Velké Bílovice is the biggest vinicultural village in the Czech Republic and it also has the most vintners.

In the land register there are 710 hectares of vineyards these days which are cultivated by 1056 vintners. Already before the 30-years-war there were about 600 hectares of vineyards in Velké Bílovice. Nowadays the vineyards are being changed into new modern ones and they create a new history. The vineyards reach from one end of the land register to another end and they are surrounded by a picturesque wine cellars. It is proved that the viniculture is in the local people´s blood and the relationship to the vine is inherited from generation to generation.

Velké Bílovice is famous not only for the biggest area of vineyards but also for notoriously known event of opened wine cellars called From wine cellar to another wine cellar, which is visited by 4.5 thousand of visitors.

This makes this event the biggest wine degustation in open wine cellars in Moravia. Visitors walk there through the biggest area of wine cellars in the Czech Republic. Altogether 650 wine cellars are placed in areas with interesting old names of wine cellar streets, for example Portugalová, Belegradksá, Habánská, Prezidentská street. Vintners in Velké Bílovice produce altogether more than 7 million litres of great wines. Velké Bílovice thus produce a 0.75 litre bottle of wine for every citizen of the Czech Republic.

Author: Michal Tetur

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