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In an email today, Sam's advertises a 2000 5 Putts Tokaji from a
producer named Henye for $27/500 mL. Anyone ever heard of this producer or can offer any comments about him/her? (poke, poke... Ian?) Mark Lipton |
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> In an email today, Sam's advertises a 2000 5 Putts Tokaji from a producer > named Henye for $27/500 mL. Anyone ever heard of this producer or can > offer any comments about him/her? > (poke, poke... Ian?) Mark, I am very worried about M. Hoare - I swear he has not got over the shock of His Lordship eating him out of house and home!!!!! Amazingly, Chateau Henye Tokaji 5 Putts is being offered in Auckland at roughly the equivalent price (via a very small importer to whose mailing list I subscribe) with the following explanation. "Chateau Henye which is owned by the French winemaking d'Aulan family (who own Chteau Sansonnet in Ste-Emilion), was launched in 1997 in partnership with the late Bordeaux vintner Jean-Michel Arcaute. [Chteau Clinet; Chteau Jonqueyres; Chteau La Croix du Casse.] This partnership also set up AltaVista, a relatively big operation in Argentina Chteau Henye is located in the premium producing areas of Tokay, between the vineyards described as Grand Crus [ABs Note - is there such a classication in Tokaji?] Following the privatisation of the warehouses that arose after the fall of the communist regime in Hungary, the d'Aulan family (along with others) set up operations to recover the prestige of the mythical wines of Tokay, combining tradition with the most modern enological techniques." [Note - nothing about the actual wine!!!!] -- hth -- st.helier |
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Salut/Hi Mark Lipton,
le/on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:21:31 -0500, tu disais/you said:- >In an email today, Sam's advertises a 2000 5 Putts Tokaji from a >producer named Henye for $27/500 mL. Anyone ever heard of this producer >or can offer any comments about him/her? (poke, poke... Ian?) I don't know of a producer called "Henye" though there is a 1st growth vineyard of that name, Királyudvár has holdings there. BTW, I spent an interesting ˝ hour wandering round their website yesterday. (http://www.kiralyudvar.com) The price is pretty low, though. Have a look at Binney's web site - I think they may be able to give you a price for comparison that would be valid in IL. http://www.binnys.com -- All the Best Ian Hoare http://www.souvigne.com mailbox full to avoid spam. try me at website |
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Ian Hoare wrote:
> I don't know of a producer called "Henye" though there is a 1st growth > vineyard of that name, Királyudvár has holdings there. BTW, I spent an > interesting ˝ hour wandering round their website yesterday. Thanks for the information, Ian and Andrew. From St. H.'s post, you can see that the property is "Ch. Henye" and is owned by some Bordelais. Anyone familiar with the reputation of Ch. Sansonnet in St.-Emilion? I can at least use that as some indicator of what to expect here... Mark Lipton p.s. Ian, thanks for the link to Binny's -- I wasn't familiar to them. |
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![]() Mark Lipton wrote: > In an email today, Sam's advertises a 2000 5 Putts Tokaji from a > producer named Henye for $27/500 mL. Anyone ever heard of this producer > or can offer any comments about him/her? (poke, poke... Ian?) I have not seen any tasting notes for Henye. It was not mentioned in Decanter's supplement on Hungary published this year either. And they included tasting notes for a few wines not available in the UK. In general, the 2000 vintage was given a 5-star out of 5 rating- "immensely rich, supple wines, but without the freshness of the 1990s". Most of Decanter's recommended aszu wines were 6 Puttonyos - a few were 5. Most were the 1999 and 2000 vintages. The producers were Disznoko, Janos Arvay, Kiralyudvar, Royal Tokaji, Szepsy, Crown Estates Szarvas, Dobogo, Oremus, and Chateau Pajzos. Most were priced at 24 - 40 Pounds in the UK. The 6P Szepsy 2000 was 89 Pounds for 40cl(I am just quoting the size Decanter gave). Decanter picked out Istvan Szepsy, a native Hungarian, as being perhaps the best current producer of Tokaji, and this is reflected in the price of his wines. His family has been making wine since the 16th century. |
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![]() > Anyone familiar with the reputation of Ch. Sansonnet in St.-Emilion? I > can at least use that as some indicator of what to expect here... > > Mark Lipton It was owned for several generations by the Robin family until 1999 when it succumbed to part of the new wave of outsiders buying into the Jurisdiction and was bought by the Marquis d'Aulan - of Pieper-Heidsieck. I have not drunk anything made under the new ownership but I suspect that simply because good Saint Emilion was, at least until 1999, made here, and should still be being made, it will probabaly provide little help on this question. Large group drinks manufacturers will, after all have different people making and al the other conditiosn will be very different. People will perhaps have to judge by the wider reputation of the group, not simply this one chateau which has recently changed hands so recently. Timothy Hartley |
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