"Czech Republic made a splash this year — walking away with the Platinum Best in Show award for the Best Dry Aromatic" - writes Laura Seal from Decanter after Sonberk Pálava 2015 VOC winning this precious medal - first time in the Czech Republic´s history.
Read the full article at Decanter.com - by clicking HERE.
Mikuláš Duda blogs on tasting new wines (vintage 2015) from Sonberk in Prague´s premiere wine bar Bokovka.
The article (in Czech) is available on the blog podkorkem.cz
Photo: Mikuláš Duda
English THE BUYER wrote about evening 29th September when we presented to world our Pálava during food matching with Indian food of famous chef Cyrus Todiwala in his Café Spice Namaste.
The most successful was food matching of pigeon together with our Ryzlink rýnský 2012 and king of evening was our dry Pálava 2012 pairing with exotic duck.
Full menu and impressions you can read here.
How is the situation with Riesling in the Czech lands? A blind tasting and its very interesting outcome, see JizniSvah.cz
Wine production is associated with traditional cellars and basements, but today's trend is to build modern architectural works whose projects are often entrusted with top studios. You can see for yourself at the new exhibition entitled Architecture and wine in Central Europe.
original article in Czech upon clicking the image:
Palava 2011 late harvest from the winery Sonberk in Popice, South Moravia won the gold medal at the international competition Vinandino 2013 in Argentina. The competition, which took place last week, rated more than 750 wines from 13 countries.
Original article in Czech upon clicking the image: