formerly was the "alley of wine merchants". According to the chronicles, the building itself was built in the 16th century as a hunting lodge by János Szapolyai, the king of Hungary and the voivode of Transylvania . The entry is from Dózsa György street.

We have chosen a typical bird, the bee-eater as the symbol of Hímesudvar which is the most colourful bird of passage in Hungary and what is more, a typical inhabitant of the wine growing region. Their nests can be found in 1-2 meter long holes made into loess walls. In summertime they are the most frequent visitors of the vineyards and their chittering voice can be heard from above the stratum where swallows fly.





The original name of Tokaj at the age of the Hungarian conquest (896 AD) used to be Hímesudvar. Anonymus, the otherwise unknown author of The Gesta Hungarorum (Latin for The Deeds of the Hungarians), mentioned the name first in his famous chronicle. "...Turzol, by the grace of Chieftain Árpád, on the very place at the foot of the hill where the River Bodrog flows into the River Tisza took a land and ordered to build a motte which had the name of Hymesudoar." The definition of the word motte is as follows: built by two paralel lines of piles driven into the soil and the spaces between these piles or rods were waved with twigs and rods and the space between the waved fences was filled with soil. At that time the Hungarian word for waving was "hímelés" which element can be found in the name of the settlement as well.