The castle and everything under it belonged to the counts of Svätý Jur and Pezinok, one of the great families of the north-west, who held both wine towns and the hills between them. The town at the foot of their castle took its name from its church: St George — Svätý Jur — early Gothic, and still standing at the top of the main street. The lords wanted rent, and what this slope could pay it in was wine, so the vines climbed the hill and the town settled into the shape it still has: one street, arched gateways into deep yards, a press-house at the back of each. Winegrowing here has run without a break for more than seven hundred years.Hrad aj všetko pod ním patrilo grófom zo Svätého Jura a Pezinka, jednému z veľkých rodov severozápadu, ktorý držal obe vinohradnícke mestá aj kopce medzi nimi. Mestečko pod ich hradom dostalo meno po svojom kostole — po svätom Jurovi; včasnogotický kostol dodnes stojí na hornom konci hlavnej ulice. Zemepáni chceli dávky a tento svah ich vedel platiť vínom, takže vinice vystúpili do kopca a mesto nadobudlo podobu, akú má dodnes: jedna ulica, klenuté prejazdy do hlbokých dvorov a vzadu v každom lisovňa. Vinohradníctvo tu beží bez prerušenia vyše sedemsto rokov.
