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1/2/2008 - Our firm has moved
to Suchdolská 85/14, Prague 6.
New phone numbers are: phone +420 220 511 383, fax +420 220 511 395.
Jansis Robinson and brazilian wines
World famous wine critique Jansis Robinson and Julia Harding, the editress of "Atlas Mundial do Vinho" tasted brazilian wines in London. They used system of 20 points scale for their wein valuation.The most succesful wine became Talento2004 made by winery Salton with18 points. Other wineswhic you know from our offer were valuated as follows:
Miolo Quinta do Seival Castas Portuguesas 2004, Campanha - 16+
Salton Merlot Desejo 2004 Serra Gaucha - 17
Miolo Merlot Terroir 2004 Vale dos Vinhedos - 17
Miolo Quinta do Seival Cabernet Sauvignon 2004, Campanha - 17-
Miolo Espumante - 15
Salton Talento 2002 Tuiuty - Bento Gonzalves - 17+
Salton Talento 2004 Tuiuty- Bento Gonzalves - 18
15 - 17/7/2007 - 7 medals for Brazil from USA
The brazilian wines noticed big succes in north America at"San Francisco Wine Competition" which held between 15-17/July2007 in Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, California. There were more than 1000 wine samples from 21 contries. Brazil succeed with seven wines and obtained one silver and six bronze medals. Some of awarderd wines you can find in our offer Espumante Milolo Millesime Brut 2004, Salton Merlot Volpi 2004, Espumante Salton Brut Reserva Ouro and Espumante Salton Moscatel.
10 - 12/7/2007 - Silver triumf of winery Miolo in Chile
The triumf noted excelent Miolo Merlot Terroir 2004 at prestigeous wine competition "Vinalies América Latina" held in Santiago, Chile between 10-12.july 2007. Miolo Merlot Terroir was awarded by silver medal between another 280 samples from whole the world.
Brazil is the 2nd biggest wine consumer in Latine America.
5 - 7/7/2007 - VinoForum 2007
We have noticed another succes of brazilian wines on VinoForum 2007 competition held in Pardubice, Czech Repuvlic. There were 659 samples from 22 contries. Some of our wines has been awarder. We are very happy with following results:
Salton Merlot Volpi 2004 - gold medal
Miolo Cevee Giuseppe 2003 - silver medal
Miolo Quinta do Seival Cabernet Sauvignon - silver medal
Salton Cabernet Sauvignon Volpi 2005 - stříbrná medale
29/4 - 1/5/2007 - Sparkling wine from Salton awarded in Maastricht
Winery Salton sent one of their sparkling wines
Salton Espumante Brut Reserva Ouro to fight with another more than 5.700 wines on the international competition "Concours Mondial de Bruxelles" held in dutch Maastrich between april.29 - 1st may. 220 proffesional sommeliers and journalists awarded this excellent sparkling wine a golden medal.
Miolo wines in guide of 1000 wines from the world
We would like to inform you that two wines
Cabernet Sauvignon Campanha Quinta do Seival and excellent
Cuveé Giuseppe, both made by winery Miolo, represent Brazil in specialized publication "Vinalies Internationales, 1.000 vins du monde 2007" - special wine guide for 1000 wines from the whole world from Hachette.
2 - 6/3/2007 - Salton Merlot Volpi 2004 got another awards in France and Spain
We are proud to inform you that
Merlot Volpi (vintage 2004) from winery Salton obtained golden medal on the international competition Concurso Vins du Monde in Paris which was held between 02-06/march/2007 and another silver medal on the competition Concurso Premio Zarcillo 2007 held in spanish Valladolid among 2.159 samples from 17 coutries of the world.
July 2006 - Salton Merlot Volpi 2003 takes Silver in Hungary
Very nice Silver medal got
Salton Merlot Volpi 2003 in Hungary first week of June in city Eger on Intl.OIV wine competiton VinAgora!
February 2006 - Miolo takes Gold in France
Vinícola Miolo has just received its biggest acknowledgement in France.
After exporting its products to the most demanding country in the world regarding vitiviniculture, it was awarded with gold and silver medals in the Vinalies Internationales.
The championship is considered by specialists one of the toughest in the world, it happened in February this year and it received 2227 samples from 35 countries, they were evaluated by 123 tasters.
In the market since 2004, both wines were elaborated along with the French consutant Michel Rolland and integrate the grand reserve wines of Miolo.
2005 is the year of best-ever harvest in Brazil!
On 24 September 2005, the 13th year of AVALIACAO NACIONAL DE VINHOS of the best-ever 2005 harvest took place in Bento Gonçalves, in attendance of prominent personalities from the world of wine. This time even a representative of the Czech Republic Dr. Luboš Bárta, the managing editor of the Sommelier Revue of the Hotel a Restaurant professional magazine, and the president of a board of evaluators of the international competition Víno & Destiláty Praha, was present.
Experts agree that 2005 is the year of best-ever harvest in Brazil and according to Luboš Bárta, Merlot from the Miolo winery will be one of the best wines of this year's harvest.
The Miolo, Salton and Casa Valduga wineries, represented by our company, were awarded the first prize. There is something to look forward to!
