Quantity. 
Proprietors. 
Grapes. 
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tague was fo well convinced of this, that a few 
years before his death he undertook a journey from 
England to Tokay, and continued there feveral 
months, in order to be fure of having the beft and 
mod: genuine wine. 
It is a vulgar error, that the Tokay wine is in fo 
fmall quantity, as never to be found genuine, unlefs 
when given in prefents by the court of Vienna. The 
extent of ground on which it grows is a fufficient 
proof to the contrary. It is a common defert wine 
in all the great families at Vienna, and in Hungary, 
and is very generally drank in Poland and Ruffia, 
being ufed at table in thofe countries, like Madeira 
in this. 
Another vulgar error is, that all the Tokay wine 
is the property of the Emprefs Queen. She is not 
even the mod confiderable proprietor, nor of the beft 
wine ; fo that every year (he lells off her own, and 
purchafes from the other proprietors, to fupply her 
own table, and the prefents fhe makes of it. The 
greateft proprietor is the Prince Trautzon, an old 
man, at whofe death, indeed, his eftate will efcheat 
to the crown ; but many others of the German and 
Hungarian nobility have large vineyards at Tokay ; 
mod: of the gentlemen in the neighbourhood have 
part of their eftates there ; the Jefuits college at 
Ungwar has a confiderable fhare of the beft wine ; 
and befides thefe, there are many of the peafants 
who have vineyards, which they hold of the Queen, 
or other lords, by paying a tythe of the annual pro- 
duce. 
There is never any red wine made at Tokay, 
2nd, as far as I recoiled!, the grapes are all white. 
They 
