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New leaflet "Wines from Moravia - wines from Bohemia"

The grapevine grows now on approximately 19 000 hectares of Czech soil. Cca 800 of these hectares lies in Bohemia, the rest of vineyards can we found in Moravia. The Czech Republic is divided into two viticultural areas, Bohemia and Moravia. The Bohemian are is further divided into 2 subareas („mělnická“ and „litoměřická“), the second one is divided into four sub-areas „mikulovská“, „slovácká“, „velkopavlovická“ and „znojemská“). In the Czech republic is is grown up to 600 000 hectoliters of vine and consumed app. 1.65 million hectoliters. The wine consumption has been steadily growing in the last eight years. Czechs and Moravians are drinking cca 16.5 liter of wine per person. 
 
The major part of homegrown vine comes from the Moravian area; 28 % origins in the sub-area „velkopavlovická“, 25 % in „slovácká“ and „mikulovská“ sub-areas. Nearly one fifth of the wine production is based in sub-area „znojemská“. The two Czech sub areas hold only 3 percent share of the total production. 
 
Approximately half of the Czech and Moravian wines come from the quality wine production, up to 40 % are table wines and 12 % are quality wine with special attributes. The structure of the wine cultures net is mostly made by small enterprises, husbanding an area from 0,1 hectare to 1 hectar. The majority of production is made by white varieties, the share of blue grapes production is 33 %. The most common varieties are whites: Veltlínské zelené /Grüner Veltliner/ (11 %), Ryzlink vlašský /Welschriesling/ (8,4 %), Ryzlink rýnský /Riesling/ (7,1 %) a Rulandské bílé /Pinot Blanc/ (4,7 %). Svatovavřinecké (Saint Laurent/ (9 %) and Frankovka /Lemberger/ (7 %) prevail in blue varieties. 
The Czech Republic is an European northern wine cultural area. Conditions for vine production are rather rough, but this is the feature that gives the Czech and Moravian wines attractive and interesting characteristics. The prominence of wines from the Czech Republic lies in expressive smell, fruity and flowery character, fresh acids. The unique, distinctive characteristics can be found above all among whites and in a recently revived category of rose wines, which draw attention especially abroad. The red wines of highest quality are those from vintages from years with sufficient number of sunny days. 
The National Wine Centre, introducing itself during the fair and holding the supervision of the Czech and Moravian presentation in Düsseldorf, was found five years ago. Its main task is, above all, organization of seminars and trainings for wine-growers and merchants, publishing of specialized publications and cooperation in marketing activities and promotion of Czech and Moravian viniculture. 
 
One of the activities of the National Wine Centre is the maintaince of the Wine salon of wines of the Czech Republic. Both institutions reside in the art of the reconstructed castle in the sout Moravian town Valtice. The renewal of the historic landmark was funded by donations from the Ministry of Culture and the European Union (through the PHARE fund). The vine-growers have been given more than a representative and attractive quarters, as the Valtice castle is a part of a tourism centre the zone Lednice–Valtice area which had been included onto the UNESCO list of monuments in 1996. 
 
Exhibitors´ profiles: 
 
Bohemia Sekt, a. s. 
The Bohemia Sekt Group is one of the top vine producers and sellers on the Czech market. The group annually sells app. 35 million bottles of vine. Controlling more than 70 % of the home trade, it is a leading producer of sparkling wine in the Czech Republic. 
 
VINIUM a. s. 
VINIUM is a recently founded, dynamic company, continuing a historical tradition of wine-growing and producing in southern Moravia. The roots of the company date back to year 1936, to a viticultural cooperative VINOPA founded in the village Velké Pavlovice. VINIUM is farming on 466 hectares, and it purchases grapevine from several business partners who cultivate grapevine on an area of more than 2000 hectares. 
 
PATRIA Kobylí, a. s. 
The company is one of the traditional vine-growers and producers of quality vines based in southern Moravia. Farming on 152 hectares, PATRIA Kobylí supplies the market with more than 1 million litres of vine per year. Its vine assortment offers 14 whites and 6 blue types of wine. The company focuses on vines designated for gastronomy and distribution to selected specialized wine-merchants. 
 
The Mělník Castle and vine cellars of Jiří Lobkowicz, s. r. o. 
The Mělník Castle and vineyards owned by Jiří Lobkowicz are located above the junction of the two biggest Czech rivers, Labe and Vltava. The historical city of Mělník bears the tradition of wine-growing for more than 1000 years. Although the noble family of Jiří Lobkowicz continues in this tradition, it uses the most modern, advanced technologies to produce its vines from the traditional types of wine.

Czech and Moravian Wines Will Be Presented Together on The ProWein Fair

ProWein is one of the biggest and most renowned fair trades in the world, both because of the area that covers and the number of exhibitors and visitors, who attend the trade each year. In 2006, there were more than 2,900 exhibitors from 46 countries, who showed their products at the area of 37,000m². This year, the visitors can expect a premier event entitled “Wine’s Best Friends”, which is characteristic by offering unique chocolates, fine cheeses, unusual sausages and other types of delicacies, which goes well with wine, to the visitors of the exhibition. 
 
