Winecellar of the Year Award 2014.
Last Thursday took place award ceremony at Borota. Holding this year’s Winecellar of the Year Award was the winecellar at Hajós-Baja where the winemaker is Csaba Koch. The award was handed over jointly by the representatives of the National Council of Wine Communities, the Hungarian Wine Academy and the Association of Hungarian Grape and Wine Producers. The awards were based upon the nominations and the votes given by the professional circles. The second-place of this year’s winery award was given to the “Frittmann” winecellar , and the third best winecellar title was award by receiving a diploma to the “Béres” Winery.
Background and a little history of the winery in a few words about the winemaker of the year 2014. : elder…elder…elder József Koch arrived to Hajós in 1742 and settled down at Császártöltés in 1744. He was one of the 13 founding families at the settlement. He was the very first merchant in the settlement and started the viticulture here that has been passed down for 13 generations. Thanks to the family heritage and the hard work of his great…great…great … grandfathers in the vintage, it was more than natural for József Koch born in 1969 to continue the family’s tradition, which this year brought him and his team the award to be recognised as the Winecellar of the Year 2014.
The Winecellar of the Year awards are given each year since 2002. Those wineries reach the recognition to the title of “The Year’s Winecellar” which are at home and abroad representing the Hungarian wines, furthermore did the most in the given year in widespreading the wine culture and the civilized popularization of wine consumption.
Previous years prize winner winecellaries:
2013 “Icon” Winecellar – Balatonboglár
2012 “Mészáros” Winecellar – Szekszárd
2011 “Thummerer” Winecellar – Eger
2010 Pannonhalma Abbey Winecellar – Pannonhalma-Sokoróalja
2009 “Szöllősi” Winecellar – Ászár-Neszmélyi
2008 Vylyan Ltd. – Villány
2007 “Bock” Winecellar – Villány
2006 “Garamvári” Winecellar – Etyek-Buda and South Balaton Wine Region
2005 “Disznókő” Winecellar – Tokaj
2004 “Neszmély” Hilltop Wine Co. – Ászár-Neszmélyi
2003 “Oremus” Winecellar – Tokaj
Update by Aggie Reiter
