Vineyard in Valtice: Nature has determined the conditions 16 million years ago

Wine village Valtice

587 ha of vineyards and 23 tracks

Úvaly: Kamenné hory, Hůrka, Pod Sluneční hory, Sonnenberg, Nad Mlýnem, Panský hill, Za Humny, Old Mountains, near Cihelny, southern slopes.Valtice: Nad Hell, Terraces at the Cross Cellar, Pod Reistná, Princely Views, Hintertals, South Slopes, Terraces near Hranice, Sacny, Kačisdorfi Field, Upper Quarter, Culists - Luhé, Hájky, SV.Anna.

The Annovino Lednice Winery can boast of the Valtice underground thanks to the special geological conditions.13 connected historic cellars reaches a length of 900 meters.In addition to corridors and smaller cellars there are three large halls for social events.

They were built by monks from the long -canceled minorite monastery, it was expanded for the purposes of the Liechtenstein Castle, not their digging were also attended by other owners of the local houses and vineyards.Each part of the cellars belonged at different times to someone else, especially according to the relevant buildings and vineyards on the surface, until Annovino connected them to a large complex that tourists can see as a historical monument, use cultural events and.

Valtice underground is the most visited wine tourist destination in the Czech Republic.

Vinohrady at the Cihelny Valtice

"We have exceptional tracks in Valtice.These are mostly brown -ground and black -leaf.In places to the surface, fossils of the Tertiary limestone get.It is a soil rich in minerals and calcium, which is reflected in the taste of our wines - a fine minerality, "says Petr Krejčík, marketing director Annovino.

The pride in the rouland

The local winemakers are proud of the wines of the Pinot Gris varieties that they grow on 24 hectares.It owns even the original clone from the real of this cultivar, ie from the area of northern Italy, around Verona."Sometimes we say that in the taste of our Pinot Gris there is something from the poetics of Romeo and Juliet," says Petr Krejčík with a smile."This clone is relatively easy to mature to all grades of attributive wines.Sommeliers claim to have something like Tokaji - honey, apple crosses or other dried fruits."

Of course, there are also red tram, Riesling, Pinotard Blue, White, Sauvignon, Pálava and almost unknown variety Sevar in Vinohrady.

They also specialize in Hibernal, which is a new variety in our regions, but bred already in the middle of 20.century in Germany.Hibernal is a very promising variety.Already the first wine from the virgin harvest in 2012 in the form of straw wine received a double gold medal at the Terrawino Israel competition, which is one of the world's most prestigious competitions.This shows its great potential in the Lednice and university vineyards."It is typical for our winery that we use Schlegel bottles.Both the Liechtenstein were twisted into them."

Sarmat Sea in Moravia

The cadastre of the village Úvaly and Valtice lies geologically on the edge of the Viennese Basin.The Vienna Basin was created in the Tertiary when the Alps and the Carpathians rose because Africa pushed on Europe.As a result of extensive horrors movements 15 to 16 million years ago, the territory to the north and east of the Alps dropped.

Immediately after the decline in the Viennese Basin, a shallow and warm subtropical Sarmat Sea was created in it.Calcous sands, calcareous claystones and whitish algae limestones settled on its bottom.Sands and gravels remained between them.

Over the next millions of years, the closed Sarmat Sea has lost its salinity.11.5 million years ago the waters in this area were sweet.At the bottom of the huge inland lake at that time, clays settled and on the shallows of the sand.Today we see it in the tutors of the chateau park and also in the excavated cellars of the Valtice underground.

At the end of the Tertiary, approximately 10 million years ago, continents on the globe got to today's position.The Atlantic Ocean opened and at the same time closed the Ocean Tethys.Mediterranean and Black Sea separated from the shallow Sarmat Sea.

Far from Europe, Antarctica separated from Australia and traveled to the South Pole.As a result, the directions of sea currents have changed and the south of the globe has permanently frozen.Therefore, the country has cooled, the water in the oceans has partially turned into ice, the sea level dropped, and because of this the sea definitely retreated from Bohemia and Moravia.

Dinosaurs died out, reptiles reduced the number of species.Mammals and birds, on the other hand, began a stormy development.The first hominids appeared, our ancestors.

7 to 9 million sea in Bohemia and Moravia virtually disappeared.The inland lake was clogged with sediments from the mainland and the Viennese pelvis turned into a system of swamps, rivers and lakes.

South Moravia

In Quaternary, it has been around the last 2 million years, alternated warm periods and ice times.The continental glacier detained the Jeseníky and the Giant Mountains from the north, but the glacier floats hit somewhere to Brno.This resulted in an intense erosive activity.Due to the western and northwest winds, the loess of the east and the southeast -oriented slopes around Valtice, mainly the dominant wine hill of the Rajstna and the adjacent border ridges, occurred.

At this time and under these conditions, loess soils of Valtice wine tracks were formed.Most of the vineyards are laid south of the city on the border back stretching from the village of Sedlec to the Austrian village of Katzelsdorf.Characteristic are very deep loess, which are an advantage in the first years of vineyard life, and in the lower layers stored with limestone deposits that vines love in adulthood.Therefore, Valtice wines, mainly from older vineyards, have a mineral overtone enhanced by a robust body based on a loess basis.

To do this, the favorable climate is needed in South Moravia.Sunshine, total annual temperature and rainfall is a condition of maturing grapes.Valtice located at the southernmost tip of the Czech Republic reaches an average annual temperature of over 9 ° C, precipitation over 550 mm and 2 thousand hours full of sunlight.

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