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CZECH SALON OF WINES:

The Representative Showcase

I have already boasted of several good ideas and projects with which the Czech
wine industry can inspire other wine-growing countries. However, this one is
unique and worth following. We have been proving this for 20 years!
Our wine producers have their own Salon of Wines of the Czech Republic - an
exhibition where the 100 highest rated wines of domestic origin are exhibited
every year. The exhibition is located in the vaulted cellars of the Valtice Château
close to the Austrian and Slovak border and the best thing about it is that for an
acceptable entrance fee you can taste all the displayed wines that you like and
you can also buy or order for home delivery here!
Whenever colleagues from abroad come to me, I always take them to the Salon of
te different styles, different varie-
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Wines. In one place they can tas- te diff
wine regions. It is a showcase
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Pavel Krška
Managing director of National Wine Center and Salon of Wines
of the Czech Republic. Wine educator and international wine
judge. Successful winemaker in the wine city of Pavlov. The one,
who spent his whole life with wine.
The exhibition is open 11 months a year. In hemia are evaluated. To give you an idea - over
January each year the old one is terminated 2,200 wines are regularly evaluated. The vast
cancelled, and a new series of wines is prepa- majority of producers and growers participate
red. At that time, a new guide to the wines on in the National Wine Competition, with the ex-
display is also printed each year. ception of a few solitaires which have political
The way in which the wines get into the ex- or ethical disagreements about the event. Last
hibition is also remarkable. year, during the ongoing coronavirus crisis,
The National Wine Centre organizes a multi- a record of 2541 wines took part. Any success
-stage National Wine Competition. In the intro- in the competition was to partially replace the
ductory rounds of the competition, the wines lack of communication with customers.
from the wine-growing sub-regions of Velké The National Wine Competition is evalua-
Pavlovice, Mikulov, Slovácko and Znojmo as ted through its own computer system ELWIS,
well as from the wine-growing region of Bo- developed by National Wine Centre (NVC).
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