Wines from the Czech Republic for the first time together at the London International Wine Fair

The National stand of wines from CR will be organised by the National Wine Centre with the support of the Wine Fund of the Czech Republic. Besides these organisations four wineries from CR will participate at the fair – BOHEMIA SEKT, a.s., Moravské vinařské závody with their subsidiary company Mikrosvín Mikulov, Templářské sklepy – wine cooperative and the Skoupil Winery. Despite the fact that some exhibitors individually took part in the LIWF in the past, this year for the first time we will have a real National stall of wines from CR, comparable with the national stalls of other advanced wine-growing countries.
Last year more than 1 300 exhibitors took part in the LIWF and almost 15 thousand viticulture experts visited it. This year the fair will be held in the new exhibition centre ExCeL in the Docklands in London.

The National Wine Centre with the Winegrowers’ Fund with this presentation follow the successful promotion of Moravian and Bohemian wines at the fairs abroad that were recently hold in Krakow (Poland), Bratislava (Slovakia) and that are planned in Düsseldorf (Germany) and in London.
Further these organisations provide a common presentation of wines from CR at the international wine competitions – in 2008 they sent 772 wine samples to 14 most prestigious world competitions, where they won 380 medals and awards.
“Wine has had its tradition in Moravia already since the Romans in the 3rd century. Together with Bohemian wines they were famous in Europe already from Middle Ages. During the last ten years the wines from Moravia and Bohemia went through a big qualitative development and today they rightfully belong among the best in Europe. Moravian and Bohemian wines are characterised by their interesting spectrum of aroma, rich extractive agents and a harmonic merge of a full taste with fresh acids of white wines. Lately, red Moravian and Bohemian wines get ahead, they are full-bodied and distinct thanks to modern processing technology, and still smooth and velvety with an outstanding pleasant fruity aroma,” said Mr Pavel Krška from the National Wine Centre.

Enclosure: Exhibitors and organisers of the National stall of wines from CR

For more information please contact:
Ing. Pavel Krška, Národní vinařské centrum, o.p.s.
E-mail: pavel.krska@vinarskecentrum.cz
Tel.: +420 721 414 575

More about Moravian and Bohemian wines at www.wineofczechrepublic.cz

Enclosure:

BOHEMIA SEKT, a.s.
www.bohemiasekt.cz
The BOHEMIA SEKT company will introduce Bohemia Sekt sparkling wines and wines of the brands Víno Mikulov, Habánské sklepy, Chateau Bzenec and Vinařství Pavlov at the London International Wine Fair 2009 this year already for the third time.
The most important sparkling wine producer in the Czech Republic, which holds more than 70% share of the Czech market of sparkling wines, keeps strengthening its position of a strong stakeholder not only on the Czech market, but it keeps its firm position in entire Central Europe. The company exports its products to 15 countries in the world.
Their sparkling wines and wines win many prestigious awards every year. Let’s mention for example the gold medals from the exhibitions Concours Mondial de Bruxelles and MUNDUS vini 2008 that were awarded to the exceptional dry sparkling wine Louis Girardot. In the same exhibition the Bohemia Sekt Prestige won a silver medal. In 2008 this sparkling wine brought another silver medal from Vinalies Internationales in Paris and from Vinitaly in Verona.

Moravské vinařské závody s.r.o.
www.mvz.cz
Company Moravské vinařské závody returned to the birthplace of the art of vine growing and wine making in Bzenec. Now, Moravské vinařské závody continues rich history and tradition of vine growing and making of high-quality varietal wines in royal wine town of Bzenec, in its original seat in the precinct of Bzenec chateau. The company Moravské vinařské závody Bzenec belongs among leading producers of quality and predicate Moravian wines. It continues old traditions of Moravian vine growing and wine making and provides it customers with quality wines of unique and unmistakeable varietal taste and aroma coming from the grapes of guaranteed origin from vine-growing region of Moravia, from selected wine villages of all subregions of Mikulov, Znojmo, Velké Pavlovice and Moravian Slovakia.
The wines produced by the company win best awards at prestigious world wine competitions (Vinitaly, Mondial Selection Brussels, DECANTER World Wine Award, etc.).
VINAŘSTVÍ MIKROSVÍN MIKULOV a.s. produces quality wines of vine grown in protected landscape area of Pálava. Sunny slopes with calcium rich soil produce high-quality grapes in vineyards. The philosophy of wine-growing is oriented to environmentally-friendly approach with maximal possible reduction of chemical inputs at vineyard and also in cellar. Thanks to these facts we produce wines of peak quality with long potential of ageing. Our corporate motto is: "We made the wine in vineyard." The core of our production lies in predicate wines, the collection of which belongs among most successful in our Republic.
www.mikrosvin.cz


Templářské sklepy Čejkovice, wine cooperative
www.templarske-sklepy.cz
The winery Templářské sklepy (Templar Cellars) Čejkovice follows its historical roots that are without question connected with the coming of Templar Knight Order in the 13th century. This 4th biggest winery in the Czech Republic with the yearly sale of more than 7 million bottles is at the same time the biggest wine cooperative with 430 members and 1 000 ha of vineyards. The winery uses modern production technology as well as 750 year old cellars. The portfolio of wines offered is very wide; it includes quality, predicate, vintage and special wines.
After a successful entry to the Slovak market and penetration on the Polish market Templářské sklepy Čejkovice will be presented on the ProWein show in Düsseldorf already for the second time. And for the first time they will take part in the IWF London. England, which has a long tradition in wine consumption, is a big challenge for Moravian wine-makers.

Skoupil Winery
www.skoupil.com
The family winery of Peter Skoupil from Velké Bílovice is a modern wine-making company that dates back to 1852 and its modern history started again in 1992. It focuses on the production of top quality predicate wines and quality wines for the most demanding customers. Wines are processed with a respect to the most ecological work in the vineyards, on principle the grapes are reduced on the bush and grapes picked manually. Only the most advanced grape processing technology is used in the winery.
The quality of wines is proved by a number of awards, when just in 2008 this winery won a gold medal at Vinalies Paris 2008, gold at Concours Mondial Bruxelles 2008, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals at San Francisco International Wine Competition 2008, silver at AWC Vienna, 2 wines were listed in the Wine Salon CR 2008/2009 and the height of the year was the victory at the prestigious competition “Wine-maker of the year 2008 in the Czech Republic”. The fact that the Skoupil wines are sought-after is proved by the constantly growing export: the winery has its representatives in Slovakia, they start to sell in Hongkong, Russia, Poland and they also prepare a sale in the USA.
At the LIWF 2009 they will present Moravian typical wines and wines awarded at the international competitions. They will include predicate wines of the year 2007 and white predicate wines from the year 2008.


Národní vinařské centrum, o.p.s. / Vinařský fond
www.vinarskecentrum.cz / www.vinarskyfond.cz
Národní vinařské centrum, o.p.s. (The National Wine Centre) is a non-profit organisation situated in the Valtice Chateau. Its objective is the promotion and support of wine and viticulture of the Czech Republic, not only with the help of the competition and wine-tasting exposition of the Wine Salon of CR, but also via expert literature publishing, organising training courses and seminars as well as general promotion of Moravian and Bohemian wines in close cooperation with the Winegrowers’ Fund of the Czech Republic.
Vinařský fond (The Wine Fund) was established in 2002 on the basis of a change of the “Wine Act”. Prior to the entry of CR into EU its objective was to support planting of new vineyards in the wine-growing regions Moravia and Bohemia; nowadays it supports only wine marketing, wine tourism development and informs public about wine-growing and wine-making. The Winegrowers’ Fund works on similar basis as organisations in other European wine-growing countries.