Vineyards:
Oremus Sátoraljaújhely, loose structured, rhyolite soil
Mandolás Tolcsva, compact clay on rhyolite sub-soil
Szentvér Tolcsva, rhyolite, clay
Budaházi Olaszliszka, rhyolite with tiny obsidian fragments
Kútpatka Tolcsva, rhyolite-based clay soil
Henye Bodrogkeresztúr, loess, clay, loam
Petrács Tolcsva, andesite base soil with red clay and piroxine and jáspis
Gyapáros Tolcsva, extremely hard clay, fluid rhyolite with big obsidian rocks
Estate director, winemaker: András Bacsó (59)
Owner: Vega Sicilia Spain
Foundation of the cellar: 1993
Area: 91 ha yielding grape
Total bottling: 150,000 bottles
Winemaking and wine style: bunch selection, quick pressing and perfect must settling followed by what the winemaker considers the most important: the “masterful” fermentation through 10 to 15 days with cultured yeast at 18-19 degrees. The wine is kept on its fine lees and stirred every two weeks, ageing takes place in barrels ranging from 68-liter (half an average gönci barrel) to 340-liter mixed new oak barrels filled to the maximum, in conditions that exclude any oxygen. Complex, extremely round, rich estate wines.
The meaning of name Oremus: The meaning of the word is let’s pray, let’s plead. It’s the word the priests use to call the congregation to prayer at the time of service. One of the estate’s main vineyards was named after it, and later the winery as well where once the Zemplén monks cultivating the grapes were called for prayer at the break of work. Another interesting fact is that until the millennium the same word was used for the local Zéta grape variety, thus not only the estate but also a grape was called the same way as the vineyard.
