Wine region

Tokaj

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About Tokaj

Tokaj wine region or Tokaj-Hegyalja wine region is a historical wine region located in northeastern Hungary and southeastern Slovakia. It is also one of the seven larger wine regions of Hungary. Hegyalja means "foothills" in Hungarian, and this was the original name of the region.

From the Wikipedia article Tokaj wine region, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Tokaj is a wine region, Hungary. We track 139 of its wines in stock at 65 shops, from 27 wine houses, from € 6.40; mostly dessert.

At a glance
Country
Hungary
In our wines
Furmint, Hárslevelű, Muscat, Friulano, Malvasia
Classifications
Eszencia 5 · Tokaji Aszú 46
Styles
Dessert 121 · White 13 · Orange 3 · Sparkling 1
Prices
from € 6.40 · median € 37.10 / 75 cl

Vintages

per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote
VintageWinesFromMedian / 75 clCritics' scoreGrowing season
2026––––hotdryso far +2.1 °C · 1,621 GDD · 41 % rain
20251€ 20.28€ 20.2893.0 (1 wine)warm +0.8 °C · 1,420 GDD · 74 % rain
20245€ 12.25€ 20.00–hot +1.9 °C · 1,602 GDD · 96 % rain
202315€ 12.50€ 27.00–hot +1.0 °C · 1,468 GDD · 119 % rain
202210€ 9.12€ 27.22–hotdrywet harvest +1.1 °C · 1,500 GDD · 70 % rain
202117€ 6.40€ 27.90–cool −0.5 °C · 1,239 GDD · 90 % rain
20208€ 16.95€ 28.21–averagewet ±0.0 °C · 1,214 GDD · 136 % rain
20196€ 16.80€ 49.74–warm +0.9 °C · 1,398 GDD · 115 % rain
201812€ 15.95€ 69.6494.0 (1 wine)hot +2.0 °C · 1,631 GDD · 83 % rain
201711€ 21.27€ 64.71–average +0.4 °C · 1,337 GDD · 94 % rain
20163€ 33.34€ 46.00–warm +0.6 °C · 1,386 GDD · 101 % rain
20151€ 55.00€ 55.00–hot +1.0 °C · 1,480 GDD · 82 % rain
20144€ 55.90€ 105.41–warm +0.5 °C · 1,311 GDD · 113 % rain
20134€ 39.95€ 58.37–average +0.3 °C · 1,273 GDD · 72 % rain
2012––––hot +1.4 °C · 1,504 GDD · 78 % rain
2011––––averagedry harvest +0.3 °C · 1,295 GDD · 80 % rain
20101€ 20.74€ 20.74–coolwetwet harvest −0.9 °C · 1,140 GDD · 162 % rain
20091€ 776.94€ 776.94–warm +0.8 °C · 1,402 GDD · 82 % rain
2008––––average ±0.0 °C · 1,199 GDD · 106 % rain
20074€ 85.00€ 179.97–warmwet harvest +0.7 °C · 1,388 GDD · 88 % rain
20061€ 191.44€ 287.16–averagedry harvest ±0.0 °C · 1,199 GDD · 107 % rain
2005––––coolwet −0.5 °C · 1,129 GDD · 131 % rain
2004––––cool −0.7 °C · 1,065 GDD · 116 % rain
2003––––average +0.2 °C · 1,443 GDD · 84 % rain
2002––––average +0.3 °C · 1,354 GDD · 105 % rain
2001––––average −0.3 °C · 1,174 GDD · 98 % rain
2000––––average +0.4 °C · 1,294 GDD · 73 % rain
19991€ 465.00€ 930.00–averagedry harvest −0.3 °C · 1,182 GDD · 106 % rain
1998––––coolwetwet harvest −0.5 °C · 1,122 GDD · 130 % rain
1997––––cold −1.8 °C · 1,086 GDD · 97 % rain
1996––––coldwet harvest −1.2 °C · 1,022 GDD · 115 % rain
1995––––cool −0.6 °C · 1,135 GDD · 99 % rain
1994––––average +0.3 °C · 1,358 GDD · 91 % rain
1993––––cool −0.5 °C · 1,160 GDD · 74 % rain
1992––––average −0.2 °C · 1,273 GDD · 80 % rain
1991––––cold −1.3 °C · 1,061 GDD · 102 % rain
1990––––cool −0.9 °C · 1,074 GDD · 90 % rain
1989––––cooldry harvest −0.6 °C · 1,087 GDD · 111 % rain
1988––––cool −0.7 °C · 1,152 GDD · 87 % rain
1987––––cool −0.8 °C · 1,121 GDD · 81 % rain
1986––––averagedrydry harvest −0.2 °C · 1,195 GDD · 65 % rain
1985––––colddry harvest −1.5 °C · 983 GDD · 108 % rain
1984––––coldwet harvest −1.3 °C · 962 GDD · 108 % rain
1983––––average −0.2 °C · 1,210 GDD · 85 % rain
1982––––cool −0.5 °C · 1,209 GDD · 86 % rain

Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Tokaj's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the region. The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.

Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.