31 December 2009:

It's all over... Friends have left, the cellar has been cleaned (again) and the Day of Open cellar with the highest number of visitors in history is slowly drawing to its close.
Last Saturday, on 28 November 2009, another Day of open cellars in Pavlov took place. 10 Pavlov winemakers (vinařství Abrlových, vinařství ing. Jan Garčic, vinařství Ilias, vinařství ing. Pavel Krška, vinařství ing. Mikulský, vinařství Jiří Šilinek, Réva Rakvice - sklep Pavlov, vinařství Vilém Topolanský, Vinařství Pavlov and vinařství Antonín Zatloukal) opened their cellars to visitors.

And the preparations go on today, 26 November:. We have cleaned down cobwebs, turned out spiders and mice.. but most of all, we bottled the remaining barrels of Modrý Portugal! In other words, we are now well prepared for your invasion on Saturday :-)

25 November: We made significant progress in our preparations for this Saturday of Open cellars as well as for pre-Christmas shopping fever: we bottled remaining Merlot! We now have on our store over one thousand bottles of Merlot again....

For now, our Czech Grand Tour ended in Benátky nad Jizerou, in the U vinice wine bar in the Husovo náměstí square. The wine tasting took place on Friday 20 November 2009, starting again at 7 pm. Again, we enjoyed it very much and hope to see you some time in the future, this time maybe directly in our cellar in Moravia.

On Friday, 14 November Saint Martin's goose was served along with Saint Martin's and 2009 wines in the Pavlov hotel. We could not miss this event and did not regret it. Both wine and goose were delicious!

Our second stop was last Friday 13 November 2009 in Mladá Boleslav, or more exactly in nearby Kosmonosy. We were opening 2008 wines for you in the "Divadýlko" wine bar. The Saint Martina wine tasting was very pleasant, we enjoyed it very much, and we hope you did as well! We are looking forward to seeing you at the same place in a year's time!

5 November: We succeeded! We have bottled ice wine Ryzlink vlašský 2008! Wine of beautiful bouquet and harmonic taste, only in 'limited edition' 200 bottles...

We started the autumn Czech Grand Tour. Our first stop was on Tuesday 3 November 2009 at the Vinotéka U sv. Vincenta wine bar (Liborova 13, Břevnov) in Prague. The presentation was very pleasant, we even tasted some of our 2006 and 2005 wines.

29 October: As of today, you can also find us on Facebook:-)

24 October: This year's wine picking is over. Fatigue mingles with relief and satisfaction over hard work done. Though there is still a great deal of work ahead of us in the cellar, we are one step closer to beautiful 2009 wines.

22 October: Finally! We have got first red stum! And it's yummy... :-)

21 October: We gathered strength for the finish! Today, we are picking Tramín červený (Gewurztraminer) and Pinot noir at the same time. We are approaching the home straight of this year's harvest very fast.

19 October: Everything in the cellar is bubling and fermenting, it all seems to be going in the right direction. And we gather strenght and warmth for tomorrow's picking.

While labouring at the vineyards and in the cellar during the harvest, we were very pleased and cheered up by a kind profile of our winery by Klára Kollárová and Ondřej Kopička from Vinograf (see Mr. Ilias' viticultural Odyssea). If you like the profile and feel like tasting our wines, you can pop in the Vinograf wine shop in Verónský dům in Míšeňská street in Prague. and taste our wines in the company of Klára Kollárová or other leading sommeliers and tasters.

14 October: It seems that autumn is over before it actually started :) But everything has to picked so we managed to pick Modrý Portugal today. It will be a delicious selection of grapes...

12 October: It's official now: the summer is over and we all we have is rainy and muddy autumn. We still hope that weather gets better so that we could finish wine picking.

10 October: It seems that summer is gone now. But the wine picking does not stop. So we pray that it does not rain too much and bravely continue wading through muddy vineyards...

9 October: Ryzlink vlašský has been picked and together with the rest of white varieties it is bubbling and yeasting in the cellar:-)
Tomorrow early morning we set out to tackle Veltlín...

6 October: So we managed to picked Ryzlink vlašský (Welschriesling). Or at least its majority. Again, its sweet late harvest:-) This year has really turned out well...

3 October: Back on earth :-) Despite (or maybe thanks to?) yesterday's wine and food feast, we set out full of energy to face further containers with grapes. Today, greatly reinforced by the Prague ring, we are going to crack down Pinot gris...

2 October: It's all over. Big food and wine feast in winemakers' heaven, Vinum Coeli hotel in Dolní Kounice. A very enjoyable event presented by Branko Černý. And what exactly did we and other great Moravian winemakers enjoy? Have a look at the evening's menu.

1 October: Chardonnay has followed Pint blanc into the cellar.. Energy is slowly evaporating, but ethusiasm persists:-)

30 September: Pint blanc is slowly settling down in the cellar.. and we are gathering strength for tomorrow's picking of Chardonnay. Fingers crossed that weather remains as favourable as it has been so far..

29 September: Today, with energy and enthusiasm typical for the beginning of the harvest and in an unrecorded time, we picked first grapes - Pinot Blanc. Lovely sweet late harvest. Let's keep it up!

28 September: The cellar is empty, tanks and other containers have been washed and are awaiting their future content. Starting tomorrow, we are taking this year's harvest by storm and we start the annual marathon of hand-picking, destemming, crushing, transfering between containers and skimming off :-) In brief, the harvest is here... We are confident that this year's harvest will beat those of prior years.

