One Hundred Best Moravian and Bohemian Wines – the complete results from the Wine Salon – National Wine Competition of the Czech Republic 2017

• The highest accolade among the dry white and semi-dry white wines was awarded to the Welschriesling 2015, late harvest, from the Collection 1508 Reservé range from the Chateau Winery Bzenec (Zámecké Vinařství Bzenec). Simultaneously this wine was proclaimed Absolute Champion of this year’s Wine Salon.  
• Other than the Absolute Champion and the one hundred best wines the judges also decided upon the winners in the individual categories:
• In the category of dry and semi-dry red wines the winner was Pinot Noir barrique 2013, special selection of grapes from the Štěpán Maňák Winery.
• In the semi-sweet white wine category the jury gave the highest rating to Welschriesling botrytic selection 2015, special selection of grapes from the wine producing company Kamil Prokeš s.r.o.
• In the category for rosé and blanc des noirs (klaret) wines success went to Cabernet Sauvignon rosé 2015, late harvest from the Víno Botur Winery – Ing. Luděk Botur.  
• The jury chose as the best in the sweet white wine category Grüner Veltliner 2013, special selection of berries from the Wine School Valtice.  
• In the quality sparkling wine category the highest marks went to Chateau Bzenec brut 2013, quality sparkling wine from the BOHEMIA SEKT s.r.o. group of companies.
• Just like last year the prize for the best overall collection of wines was bestowed on the winery VINSELEKT MICHLOVSKÝ, a.s.

On the wines in the Wine Salon  

The Wine Salon presents the best wines from our wineries and its proclamation comes as the most important event of the year not only for wine lovers. This is confirmed by the growing year-on-year attendance at the Wine Salon tasting exhibition. In the Wine Salon tasting exhibition wines awarded gold medals at the Wine Salon of the Czech Republic will be on permanent display.  

Out of all those wines present, 80 white wines were chosen for the collection, of which 63 were dry or semi-dry, 10 were semi-sweet and 7 were sweet wines. 17 red wines are represented. The collection is complemented by 1 rosé and 2 sparkling wines.

The best represented wine region is, with regard to the extent of its area under vine, the Mikulov wine sub-region with 27 wines, this is followed by the Velké Pavlovice wine sub-region with 31 wines, Slovácko wine sub-region with 22 and Znojmo wine sub-region with 16 wines. The Bohemian wine region is represented this year by 3 wines from the Mělník wine sub-region, whilst one example is a generic wine without a specified sub-region stated.

The most successful white grape varieties of this year have been Riesling with 14 representatives, Pinot Blanc with 12 and Grüner Veltliner with 11 exemplars. Pinot Noir was the best represented red wine (4) ahead of Cabernet Sauvignon and Zweigeltrebe (3). In all the final hundred wines come from 24 grape varieties, which only serves to demonstrate the bountifulness of our winemaking and our vintners‘ boundless capability of coming up with first-rate wines from so many varieties.

According to the quality-classification in this year’s Wine Salon of the Czech Republic most wines are in the late-harvest category (55) and these are followed by 19 special selections of grapes. We have 8 representatives in the kabinet-wine category, 5 quality varietal wines and 2 samples of Moravian land wines. There are 3 wines in the special selection of berries category, 2 special selections of botrytised berries and there is 1 example of a liqueur wine. Quality sparkling wines have 2 representatives. Wines of VOC denomination are already very well established among our best, and in the Wine Salon it will also be possible to taste 3 of them.

The year 2015 is the dominant vintage in this Wine Salon with 77 wines, and these are followed by 16 wines from the 2013 vintage.

The winery having the greatest number of successful wines is VINSELEKT MICHLOVSKÝ, a. s. with 10 wines in total. This is followed by Ing. Miroslav Volařík and Zámecké Vinařství Bzenec s. r. o. with a total of 6 wines apiece.  

The complete results can be downloaded below.  

On the competition and the Wine Salon of the Czech Republic

In the qualifying rounds of the competition in the wine sub-regions of Velké Pavlovice, Mikulov, Slovácko and Znojmo and the Bohemian wine region, the 1,116 best exemplars were selected out of a total of 2,020 samples. These qualified for the competition’s first nationwide round. The best 202 from these then went on to fight it out at the second round, from which emerged the 100 best wines, to be awarded gold medals of the Wine Salon of the Czech Republic, those of the Absolute Champion, the category winners and the best overall collection in the Wine Salon – National Wine Competition 2017. The remaining wines, those that fought through to the final two hundred without receiving a gold medal, were awarded silver medals with the caveat that they had to receive a minimum of 83 points out of a possible 100 in the final round.

Selection of tasters and the system of evaluation  

In the contest’s committees each year our best tasters are to be found – holders of international tasting examinations following EU standards – who act, together with a modern computer system, the multi-round evaluation and the warranty of the Union of Winemakers of the Czech Republic, as the guarantee of objectivity in the selection of what are truly the very best wines from Moravia and Bohemia.

An important yet fundamental attribute of the competition is the requirement of the prior bottling of the registered wine lot and the collection of samples directly from the winery by the competition organiser, who has the right to any 6 bottles of the registered lot.

The Wine Salon – National Wine Competition is one of a few competitions which systematically carries out checks through chemical analysis of the compliance of the declared and the actual specifications of a wine. As well as this the Wine Salon – National Wine Competition is without dispute the strictest competition of its type in the Czech Republic.

Patronage    

As last year the Wine Salon – National Wine Competition 2017 took place under the auspices of the President of the Czech Republic, Miloš Zeman, and the Minister of Agriculture, Marian Jurečka.

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Press release. Further information from:

Pavel Krška, National Wine Centre, o.p.s.

E-mail: pavel.krska@vinarskecentrum.cz

Tel: +420 519 352 072, +420 721 414 575

 

Dominika Uhrová, Omnimedia, s. r. o.

E-mail: d.uhrova@omnimedia.cz

Tel: +420 774 530 255