This year's season in Czech wineries is unusual, but winemakers haven't yet decided what the 2026 vintage will be like. "It was an exceptional year. Drought and hailstorms," Jirzi Mach from Mikulov told PAP during the weekend grape harvest at one of the oldest wineries in Prague.
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This year's wine-growing season is developing differently than last year's. The heat and lack of precipitation accelerated the ripening of grapes and in many vineyards also postponed the start of the harvest. The first processed varieties show that the 2026 vintage will not be able to be evaluated solely by the quantity of the harvest. For consumers...
This year's season in Czech wineries is unusual, but winemakers haven't yet decided what the 2026 vintage will be like. "It was an exceptional year. Drought and hailstorms," Jirzi Mach from Mikulov told PAP during the weekend grape harvest at one of the oldest wineries in Prague.