Tokaj’s silver lining
by Wojciech Bonkowski
The Tokaj wine region organised its second wine auction recently. Modelled on the Hospices de Beaune, it featured unique lots of dry and sweet wines offered by the 136-litre barrel,...
Wojciech Bońkowski has written about wine in Polish and English since 1999. He authored Poland’s first wine book, The Wines of Europe (3 editions, 2003–8) and in 2012, launched leading wine website Winicjatywa.
He blogs in English at www.polishwineguide.com where he also writes about tea, his other passion.
He specialises in the wines of Italy, Portugal, Central and Eastern Europe. And he actually has another life in which he researches 19th-century music. Wojciech covers northern Italy (excluding Tuscany) for timatkin.com