 The wines of Somló have a long and celebrated history; indeed, the region’s fame at some point is said to have rivaled that of Tokaj.Its wine figures as medicine in old Hungarian pharmacopeias ("Vinum Somlaianum omni tempore sanum").In the eighteenth-nineteenth century, Habsburg emperors/kings of Austria and Hungary, especially Maria Theresia 
and Joseph II are claimed to have favored Somló wines.