Twenty-one commissions composed of the top world enologists, expert journalists and sommeliers have been assessing for one week a total of 3485 wine samples from all over the world, including a hundred of wines from the Czech Republic. The common participation of wines from the Czech Republic, including transport, was organised by the National Wine Centre with a support of the Winegrowers’ Fund of CR. 
 
Moravian and Bohemian wines in Paris won a total of 9 gold and 26 silver medals, this means that the percentage success put the Czech Republic among the most successful exhibiting countries of the entire competition. 
 
“The gold medals rightfully belong to the Baloun Winery for their Traminer Red 2009 and Hibernal 2009; Springer Winery for Sylvaner Green, ice wine 2001 and Cuvée Springer family reserve 2004; Znovín Znojmo for Rhine Riesling, ice wine 2008; Tomáš Krist for Rhine Riesling, late gathered 2009; Moravské vinařské závody Bzenec for Traminer Red, late gathered 2008; Sonberk for Traminer Red, straw wine 2008; Petr Skoupil Winery for Müller Thurgau, cabinet 2009; summarises all most precious medals from this annual Vinalies Internationales“ Mr. Marek Babisz, chief sommelier of the National Wine Centre. 
More about wines at www.vinazmoravy.cz and www.vinazcech.cz. 
 
Official results are available at http://www.vinalies-internationales.fr/en/. 
 
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 
 
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Moravian and Bohemian wines brought 35 medals from the prestigious Parisian exhibition

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.

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

The ProWein exhibition is one of the biggest and most popular wine shows in the world. This year the organisers expect 3 000 exhibitors and more than 33 000 expert visitors. 
 
The Czech exposition (3E20) will be placed in the Hall No 3 and will be financed mostly from the Winegrowers’ Fund. The wines will represent the production of Bohemia Sekt, a.s, Templářské sklepy Čejkovice – wine kooperative, Nové vinařství, a.s. and the Petr Skoupil Winery. The central information stall about the Moravian and Bohemian wines will be arranged by professionals from the Winegrowers’ Fund and the National Wine Centre. 
 
“Our participation in ProWein, one of the most significant wine shows in the world, was in the past always successful from the view point of general presentations of our wines abroad as well as from the view point of commercial success of wineries that take part in the National Stall”, said Mr. Pavel Krška, Director of the National Wine Centre that organises the Stall and together with the Winegrowers’ Fund they will organise presentation of our wines. “It is a very interesting deed for image making of our wine abroad, similarly as the success of our wines at the most prestigious world competitions,” he added. 
 
This year will bring a new introduction of wines from the Czech Republic in the form of supervised wine-tasting directly in the Czech national exposition and is focused especially on wine-businessmen and journalists. It will be held on March 21 and 22 always from 2 p.m. It will include an introduction of Moravian and Bohemian wine-growing and tasting of 10 typical wines from the Czech Republic, including original varieties (e.g. Pálava and Aurelius) as well as ice and straw wines. 
 
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 
or 
mgr. Pavel Večeřa, Vinařský fond 
e-mail: vecera@vinarskyfond.cz, tel. +420 541 652 471 
 
More about wines from the Czech Republic at www.wineofczechrepublic.cz 
 
 
 
Enclosure: 
Introduction of the wineries participating in the National stall of wines from CR 
 
BOHEMIA SEKT , a.s. 
www.bohemiasekt.cz 
This year it is already for the seventh time when 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 international wine exhibition ProWein 2010 in Düsseldorf. 
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 player not only on the Czech market but it keeps its firm position in entire Central Europe. The company exports its products to almost 20 countries in the world. 
Their sparkling wines and wines win many prestigious awards every year. Let’s mention for example the silver medals for Louis Girardot brut, Bohemia Sekt Prestige brut and demi sec at the San Francisco International Wine Competition, the Bohemia Sekt Prestige brut also won a silver medal at the Vinalies Internationales in France. Their quiet wines were really successful at the Vinitaly in Verona and Concours Mondial de Bruxelles in France. 
 
Templářské sklepy Čejkovice, wine cooperative 
www.templarske-sklepy.cz 
The winery Templářské sklepy 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. 
For the third time the winery will be presented on the ProWein show in Düsseldorf. After a successful entry to the Slovak market and penetration on the Polish market Templářské sklepy Čejkovice want to address visitors from North Europe who frequently visit this exhibition. 
 
Petr Skoupil Winery 
www.skoupil.com 
History of the family winery stretches back to the mid 19th century. The wine grower and maker Petr Skoupil has been operating the winery since 1992. It issues from the historic roots of wine-growing and making in the region of Velké Bílovice. However, the winery also seeks new ways to reach the top quality of wine. They carefully work on 35 ha of own vineyards emphasizing ecologically friendly techniques and reduced grape picking. Chemicals are used only to a limited extent. Grapes are carefully processed immediately after picking. Wine are produced from the cider via controlled fermentation, selected wine batches mature in barrels from French oak. The result is varietal clear and interesting predicate wines with a wide spectrum of primary aromatic agents and a distinct fruit character. The wines won many awards at the local and foreign competitions e.g. Vinalies Internationales, Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, San Francisco International Wine Competition (Best of Nation 2x), Prague Wine Trophy, Mundus Vini. 
The Petr Skoupil Winery will take part in the ProWein 2010 fair for the first time and will introduce predicate wines as for example Pinot Gris, Müller Thurgau, Valtelina Green 2009, from the red wines Blue Portugal, Limberger (Frankovka) and Merlot 2008. 
 
Nové Vinařství, a.s. 
www.novevinarstvi.cz 
NOVÉ VINAŘSTVÍ is among the most progressive wineries in the Czech Republic. It applies a modern approach to grape growing and wine making emphasizing quality of wine as well as quality of packaging. Nové Vinařství as the first in the Czech Republic used the modern screw locks and later also glass caps VÍNO–LOK. In 2007 it was awarded the prize “Managerial Deed of the Year in Design” that reflects enormous effort that the winery dedicates to emballage. 
NOVÉ VINAŘSTVÍ works on 110 ha of own vineyards near the Austrian border circa 70 km from Vienna. The vineyards are cultivated very carefully emphasizing the highest possible quality of grapes that means that one bush gives grapes approximately for one bottle of wine. Grapes are picked only manually. 
The winery produces only white and rosé wines. They are sold under the brands Cuveé – blend wines, Cépage – varietal wines, Léger – wines with low alcohol content, Murmure – sparkling and semi-sparkling wines and Jus de Cépage – grape ciders. 
During the four years of its existence Nové Vinařství won 10 medals at the prestigious London exhibition DECANTER WORLD WINE AWARDS and 8 medals at the CONCOURS MONDIAL DE BRUXELLES. 
 
The National Wine Centre / Wine Fund 
www.vinarskecentrum.cz / www.vinarskyfond.cz 
The National Wine Centre is a non-profit organisation situated in the Valtice Chateau. It 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. 
Winegrowers’ 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.

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