Wines from 22 of the best winemakers from Slovakia were presented at the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux, France. According to Mária Jurovčíková from the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the presentations at the Cité du Vin were led by Association of Winegrowers and Winemakers of Slovakia (ZVVS) member, Frenchman David Papillon, who has been living and producing wine in Slovakia for many years.
Jurovčíková specified that the ZVVS signed a three-year contract in autumn 2024 with the Foundation for the Culture and Civilization of Wine and the largest wine and wine making museum in the world, the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux. This will allow it to present Slovak wines and wine regions in the most famous and most important wine region in the world from 2025 to 2027.
The first year, wines from 22 Slovak winemakers were selected. Together they sent 528 bottles of wine to Bordeaux. This is the first direct partnership between ZVVS and Cité du Vin, with the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Paris acting as an intermediary at the beginning of the cooperation and intensively assisting in the implementation of the cooperation throughout the preparation. In 2016 and 2017, the presentation was organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic.
According to Jurovčíková, out of approximately 400,000 visitors who visit Cité du Vin each year, up to 53% are an international community of 180 nationalities. “It is an important step for us to enter the global wine map at Cité du Vin so that people from all over the world know that Slovakia is a wine-growing and wine-making country with a rich history and beautiful wines,” said Jaroslava Kaňuchová Pátková, executive director of ZVVS.
Source: TASR