Nowadays, grapes are cultivated on the area of 18,750 hectares in the Czech Republic. 
There are two main regions in the Czech Republic focused on growing grape vine: the wine region Moravia and Bohemia. The wine region in Bohemia is concentrated in two sub-regions, Mělník and Litoměřice. Moravian region takes up 96% of all national graperies and consists of four sub-regions: Znojmo, Mikulov, Velké Pavlovice and Slovácko. The whole annual production reaches about 600,000 hectoliters of wine and the consumption is constantly growing. These facts give evidence that Moravian and Czech Wines are gaining reputation. 
 
Wine Fund of the Czech Republic makes a big share in sponsoring the participation of individual wine companies at the trade. „The International Trade Fair ProWein represents a good occasion for getting new contacts for the export of the Czech products. The point is that the trade mark Wine of Moravia, Wine of Bohemia grows on reputation not only at home but also abroad, “said the director of the Wine Fund, Ing. Jaroslav Machovec. 
 
The main activity of the National Wine Centre, which has the auspices over the national stall at the exhibition, is wine marketing and the organization of the competition called the Wine Salon of the Czech Republic. The National Wine Centre is based in a reconstructed castle in a southern Moravian town Valtice, which creates a part of a castle complex Lednice-Valtice, highly-valued for its historical uniqueness in the whole world. 
 
The exhibitors: 
 
Bohemia Sekt 
 
Bohemia Sekt Company will introduce its best wines at ProWein in Düsseldorf for the fourth time. Head manager of Bohemia Sekt, Josef Vozdecký, says: “It is necessary to see the whole EU wine market as our home market. Trade globalization continues and it is necessary to follow such phenomenon. Our company can not be missing at ProWein, because we are the biggest wine producers in the Czech Republic. Our product portfolio of qualitative sparkling wines represents a widely known brand Bohemia Sekt and is complemented by “our Chateaus”: Chateau Radyně and Chateau Bzenec. The portfolio of silent wines will be represented by year-class wines from Habánské sklepy, Chateau Bzenec and Pavlov Winegrowing Company.” 
“Our business partners and new foreign customers have already confirmed to attend our exhibition. We have also prepared some tasting for fair visitors who are interested in wines and sparkling wines from Moravia.” 
Bohemia Sekt will present its products within the frame of the national exhibition. It is a strong and successful company. Bohemia Sekt continues to strengthen the brand name which already enjoys great reputation and respect not even in the Czech Republic, but also in whole Central Europe. 
 
Moravian Wineries Bzenec, s. r.o. 
 
Moravian Wineries Bzenec is one of the most important wine companies in the Czech Republic. They keep the graperies in all sub-regions in Moravia and the modern technologies used by the company represent the best way of producing the unique and qualitative Moravian wines and the wines with predicate. The company offers both wines that are well-accessible to the wide public and selective wines intended especially for the gastronomy segment. This wine group represents a wide portfolio of well-known marks of qualitative wines and wines with predicate including a small prestigious viniculture MIKROSVÍN MIKULOV. 
 
At the trade fair ProWein, the Moravian Wineries Bzenec will present and offer the Moravian wines, which are typical for the Central European wine region including traditional Moravian variety wines such as Welschriesling, Grüner Veltliner and Mülller Thurgau. Also the typical Moravian rose and red wines will be presented there. The competitive price which is accompanied with high quality makes these products attractive for businessmen. 
 
Soare Sekt a.s. 
 
The wine group Soare is the second biggest wine company in the Czech Republic which has a complete assortment of sparkling wines, silent wines, wine drinks, vermouths and non-alcoholic children sparkling wines. The company offers not only its own brands, but also an exclusive representation of other renowned world trade marks. There is the Soare Sekt Company in head with its subsidiaries Wine Valtice s.r.o and Viniculture Zaječí s.r.o with cellar homesteads and decantation capacities in the significant wine region of South Moravia and also Soare sekt Slovakia s.r.o. 
 
At the Trade Fair ProWein, the company will present an exclusive offer intended for export: elegant and original sparkling wines of the Soare sekt brand, Femme Fatale and Mucha sekt and also complete sets of wines with predicate and qualitative wines offered by brand Grand vines d´Alfons Mucha and Wine. The assortment of excellent branded wines originally from the Vinařství Zaječí will be presented, too. 
 
Spielberg CZ 
 
The Spielberg winery maintains the centuries-long tradition of wine growing in the Moravian sub-region Slovácko. The Company is focused on the production of top quality wines with predicate and strives to comply with the old winery truth saying that the technology is an important thing; though, wine is made already in the vineyard. A favorable micro-climate of the sunny slopes in Ždánice Forest, together with the sandy subsoil and increased limestone content, provides conditions for the birth of distinctive white and red wines with characteristic fruit-flower bouquet and mineral flavours. 
 
The company will present the top quality white wines like Welschriesling, Rheinriesling or Pinot Blanc at the Trade Fair ProWein. Red wines like Blauer Portugieser, Limberger, André or Zweigeltrebe will be also demonstrated there.{fotogalerie foto_aktuality_711}

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