CHÂTEAU VALTICE is a family-run winery with cellars dating to 1430 and 1640, and is the largest grape grower in the Czech Republic, based in the town of Valtice. Its wines are sold through the winery's own e-shop and poured at its Wine Barn vinotheque and historic cellar tastings in town.
Best for Cellar tours, tastings and Czech wines from Valtice
Based in the glassmaking town of Novy Bor, Crystalex is the Czech Republic's largest producer of drinking glass, exporting up to 95 percent of its output abroad. Its online e-shop sells the full range, from painted wine glasses to whiskey tumblers, and the brand also runs a flagship store in Prague.
Veltlin is an independent Karlín wine bar and merchant specializing in natural wines from the former Austro-Hungarian region. Its producer focus makes it especially useful for exploring Central European bottles that can be difficult to compare elsewhere.
Best for Natural wines from the former Austro-Hungarian region, poured in Karlín
Vinařství Hraniční Zámeček grows and bottles Moravian varietals - Veltlínské zelené, Rulandské šedé, Cabernet Sauvignon and Tramín červený - from vineyards around Lednice, in the wine region ringing the town's UNESCO-listed chateau grounds. The winery runs its own tasting room and supplies restaurants across the area.
Best for Moravian white and red wines from around Lednice chateau
A Mikulov winery making wine since 2007, with honours from Decanter through to the Berliner Wein Trophy, including a 2023 grand gold recorded by the Czech National Wine Centre. Sold through the e-shop and at the winery's own sales point, which also hosts tastings.
Vinograf combines a wine bar with bottle retail focused on Czech, Moravian and low-intervention producers. By-the-glass pours and cheese plates let visitors taste before choosing bottles to take away.
Winery Obelisk grows its grapes on the loess slopes of the Hintertal vineyard just outside Valtice and ages some of its wine in hand-fired kvevri amphoras, following what owner František Fabičovic calls postmodern winemaking. Visitors can taste and buy the estate's wines in the winery's glazed tasting and presentation hall above the underground cellar.
Best for Kvevri-amphora-aged wines from the Hintertal vineyard's loess slopes