Rose Wines
Rose wine is a natural dry wine made from dark-skin grape varieties. Rose wine is produced using the same procedure as red wine, but the leaching of the dye from the skins into the wine in the preparation must only take a short time.
André Rosé
This wine has an antique rose colour with flashes of dried orange peel. The aroma will appeal with stewed strawberries and raspberry pie. The taste is sweet with a distinct over-ripeness and fullness at the end with a refreshing zesty acidity.
Blaufränkisch Rosé (Lemberger Rosé)
Wine with the colour of smoked salmon. It has a captivating aroma of fruity scent of a raspberry and redcurrant. The taste is fresh, balanced with an aspect of wild strawberries with whipped cream. This wine is recommended with pasta salads and fine adjustments to freshwater fish.
Zweigeltrebe Rosé
Unobtrusive, the opening aroma of fresh blackberries supports refreshingly spicy, fruity taste with a clearly legible character typical for the Rosé type wines. This wine is perfect as refreshment on hot summer days.
Rose Sparkling Wines
Try the sparkling wine of beautiful pink colour with fine delicate aroma and full-bodied flavours.
Red Wines
Red wine is a natural dry wine made from black grapevine. Red wine is a very broad category of wine, from light wines with little tannin, which we serve slightly chilled, to the wines suitable for long ageing.
Cabernet Cortis
Cabernet Cortis is an early stum grape variety (hybrid variety) created in 1982 in Germany as a cross breed of Cabernet Sauvignon and Solaris. It was registered in 2003.
Characteristics of the wine:
Similar to the Cabernet Sauvignon wines, usually with an even stronger aroma. Younger wines have a typical spiciness. It is suitable for prolonged ripening or for training in oak barrels.
Matching food:
Grilled meat, steaks, venison, spicy foods, blue cheese.
Cabernet Moravia
Ripening is very late, therefore it belongs into the hottest locations. If the technology is well managed, Cabernet Moravia is one of the top Moravian wines.
Characteristics of the wine:
Red wines have a deep garnet color, and fine cabernet tones in aroma and taste. After degradation of malic acid wine becomes very full, soft, with a well-structured tannins and a long lasting after taste.
Matching food:
Grilled meat, steaks, venison, spicy sauces.
Cabernet Sauvignon
Variety Cabernet Sauvignon probably already existed in the Roman times. It is grown all around the world. It became the most popular black variety before the end of the 20th century. It is also grown in our country for almost a decade now, mostly in the Mikulov wine subregion.
Characteristics of the wine:
Dark garnet colour. Depending on the ripeness of the grapes, its aroma of blackcurrants can be complemented by an aroma of cherries, blackberries, tobacco, cedar or jam. The wine is powerful, with a long-lasting impression and when matured in a bottle it becomes velvety. Suitable for longer storage.
Matching food:
Dark meat, game, hard cheeses.
Dornfelder
Medium early variety bred in 1955 in Germany, where it became one of the most popular German black varieties. It is presently planted on 0.6% of the Czech Republic’s vineyards, mostly in Great Pavlovice and Mikulov wine subregions.
Characteristics of the wine:
Wine colour is very deep red, with a strong fruity aroma, full-bodied extractive taste, with ringing sensation after acids. Can be very strong depending on the year. In the smell and taste we can find forest berries, cranberries, nuts, and sometimes green peppers in the wines from less ripe grapes. Most of these wines are specifically made to be drank young.
Matching food:
Grilled meat, seasoned steaks, venison, cheeses.
Lemberger (Blaufränkisch)
Very old variety of an ambiguous place of origin. One of Lemberger’s ancestors was vine variety Heunisch. This type is not grown in Bohemia. But in Moravia it was the most common black variety in the 19th century, and it is now second most common. It is mostly grown in the wine region Bzenec and Strážnice.
Characteristics of the wine:
The colour is dark cherry to purple. The aroma is distinctively fruity, reminding plums and black fruit, woody, and almost wild in the young wines. The taste is woody, fruity with flavours of dried black fruit, with pronounced tannins, highly extractive. Mostly medium-bodied, with a woody to spicy taste and slightly astringent towards the end. Suitable for longer storage.
Matching food:
Game, red meat, poultry, pasta, blue cheese.
Merlot
Old, late cider red variety. Its exact origin is unknown. It originates from France, its genetic origin shows cross breeding with Cabernet. It is widespread throughout the world, the largest vineyards are located in France.
Characteristics of the wine:
The wine is full-bodied, of an excellent quality and taste, and has a dark colour. Merlot is somewhat softer, rounder and especially richer in tannins than Cabernet Sauvignon. Good Merlot is marked by aromas and flavours of red fruit (usually cherries, sometimes redcurrant).
Matching food:
Young wines go with light dishes, heavier wines go with game.
Pinot Noir
Variety probably comes from the Nile river-basin and is one of the oldest grapevine varieties in the world. It was spread around Europe by the Phoenicians, Greeks and the Romans. It is grown mainly in Burgundy, but also in other areas of France. It was brought to Czech in the 14th century by the king Charles IV.
Characteristics of the wine:
Pale ruby to brick-red colour. The smell of young wine brings out blackberries and strawberries. The wine from ripe grapes reminds of rather black cherries. We get the smell of leather, wood smoke, and dried plums in the mature wines. The acids and tannins are fine.
Matching food:
Pasta, poultry, beef meat, venison, cakes.
Saint Laurent
Medium early variety was spread from the territory of France in the 19th century into Germany and surroundings. Czech Republic began to grow it after 1900’s and to this day it is still the most widespread black vine variety.
Characteristics of the wine:
Dark garnet colour with violet hues. Hints of tannins and acids are accompanied by the scent of cherries and sometimes blackcurrant. The wine is medium to full-bodied. Its distinctive character changes into crisp and eventually velvety fullness at the time of bottle maturity.
Matching food:
Pasta, chicken, duck, goose, spicy pork, venison, cakes.
Zweigeltrebe
This Austrian variety was bred in 1922 by crossing the St. Laurent with Lemberger (Blaufränkisch) and is now the most common black variety. It came to the Czech Republic in the second half of the twentieth century.
Characteristics of the wine:
Dark red colour, fruity and spicy flavour reminiscent of cherries and other berry fruits. Wines have a different fullness. The fullness and complex tannins are achieved during the controlled harvests, which helps towards smooth and harmonious wine.
Matching food:
Spicy meat, pheasant, steak, hard cheeses, pasta.
André
Late stum variety was created at the Breeding Station at the Great Pavlovice in 1961. It was named after Ch K André, who established the world’s first society for fruit breeding in the city of Brno. This vine is only grown in Moravia.
Characteristics of the wine:
Normally the colour is dark, intense red. Aroma is typical, it is similar to Southern type wines with its depth and fullness. The taste is harmonious. Taste in young wines is distinctively acidic and harsh, but mature wine is full-bodied and aromatic with tannins.
Matching food:
Dark meat, smoked meat, hard cheese.