The Herzog family’s winemaking story begins in the early 19th century in the town of Vrbové ( Verbó ) in the Trnava Region of Slovakia, where Rabbi Menachem Herzog (c. 1750-1822) established the family’s distillery, winery and brewery, which would sustain the family for the next century and beyond.>Menachem Herzog, known to his non-Jewish customers as Emanuel, produced wines (Rieslings and othe...