Moravia, my home, has the perfect conditions for making light-bodied, fun reds with good acidity. This unpretentious "rural realness" used to be the traditional style here, and I’ve been drinking and loving wines like this since I was a kid. Obviously, our region also had to go through the craze of new oak barrels, de-acidifiers, tannins and all the other BS covering the sense of place in our wines, when the Czech Republic opened its borders after 1989. But I wanted to put the normal, juicy Moravian red, based on our signature Blaufrankisch grape, back in the spotlight. So voila Nach, named after its colour (= purple in Czech).
The 2024 vintage brings new look. This time, the change is not coming from me, the eternal tweaker, but from a bottle shortage: the production of the previously used “plumpie” was discontinued so we had no option but to find another pretty liter bottles (no small feat, btw). Together with our long-term designer collaborator Klára Zápotocká we then also created a new future for the label – a minimalist black and white affair that emphasises the wines’ signature simplicity, purity and everyday vibe.
We kept the liter volume, of course, as it's an important part of Moravian wine heritage. Or you can call it “minimagnum”, like my Montréal friends.
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