Erzsébet Pince

Erzsébet Pince is a family winery founded by one of the first female winemakers in Tokaj, Erzsébet (Elizabeth) Prácser. In 1989, to start their own family business, Erzsébet and her husband bought a cellar in the old wine merchants’ street (Bem utca) in the historic center of the town of Tokaj. Not just any cellar, though, but one of the region’s great historical cellars, that was dug in the 1600s, and had been rented by Russian emperors (among them Tzarina Elizabeth) in the 1700s for storing Aszú wines purchased for the court. Today, the winery produces around 12,000 boottles of wine annually, the Prácser family (father, mother, daughter, and son) running the estate. They take pride in the production of exceptional single-vineyard dry wines and Aszú, Tokaj’s classic natural botrytis wine. The wines are made in small lots, from low-yielding vineyards that use sustainable and organic viticultural practices.