A recording of the concerts of the Czech Philharmonic under the baton of Ondřej Vrabec (Planets by G. Holst and Symphony No. 2 by A. Honegger) will be released on SACD by japanese company Octavia Records!!! Ondřej Vrabec gave world premiere performance of the new Double concerto for horn by Peter Seabourne!!! He lead the first tour of the Prague Philharmonia to South Korea in October this year!!!     Don´t miss the oportunity to have the world unique CD of the Brahms Trio Prague in your collection. The CD has gained excelent reviews both in Czech and foreign newspapers (Fanfare - USA, The Horn Call - USA, Mundo Clasico - Spain, Hudební rozhledy and Harmonie - Czech republic)!!!    

5 questions for Ing. Lubomír Skrýval, the enologist of the New Winery Inc.

 

ING. LUBOMÍR SKRÝVAL

born 9. 6. 1957

 

Since 1973 he has been cultivating several acres of vineyard and producing wine in his hometown Rakvice and he still does it with great care today. From 1995 until 2005 he worked successively as an enologist, head of the laboratory and director of production of an important winery company in the South Moravia. Since 1. 7. 2005 he is an enologist of the New Winery Inc. Besides the fact that Mr. Skrýval is a real master in the field of viniculture, he also devotes himself with great enthusiasm to amateur play on bass flugelhorn.

 

 

1) Do you remember your first encounter with the drink of Gods? When it was and what linked your fate with wine?

 

I cannot remember it quite well because I drank the drink of Gods already as a schoolchild. It is said at my place that a little wine can do no harm even to a small child, and this proverb is followed by all my uncles and grandpas, who are glad very much when they see that wine is enjoyed already since youth. My fate was linked with wine (as a job) by a visit of a winery owner in my cellar in January 1995. At that time Ing. Mokruša – a cellarman – was leaving his job and Ing. Michlovský, his employer, offered the job to me. Even though I have no vineculturist education, we arranged it together and my hobby became my job.

 

 

2) What is it that fascinates and attracts you most in wine?

 

The fact that each wine, every year, is different – it is always unique (even though sometimes not very ideal...).

 

 

3) What makes you worry most in today's world of wine?

 

I am quite conservative and so when I see how the patrimony – small vineyards in Moravia – gradually becomes neglected and many large vineyards are in conditions that are nowhere near the ideals, I am sick at heart. The secretly subsidized import of wines into the Czech Republic not only disposes of small viniculturalists but it causes great problems also to medium and big companies and above all to the owners of vineyards. It's a shame, but this is the agricultural politics of the current government – after the liquidation of local cultivators we are going to pay great money for all farming products.

 

 

4) What unique unmistakables features of your wines are you proud of?

 

I am proud of the fact that even with higher sugars the wines can keep the acid and they do not evoke “tiring” impression and that each wine is distinct and different.

 

 

5) You may take with you two bottles of wine to a desert island . One of your production and one of your competitors'. Which do you choose?

 

From the production of the New Winery it would be "Slunečný vrch" – the typical representative of Moravia (Welschriesling + Green Veltliner), from the competitors the young Sauvignon from the vineyard U majáku (former Knížecí) from the village Přítluky – almost all grapes from there are processed by Vinselekt Michlovský.