Krasna Hora is a small family business from southeastern Czechia, an hour's drive from Vienna. The Vybíral family has made wine here since the 1960s, for a long time in a biodynamic way. In recent years they have also started making natural wines. That's not always easy in this relatively cool area, which lies at the same latitude as Burgundy and Alsace. Their 'cool climate' wines are characterized by finesse and purity - low in alcohol and very refined. Krasna Hora is very successful, even supplying the house wines for Yotam Ottolenghi's restaurant in London.
Krasna Hora means 'beautiful hills'. Those hills lie around the village of Starý Podvorov, in the Czech 'wine province' of Moravia. Cistercian monks already made wine here in the thirteenth century, mainly from French grape varieties. It's a 'cool climate' terroir, with a much more continental climate than Burgundy and Alsace, which lie at the same latitude - colder winters and warmer summers, and also a bigger difference between day and night temperatures. No wonder Krasna Hora's wines usually have between 11.5% and 12.5% alcohol and a refined style.
In Krasna Hora's vineyards you still find them today: Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay and Merlot. The grandfather of the current 'pater familias' Marek Vybíral planted the first vineyards in the early 1960s - a small vineyard mainly for personal consumption. In 2005 the family expanded it to five hectares, and today they manage 8.5 hectares of vineyard, from which they now press around 60,000 bottles a year - just enough for the family to get by, provided everyone helps out. Marek Vybíral is the current owner, and his innovative young nephew Ondřej Dubas makes the wines.
Since the start, the Vybíral family has farmed biodynamically. They use no herbicides or pesticides. The wines ferment on wild yeasts, and they add no or as little sulfite as possible. Krasna Hora's top wines are fermented and aged in small oak barriques. They aren't filtered or fined - so they are 'natural wines' or 'naturally made wines'. The family has now also released a more affordable, 'trendy' line with a white, orange, rosé and red natural wine, aimed at the growing number of wine bars that like to work with natural wines, in Czechia too. We currently have nine wines from Krasna Hora in our range. You can view all our wines from Krasna Hora here.
If you want to know more about this winery, here you will find the link to the website of Krasna Hora.
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