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Main Page > Regions & Wineries > Wine region MORAVIA > Sub-region Mikulov

The town of Mikulov was an important wine centre very early on thanks to the superb location of its winemaking, due as much to its immediate proximity to the town as to the many wine communes in the surrounding area, foremost among which is that in the distinguished decorative château inValtice, in whose cellars the National Wine Salon can be found. The oldest wine school in the country is also located in Valtice. The principal scenic beauty spot is Pálava - the last outcrop of the limestone Alps and a pearl embedded at the edge of the enchanting region of the lower Podyjí. This protected area, along with the Lednice-Valtice expanse, transports one directly into nature, where one can stop off for good wine in any of the numerous wine bars and private cellars in the vicinity. Prominent since the Middle Ages, thanks to the quality of their wine, are the wine communes of Sedlec, Dolní Dunajovice, Pavlov, Perná, Dolní and Horní Věstonice, Novosedly and Brod nad Dyjí. In the limestone soils around Pálava, Ryzlink vlašský ripens to a very high quality varietal wine with an uninterchangeable mineral character and incomparably good structure. This old variety has found its true home in this part of the world. Rulandské bílé and Chardonnay also give excellent quality here. In the loamier soils of the Dunajovice hills the Ryzlink vlašský can be added to Veltlínské zelené as another variety typical of the Mikulov region. Müller-Thurgau thrives in less propitious vineyard positions, as do Neuburské and SSylvánské zelené in Valtice. To the north of Pálava are the villages of Strachotín, Pouzdřany, and Popice, known for Ryzlink rýnský, Tramín červený and Pálava, the last of which was developed at the experimental Vine Research Institute at Perná, as was the variety Aurelius.