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Accomodation
Tokaj Kúria
At our winery, we offer comfortable accommodation called Tokaj Kúria. It is located in the small village of Veľká Tŕňa, near the historic complex of Tokaj cellars. The accommodation consists of three apartments: Georgius, Jochanan, and Andreas.
Georgius is an apartment located in the basement at the rear of the building. It has two rooms and one bathroom. The first room contains a wardrobe, a sofa that can be unfolded and turned into a bed. The second room has two separate beds, and the bathroom is equipped with a toilet, sink, and bathtub.
The attic has been transformed into the Jochanan apartment. It features two rooms, a bathroom, and a balcony. The first room has a sofa that can be unfolded into a bed, a small kitchen with a refrigerator, and a dining set. There is also another small bed and a television. The second room contains a double bed, another small bed, and a wardrobe. The bathroom includes a toilet, sink, and shower.
Finally, the Andreas apartment is located in the basement at the front of the building. It has two rooms and a bathroom. The first room has an old double bed, a television, a writing desk, a small sofa, and a rocking chair. The second room has one bed that can be unfolded into a double. The bathroom contains a toilet, sink, and shower.
Between the two apartments, there is a shared kitchen with a dining set, refrigerator, oven, washing machine, dishwasher, and sink. The entire accommodation combines modern and bourgeois styles with elements from the early 20th century. Each apartment includes vintage elements – paintings on the walls depicting real people, a functional gramophone, lamps, wardrobes, bookshelves, and more.
The exterior features a large garden with fruit trees, a campsite, a terrace, and a Hobbit house. The Hobbit house is built from white stone called tuff. Tuff is the primary stone in the Tokaj region. It imparts the typical aromas and body to our wines. All exterior walls, as well as the building itself, are made from this tuff. The exterior is designed with rocks, combined with a variety of green plants and trees.
During your stay at our accommodation, we offer bicycle rides, boat trips to Hungarian Tokaj, wine tastings, and guided tours of Slovak Tokaj.
Some History
Tokaj Kúria was built sometimes around the year 1900, as a small family mansion of a noble Hungarian family.
In this mansion was born a woman called Tokaji Nagy Ida. Her family was called Tokaji as our wine region. One of her ancestors – Ferenc Tokaji – was a chieftain of Kuruc rebellion against Habsburgs in 1697 in Hegyalja. In 1st of July he conquered a Tokaj castle with 500 soldiers, but his rebellion was not supported nor with the biggest rebel against Habsburgs – Ferenc Rákóczi. In the beginning of August the Habsburgs defeated him, caught him and killed him in Vienna.
Tokaji Nagy Ida was married to a man from another noble family – Géza Nátafalussy. The last person of this family, who lived in this house was their son – Elemér Nátafalussy – he died in 2014. The family Natafalussy was a noble count family of Zemplín county since the 13th century. We know about few of Elemér's ancestors. In 1219 Adam Nátafalussy owned a small village called Natafalu (by this village was called the whole family). His son Gregor became a king Gregor IV. He owned several properties and a castle Tubul. The king Béla gave him another property and also a Zemplín county. In 1473 the family of Nátafalussy hosted a king Matyás and in 1526 in a battle near Mohács, Benedek Nátafalussy was lieutenant of Zemplín county.
In 2018 we bought the building and started with reconstructions. During renovations we found a lot of photos, books and functional furniture which you can find in every single apartment.
Wine Cellar
Portal No. 17
The area of historic Tokaj cellars is located in the village of Veľká Tŕňa. Currently, there are 33 portals, each housing several cellars. Our winery owns two cellars in portal number 17. One serves as an archive, and the other is dedicated to wine tastings for our customers.
These cellars were likely excavated as early as the 13th century when the Tatars invaded this region. They killed many people and destroyed numerous vineyards, halting wine production and vineyard maintenance.
There are no written records of when the excavation of the cellars began, but we know that during the Turkish raids, the cellars already existed, and people used them as shelters. It is presumed that cellar excavation started after the Tatar invasions.
Later, it was discovered that the cellars had a beneficial effect on wine aging, particularly due to the fungus Cladosporium cellare, which thrives in the presence of wine. This fungus lives off the wine vapor in the cellars.
The cellars are carved into volcanic rock called tuff, which is a sedimented volcanic ash from prehistoric times.
Cellar excavation continued until the 1960s, after which no new portals were dug. Our cellar in portal number 17 is likely one of the oldest cellars in the Tokaj area in Veľká Tŕňa. We assume this because the portal is very close to the village, and it is believed that people began digging cellars near the settlement. Another indication is that the Cladosporium cellare fungus in our cellar has darkened with age, appearing almost black. Additionally, there are pickaxe marks visible in the cellar, indicating that no advanced techniques were used during its excavation.
If you would like to experience a wine tasting in a historic Tokaj cellar, you can choose from one of the following options:
Please click the link below to reserve your wine tasting.
Other Products
In our winery we also have something else, not just a wine. We are also beekeepers. We use our bees to pollinate our vineyards and in return we sow herbs for bees to have pollen for them for the whole year. We sow different types of herbs with different dates of flowering. In our vineyard we also use herbs of the Fabaceae family which can bind atmospheric nitrogen using bacteria of the Rhizobium tribe.
We also grow a lavender and add it in our accommodation to have a good smell during your stay.
In our accommodation we are also giving you our honey to make your tea sweeter. We plan to make candles of beeswax and replace them with candles in our wine-tasting cellar, where we only use candles during wine tasting.
During your stay in our accommodation we offer you our own eggs, vegetables and fruits (based on season).
Also a chicken and lamb meat is from our domesticated animals.
