Patricius

Proprietor: Dezső and Katinka Kékessy
Website: Patricius Winery
Country Location: Hungary
 

Rebuilding, acre by acre, stone by stone, a large domain in Tokaj is more than a passion but an act of faith and an oath on the future. This is the wager my father and I made, buying the best plots, replanting wherever necessary, sometimes inversing the direction of old rows when they were not properly oriented, selecting and eliminating whatever was not absolutely perfect.
  
  We have continued this oath by establishing a state of the art winery, a place for creating wine but also a site for visiting and tasting. An act of faith, an oath; you'll be the one to choose. This is Patricius: our wine and today yours.
  
  Katinka Kékessy


  
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  map of Patricius vineyards in Tokaj

  The Patricius Winery was established by the Kékessy family’s oenological vocation for  the future, which derives  from the past. The owners are Dezsõ Kékessy and his daughter Katinka Kékessy. The family’s ancestors both in maternal and paternal ascending line were well-known vineyard owners in the regions of the hills of Mátra and Tokaj from the 18th century. The maternal ancestors – the Okolicsányi family- had vineyards in Tokaj, Szegi and Szõlõske. Besides they held important offices as public servants (deputy – lieutenant, Member of Parliament).
  
  The winery is a rebuilt wine-press house in the vineyard Várhegy. The building was owned by the Jesuits and various aristocratic families as Wolkenstein and Falkenstein, and the counts Széchenyi - Falkenstein, Rákóczi and Hohenlohe.  It was used as a simple press - house, however, it already appears in the Tokaj – Hegyalja Album in 1867. The characteristics of this old building have been preserved while it is integrated in a modern winery.
 

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