Eben, Dvořák and Chlad over a glass of wines of the finalists of the VINOZOOM WINERY OF THE YEAR 2022!

Marek Eben and the Winery of the Year competition belong together. This year, he will be moderating the VINOZOOM WINERY OF THE YEAR 2022 award ceremony for the tenth time in his original way. He is not only the moderator of the competition, but also a great lover of wine. Before the ceremony, he will taste the selected wines from all the finalists, accompanied by experts, in an online tasting. The online video tasting will take place this Sunday, 15 January at 8 pm.

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Marek Eben again after a year accepted an invitation to a special tasting of the best of this year's productionfinalists, last year's absolute winner, and to make matters worse, the work of the Enologist of the Year 2021 will be added. He will talk about the wines, but not only about them, with Martin Chlad, President of the Union of Winemakers of the Czech Republic, and Ivo Dvořák, President of the Association of Sommeliers of the Czech Republic, will complement the characteristics of the individual samples.

Wines from the production of this year's finalists, last year's overall winner and Enologist of the Year 2021

You can watch the tasting on the competition's Facebook and YouTube channel, where it will also be available for viewing in retrospect. A wine set of all the presented wines is available for purchase on the VINOZOOM e-shop, so you can also taste them and get your own idea.

Tasted wines and contents of the wine set:

  • Vinařství Plenér - Pinot Noir, MZV, dry 2019/2020
  • Vinařství Škrobák - Tramín, grape selection, semi-sweet, 2021
  • Wine Kadrnka - Riesling - Fox Hill, late harvest, dry, 2021
  • THAYA winery - Sauvignon 2021, VOC, dry, 2021
  • Krásná hora - Merlot Barrel Selection, MZV, dry, 2019
  • Vinné sklepy Kutná Hora - Karluv Punk Pinot Gris, Czech, dry, 2022
  • CHÂTEAU VALTICE - Vinné sklepy Valtice - Frankovka, grape selection, barrique Premium Collection, 2017
  • ANNOVINO WINERY LEDNICE - Pinot Gris, botrytis harvest, sweet, 2018
  • BOHEMIA SEKT, Prestige 36, sparkling wine, brut, 2017
  • Reisten Winery - Last year's overall winner, Pinot Blanc / Maidenburg, 2019
  • THAYA winery - Ing. Jakub Smrčka, Enologist of the Year 2021, Apri Sauvignon, 2019

You can also listen to the tasting, and enjoy the wines in it, any time after its premiere, i.e. after 15 January.

You will find out who will be the winner of the VINOZOOM WINERY OF THE YEAR 2022 on 26 January at 6 pm via a live broadcast of the ceremony from the Brno Observatory and Planetarium.

More information about the competition, including a link to the live broadcast of the ceremony, can be found at www.vinarstviroku.cz and Instagram.