Tiffán’s Winery
Tiffán’s Winery is a family business with a history of centuries in Villány wine region. Ede Tiffán is the ninth generation of the family that works with viticulture and winemaking. He graduated as a horticulturist at the College of Horticulture and Viticulture in 1965. He started working and in the meantime he began his business on his own grape plantation and winery in 1967. In 1991 Ede Tiffán was elected the Winemaker of the Year for the first time.
In 1999 the President of the Republic of Hungary gave him the Order of Merit of the Republic, the Officer’s Cross. The eleventh generation is represented by Zsolt Tiffán, Jr. He is studying viticulture and winery at Geisenheim University.
The 20-hectare grape plantation is located in the Villány Wine Region, in the most respected vineyards of Jammertal, Sterntal, Ördögárok, Remete, Kopár and Várerdő. The fields are mostly south-facing, the majority 130-200 metres above sea level. They grow the types of Portugieser (Oportó), Kadarka, Kékfrankos, Pinot Noir, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. On our best plantations we limit the quantity of plants first by pruning and then by green harvesting. During the harvest and the processing we select the bunches of grapes twice in order to work only with the healthy grapes. The construction of the factory and the winery started in 1993.
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Read Ede Tiffán’s opinion about Cabernet franc.
Tiffán’s: Cabernet franc, 2011
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[…] Tiffán’s Winery‘s Cabernet Franc gives the wine softness and ripe tannins. “Villány chose Cabernet Franc as its flagship variety as, while the world is full of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, we feel that Cabernet Francis our own,” says Ede Tiffán. This 2011 Cabernet Franc proves for us the raison d’etre of the variety. Cocoa bean character, this is an exceedingly elegant lot. Three weeks fermentation in stainless steel. The grapes came from 53-year-old vines in Sterntal vineyard. […]
[…] from Hungary and you can meet with the wineries representatives. You can meet three wineries there. Tiffán’s Winery from the Villány wine region, Pajzos Tokaj from Tokaj wine region and Villa Sandahl from Badacsony […]
[…] of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, we feel that Cabernet Franc is our own,” says Ede Tiffán, from Tiffán’s Winery. “Cabernet Franc has found its natural home in Villány,” wrote Michael Broadbend in […]