We visited winemakers' heaven again:-) ... Those who stopped by in the Vinum Coeli hotel in Dolní Kounice during the week from 21 to 27 August 2009 could be served dishes together our wines, or even a special menu designed to complement our wines. The whole week started on Friday 21th at 8.30 pm by a winetasting moderated by Branko Černý.

On Sunday 23 August 2009, we presented our winery and mainly its products at Rájec nad Svitavou chateau.

Harvest is approaching fast, so we are emptying the cellar to accomodate it. This week, we bottled Merlot and Modrý Portugal.

The open-day weekend from 14 to 16 August is now over. We were pleasantly surprised by the number of visitors who stopped by (including some from abroad, even from South or North America) and we hope that all visitors left the cellar not only slighly vinous, but above all satisfied. You can find more details about the remaining individual events during the summer on the official Pavlov website. We are now looking forward to seeing you again during the autumn open days.

Last week we bottled and stored Pinot noir and Cabernet Sauvignon... :-) Next week, we plan to finish the red ones by bottling the remaining ones - Merlot and Modrý Portugal.

On 3 August 2009 we held yet this year's second tasting of our wines at ArtCafé/ "U Kláštera" boarding house in Český Krumlov. We think it was another memorable evening, and our red ones were particularly admired.

Chardonnay is now also resting peacefully in bottles, waiting for its future amateurs... Slowly but surely we're getting ready to bottle our red wines too...

We added Tramín červený (Gewurztraminer) and Modrý Portugal Claret...

We have bottled first two samples of 2008: Pinot blanc a Pinot gris. Come taste them and spend some time with us in our new degustation premises :-)

We just returned from a short 'intelligence' mission to Provence, France. We enjoyed it very much. Here you can have a look at some pictures we took on the road.

We accepted an invitation to an international exhibition of wines. With much pleasure, we presented our wines and tasted locale delicacies on 24 April 2009 in Slovakia, namely in the town of Sväty Jur. You can find more details about the 19th Wine exhibition at the website of Sväty Jur Wine Association.

On Saturday 11 April 2009 Pavlov's cultural facility hosted another year of the wine exhibition "Pavlov 2009". Starting from 10am, it was possible to taste up to 650 samples...

... and so as to get us really busy, nearby Zaječí also held its 19th year of Wine Tasting on Saturday 11 April 2009. We attended this event too, and with great pleasure, since our Chardonnay 2007 was awarded the Champion of the Exhibition award.

On Saint Valentine's Day, Saturday 14 February 2009, we took part in a tasting of young wines held in the splendid Temple hotel in Mikulov.

On Sunday 1 February 2009, we participated at a gala opening of ArtCafé, a new coffee house and a galery of Miro Požar in Český Krumlov.

On Friday, 16 January 2009, a Gala tasting of wines awarded in the competition Prague Trophy 2008 was held in Prague as a part of the Prague Wine Week in the splendid Břevnov monastery. The competition is organised by the Víno Revue magazine. In 2008, 718 wines from 26 countries have been competing and altogether 10 Champion awards and 206 medals were awarded. The visitors were served most of these wines during the Gala tasting. We served our award winning Chardonnay which was accompanied by several other wines from our cellar. Our stall was visited by many interesting and nice people. We look forward that some of them will soon stop by in our cellar in Pavlov so that we could taste our young wines.

9. 1.- 10.1.2009 We pressed and processed this year's ice wine!

31 Dec 2008 Traditional New Year's Eve climb up to the Děvičky castle to raise a toast to the success of 2009.

29 Nov 2008 As a part of the traditional day of open cellars in Pavlov by members of the VINITORES Palaviensis association, we welcomed a record number of visitors this year. We are already looking forward to see you again next year, on Saturday 28.11.2009!

26 Nov 2008 Second wine tasting for the Wine Amateurs' Society in the Lustermann wine cellar in Verona house in Míšenská street, Prague. A well-attended presentation carried itself in a friendly atmosphere and has yielded some interesting new contacts. Thanks to its success, we will probably repeat this pleasant evening at the same venue next year.

21 Nov 2008 New gate :-). As of today, a new door to the storage room will welcome you. The gate significantly improves working conditions in our family manufactory, especially for the "working class" that spends a considerable time in here labelling, sealing and packing the bottles before they are dispatched to the customer.

8 Nov 2008 The battle is won! This year's harvest is over. A single line of Pinot Blanc is left in the vineyard. We would like to produce some ice wine from it so we will postpone the harvest until the first frost strikes. The rest of our wine is already safe down in the cellar, fermenting and bubbling.

6 Oct 2008 Despite somewhat bad weather, we start this year's harvest.

3 Oct 2008 Hooray, bottling done! Today we filled and corked last bottles with 2007 wines. The cellar is empty and impatiently awaiting this year's harvest.

24 Sep 2008 Our Chardonnay (a selection of grapes, 2007) won a bronze medal in the 9th round of the Revue Wine Trophy 2008 competition, out of a record number of 108 Chardonnay samples from thirteen countries.

5-7 Sep 2008 We are the last winery to open its doors during the Summer of Open Cellars in Pavlov, a traditional yearly event promoting the village. Although we have not yet managed to put all of our last year's production into bottles, no customer leaves dissatisfied or empty-handed.