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On 8th April 2025 we celebrated our third joint Federal Walrus. Fruitiness, florality, beautiful fullness and characteristic minerality, simply our Dunajovské Hills in a bottle.

We have for you the results of the first round of this year's Prague Wine Trophy. We take away six medals, and not just any medals. Three are the highest possible Prague Premium Gold and three are Prague Gold.

Easter is coming and this year we decided to open a winery for you before the Easter holidays. Come visit us on Saturday, April 19, 2025 from 4 pm to 10 pm, we look forward to seeing you!

We are very pleased that this year we have won medals for our wines and the title of Best Winery 2024 at the renowned and traditional competition with international participation for the fourth time in a row.

The popular, young, fresh, dry, semi-dry and long sold out semi-sweet wines from the new 2024 vintage from the vineyards of our Balaz winery are now on sale.

Wine Point Plzeň was looking for the best among 47 Rieslings at an open tasting. And we are proud that the winner was our Riesling, Cabinet, vintage 2023 from the Klasik series.

February is here, and with it, Valentine's Day. We think about you all year round, but this year for the first time we decided to prepare a Valentine's Day package. We've teamed up with Bake Together.

This year, the first bottling of the 2024 vintage took place at our winery in January. The wines need some more time on the bottle and we will present them at the end of February.

On behalf of our entire winery, we wish you a pleasant Christmas holiday full of Christmas comfort, relaxation and health. We look forward to meeting you with a glass of our wine in the new year 2025.

Wine aged in a granite vessel has specific characteristics that are the result of the wine's interaction with the rock, but also with the conditions of the environment in which it is aged.

We would like to inform you in advance about the opening hours of the winery during the Christmas holidays 2024 and also about the timing of your online purchases so that you can make sure you have everything in time for Christmas.

If the winemaker chooses to age the wine in barrel, you will often find this out too, and you can always taste it. But do you know what the story of the barrel looks like at the winery?

November is here and gift tips will be lurking everywhere. This year we decided to prepare tasting boxes and offer you the opportunity to get 6 of our wines straight in a gift box with a wine gift.

The first wine of this year's vintage. The ancient tradition of vin de l'année, or wine of the vintage, continues. This year we have complied with the wishes of our customers and once again there is Müllerka.

We would like to introduce you to a category of our wines that we are proud of and wines from this category are ideal gifts for your friends and corporate clients. Award-winning wines!

With the summer holidays, our adjusted opening hours have ended. From September we are open again on weekdays from 8 am to 3 pm. We will be happy to accommodate you outside these hours by prior arrangement.

The story of the new sect begins. We are currently harvesting Chardonnay and Ruland Blanc for sparkling wine. In 2020, we have decided to venture into traditional sparkling wines as a new line of our winery.

The heat is good for the grapes and they are ripening. The vintage at the Baláž Winery is approaching. Today we checked the ripeness of the grapes in the vineyard, which is measured in degrees of sugar content of the CNM.

This year we also participated in the King of Wines 2024 competition. We are proud that the collection of medals that our winery has won is truly royal.

During the summer months, we are in the winery every day from Monday to Saturday and on Sundays, the purchase of wine is possible by prior telephone agreement.

The Průhonice Wine Trail will take place this weekend in Průhonice Park. We will take part in the event together with our friendly winemakers from the Dunajovské hills association.

We would love to welcome you to our winery and we hope that, especially in the summer months, you will find the time to come and visit us in Dolní Dunajovice. We are also not lazy and we are coming to you.

Wines aged in concrete barrels are already an established novelty on our wine market. We have been offering them for several years and they are very popular with you.

We are currently going to the Prima Fresh Festival in Pilsen, which will take place in the park behind the OC Plzeň Plaza on 18-19 May. Come and taste our wines.

The personal assurance of Jiří Baláž Sr. that this year's wine will definitely be there. At the same time, thanks to all those who have shown interest and concern for our situation.

For Easter we are putting on sale the first wines of the 23rd vintage. Starting with early varieties, these are also your favourite white wines and will be among the first to sell out.

Today we bottled the first new wines of the 2023 vintage. It was cold, a couple of degrees above zero, but you can see in the photos that we were happy to get everything done and celebrate!

PRAGUE WINE TROPHY is an international wine competition for wines from wine regions around the world. In terms of the number of samples evaluated, it is the largest international wine competition in the Czech Republic.

Books and wine have a lot in common and we believe that they can make you happy and stop time in its tracks for a while. That is why we have become a partner of the competition.

The appeal is a call for us winemakers to negotiate such conditions for doing business so that we can continue to work honestly and hard, not be burdened with paperwork, and have the same conditions as other winemakers in Europe.

Whether you choose our classic Franka or Merlot and Ruland Blue in any of our lines, we are pleased to offer you red wines made from quality, mature grapes.

Tramínovice or our "Danube grappa". Why did we decide to produce it? Our wine travels often take us abroad. So why not try grappa when we have the raw materials for it?

At the beginning of 2024, we will release the Tannowitz red wine series. For this range, we produce wines only in the best vintages, from the best grapes.

It is the dream of every winemaker that his work and time, which he spends all year round in that beautiful, original product - a bottle of wine, can then end up on the table as a companion to a good meal.

On 23 November 2023, the Internet Effectiveness Awards 23 online project competition was held in Prague and our winery was a proud partner of the event.

The grape harvest marks the end of our hard, year-long work in the vineyard and the beginning of new work in the cellar. So for us, the harvest is actually the end and the beginning at the same time.

The story of Dunajovský Vlašák or if you want original local wine from the Baláž Winery. Dunajovský Vlašák is the story of a wine that has a clear origin and yet crosses the borders of individual wineries.

In the international wine competition, the Prague Wine Trophy, we won an award for our wines. Four Premium Gold medals and four Gold medals. The winery was awarded the title of The Best Winery.

Our first beautifully adjusted vintage sparkling wine, Cuvée Chardonnay & Pinot Blanc, extra brut 2020. We will only produce it in selected vintages that allow us to obtain the highest quality raw material.