The wine region of Velkopavlovicka is located in the region of Jihomoravsky of Czech Republic. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Vinařství František Mádl - Malý Vinař or the Domaine J. Stavek produce mainly wines white, red and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Velkopavlovicka are Pinot gris, Chardonnay and Pinot noir, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety.
On the nose of Velkopavlovicka often reveals types of flavors of orange, earth or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit, blueberry or citrus. We currently count 63 estates and châteaux in the of Velkopavlovicka, producing 411 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Velkopavlovicka go well with generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or mature and hard cheese.
Last year, there was much mirth on wine Twitter about a particularly excruciating tasting note. You’re right. The wine trade needs to get out more. But still… this one was a beauty. It began well enough – really quite beautiful, in fact. But before long the imaginative descriptions were getting more ornate and strained. It moved from poetic to meaningless before finishing with a reference to Burnt Norton – the first of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets – that put it firmly in Private Eye magazine’s ...
Jean-Guillaume Prats is set to leave the business around four years after being appointed CEO and president of Domaines Barons de Rothschild (DBR Lafite). A DBR Lafite spokesperson said Prats would leave before the end of the year, in order to ‘devote himself to his family business and to consulting’. Group chairwoman Saskia de Rothschild will take over the executive management of DBR Lafite as of December. Prats’ arrival at DBR Lafite was announced in November 2017 as part of a leadership ...
A methuselah of Romanée-Conti 1976 from Burgundy’s vaunted Domaine de la Romanée-Conti was among the highlights in a two-day series of Sotheby’s wine and spirits auctions in Hong Kong last weekend. The six-litre bottle sold for HK$1.25m (US$159,350), against a pre-sale estimate range of HK$1m to HK$1.4m. In a separate spirits auction, a single bottle of Yamazaki 35 Year Old Japanese whisky fetched HK$1m (US$127,440). Rare white Burgundy was also in-demand during the weekend event. Top lot in a f ...
