BOHEMIA SEKT, s.r.o. - Winery of the Year 2022 - winner of the category large winery

BOHEMIA SEKT is a traditional Czech producer of sparkling and still wines. Today, more than two thirds of sparkling wines drunk in the Czech Republic come from its production. It is also one of the most important grape growers and the largest processor of Moravian grapes. In 2022, the company's story has been written for an incredible 80 years. In 1942, the company Českomoravské sklepy sparkling wines was founded and fermented its first sparkling wines in the cellars of the former brewery in Starý Plzenec. Among the first to taste the local sparkling wines were the American soldiers who liberated the region in 1945. The French oenologist and native of Epernay, Louis Giradot, made an indelible mark on history. At the end of the 1940s, he passed on his experience in the production of sparkling wines to local cellarers. The specially bred yeasts he used to produce sparkling wines are still used in sparkling wine production today. The Bohemia Sekt brand celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2020 and regularly enriches its range with new products from thesuch as the successful Bohemia Sekt ICE and Ice PiNK!. However, it does not give up on established champagne stalwarts such as the exceptional Chateau Radyně extra brut, which is the longest continuously produced champagne in the country. The first bottles of this sparkling wine saw the light of day in the mid-1940s. Sparkling wines produced using the classic method of fermentation in a bottle from the Bohemia Sekt Prestige range regularly win awards in this country and around the world. The BOHEMIA SEKT group also includes the well-known Moravian wineries Habánské sklepy, Vinařství Pavlov, Víno Mikulov and Chateau Bzenec.

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