368 wines took part in the competition, of which there were 105 white ones (28.5%) and 263 red ones (71.55%), 106x Cabernet Sauvignon and 62x Merlot, excellent Touriga National, Ancellotta, Tannat - 22 varieties altogether. The evaluation was conducted within three weeks by 75 oenologists divided into three groups. Samples were taken directly in operation, they were uniformly analysed in laboratories and evaluated sensorially.
Seven white and eight red wines qualified for the grand final and were awarded the first prize - an international board of evaluators evaluated for almost 1,000 attendees. 111 wines produced by 41 wineries were awarded a medal (30% of the best-rated wines).
Among the most awarded wines were also:
Moscato, da Fazenda Ouro Verde, projeto Terranova (Vale do Sao Francisco) in partnership with Vinícola Lovara
Merlot, da Vinícola Miolo Ltda (Vale dos Vinhedos)
Merlot, da Vinícola Lovara (Serra Gaúcha)
Touriga Nacional, do Fortaleza do Seival Vineyards (Campanha)
Cabernet Sauvignon, Salton
Vinoforum 2005 has brought us four medals for Brazilian wines.
528 wine samples from 22 countries were present at Vinoforum 2005 (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Spain, Hungary, Germany, Chile, Macedonia, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South African Republic, Holland, Uruguay, USA, France). The majority of the samples came from the Czech Republic (241) and Slovakia (73).
The international evaluation committee (from 10 countries of the world - Austria, Brazil, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Spain, Hungary, Germany, Macedonia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Holland) consisted of six subcommittees with five members in each.
Category I - still white dry wines (0-4g/l of residual sugar) - Sauvignon 2004 from Znovín Znojmo, a.s., located in Šatov, the Czech Republic, and Sauvignon 2004 from Stafford Lodge, New Zealand shared the first prize.
Category II - still white wines - others (4.1g/l of residual sugar and more) - the winner was Pálava 2002 Selection of Grapes from Vinselekt Michlovský, a.s. Rakvice, the Czech Republic.
Category III - still rosé wines - there was no winner chosen.
Category IV - still red wines - the winner was Merlot 2003 barrique from Pascual Toso, Mendosa, Argentina.
Category V - sparkling wines - the winner was Espumante Armando Peterlongo Brut from Bebidas da Serra Ltda., Garibaldi, Brazil.
Category VI - fortified wines and liqueur wines - no winner was chosen
Brazilian wines won four medals:
| Sample no. | Category | Subcommittee | Ref. sign | Name of wine | Producer / Submitter | Year | Note | Points | Prize | Batch no. | Origin | Auxiliary no. |
| 51 | 1 | K | a | Reserva Miolo Chardonnay | Vinícola Miolo Ltda, Bento Gonçalves-RS | 2004 | | 87,33 | Silver Medal | L:06 04 5 | Brasil | 13 |
| 284 | 4 | D | g | Salton Volpi Cabernet Sauvignon | Vinhos Salton S/A Indústria e Comércio, Bento Gonçalves | 2004 | | 86,33 | Silver Medal | 105/2005 | Brasil | 314 |
| 266 | 4 | D | g | Familia Piagentini Boutique Reserva Pinotage | Vinhos Piagentini S/A, Bairro Pio X Caxias do Sul-RS | 2004 | | 86,00 | Silver Medal | x | Brasil | 317 |
| 443 | 5 | F | i | Espumante Armando Peterlongo Brut | Bebidas da Serra Ltda.,Garibaldi - RS | | | 85,67 | "category winner" | x | Brasil | 485 |
10/6/2005 E-shop of the month (June)
Our e-shop with Brazilian wines was recognized as E-shop of the month June by ZONER software company, which produces solutions for e-commerce.
You can learn more in
the article 
published by E-komerce.cz server upon this occasion.
13/5/2005 New Cuvée Giuseppe from the Miolo winery
New
Cuvée Giuseppe from
Miolo has been produced as a tribute to Mr. Giuseppe Miolo, the founder of the winery. This excellent blend of CABERNET SAUVIGNON / MERLOT is produced from grapes grown on the best pieces of land of Miolo vineyards.
12/5/2005 - Three medals for Brazilian wines at Cuvée Ostrava 2005
Cuvée Ostrava is a competition of wines that are produced by mixing two or more varieties. It is held under the auspices of the K.A.H.A.N. Club (Amateur Evaluators of Alcoholic Beverages) and it is officially recognised by the European Union.
In this year's panel of the professional wine evaluators there were among others:
prof. Fedor Malík
JUDr. Luboš Bárta
Helena Baker
Libor Nazarčuk
Ing. Roman Svatoň
Dr. Martin Křístek
28/4/2005 E-shop now online
Visit our
e-shop, in which you can choose from the range of quality wines produced by the
Casa Valduga,
Salton and
Miolo wineries. The wines are sent carefully packed and protected from damage, through the DHL shipping company. We offer discounts (divided into three categories) to regular customers or customers placing bigger orders.
The new
Gamay 2005 from the
Miolo winery debuts in Europe - in the Czech Republic! This new product is being expected impatiently as 2005 has seen the best harvest in the history of Brazilian winegrowing.
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