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2009. February 2. Monday
Winery of the year in Denmark 2008
Hungarian Vylyan Winery with the owner Mónika Debreczeni has been nominated ”Winery of the year 2008” by the Danish wine magazine Vinbladet.
Publisher and Editor in chief Peter Winding talks in his nomination speech (see attached PDF page 2-3) about the nice surprise of suddenly discovering new territory of excellent quality and calls it a victory of democracy after years of oppression and of the Vylyan winery he says:
”As a woman and a widow Mónika Debreczeni has inexorably focused on the detail and this combined with excellent terroir explains the quality of the Vylyan wines from such unknown slopes as Dobogó, Mandolás, Pilangó, Városhegy and Gombás - names that undoubtedly in the future will be pronounced with the same ease as the most well known European vineyards of today.”
Here follows the list of renowned winemakers and wineries nominated by Vinbladet since 1996:
1996 - Aubert de Villaine, Domaine Romanée-Conti, France
1997 - Robert Mondavi, Robert Mondavi Winery, California
1998 - Peter Sisseck, Domaine de Pingus, Spain
1999 - Gonzague Lurton, Château Durfort-Vivens, France 2000 - Georges Duboeuf, Georges Duboeuf, France
2001 - Jan ”Boland” Coetze, Vriesenhof, South Africa
2002 - Allan Vauthier, Château Ausone, France
2003 - Andrea Franchetti, Tenuta di Trinoro, Italy
2004 - Camillo P. Magoni, L.A. Cetto, Mexico
2005 - Peter Vinding-Diers, Sicily, Italy
2006 - Jacques Lurton,The Islander, Australia/France
2007 - Adolfo Hurtado, Cono Sur, Chile
2008 - Mónika Debreczeni, Vylyan, Hungary
Click here to take a look at Vinbladet magazine
