The two countries are more adapted to the white wine production that red wine, and their potential, since that the wine-growing sector modernizes, is great. They are situated nearly at the same latitude that Alsace in France. Contrary to the other countries of the Eastern Europe, where the viticulture is organized in gigantic wineries, the Czech Republic and the Slovakia possess cellars on a more human scale whose material is regularly controlled by the specialists.
The two country are characterized by a continental climate : Hot and dry during the period of summer, fresh and dry in the autumn. It is generally hotter in Slovakia that in Czech Republic.

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic vineyards are situated in Bohemia and Moravia (Bohemia and Moravia are historicaly beer-producing regions).

Most of vineyards from Bohemia are concentrated around the Elbe and its affluents. Wines are rarely sold outside of the region. Dry, showing a marked acidity, they are often compared to their neighbors in East-German from Saxe. Dominant grape varieties; Müller Thurgau, Riesling of the Rhine, Pinot Blanc and Gewurztraminer, do not give the best results.
In Moravia, the vine grown in valleys of Svratka, Morava and Dyje, three affluents of Danube. One finds there little known grape varieties : in white, Palava, whose style reminds of both Riesling and Gewurztraminer ; in red, Saint-Laurent, easy-drinking, spicy, with beautiful touch of plum. Wines from Archioni, not far from Znojmo, enjoy a good reputation.

         Slovakia

The Slovakian vineyard is equally centered on affluents of Danube : Vah, Hron and Nitra. Vines are planted on hillsides of Tatras or on hilly vicinity properties of Brastislava. Small wine areas produce white wines  based  on Israi  Oliver, Veltliner or Riesling, as well as of light red wines. Towards east, the state cellar of Nitra is the most important producer in Slovakia, but more interesting are bottles produced in the small southern cellars and the West like Gbelce and Hurbanovo, not far  from Komarno and the Hungarian border. The Slovakia cultivates the same grape varieties that the Czech Republic to which it adds the tasty Grüner Veltliner,  Frankovka Rouge, supple and fruity, as well as  local grape varieties Ezerjo and Leanyka. To the oriental extremity of the country, in the Tokajska, grape varieties Furmint, Muscat Ottonel and Harslevelü have the reputation to produce good wines with the same characters that their famous neighbor, Tokay from Hungary.

Due to the fact of the disappearance of the Soviet market, cellars have more than ever necessity to export their production to the West. Unfortunately, public agencies seem to have evolved less rapidly in Slovakia than in Czech Republic.  

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