Along the Moravian Wine Trail through Velkopavlovicko region – through the region of Blue hills

Route tracking:

Pouzdřany – Popice – Hustopeče – Velké Pavlovice – Němčičky – Bořetice – Kobylí – Klobouky – Krumvíř - Čejč

Characteristics:

The Moravian Wine Trail runs along tertiary roads, cycle paths, and quiet roads through the inspiring country of “Blue hills” as well as woodless country without a shade. You will enjoy short uphills and long-distance views at the edge of the Ždánický les, beauty of traditional architecture, silence and harmony of neat villages, as well as relaxing ride among fields and vineyards.

Route parameters:

Route difficulty: Turista
Length: 64,7 km
Choosing the right bicycle: Krosové
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Description:

The entering point to Velkopavlovické wine region is Pouzdřany, wine growing village well-known for its straw wines. Its village square boasts a Gothic parish church of St. Nicolas and a Renaissance house from the beginning of the 16th century. The trail from Pouzdřany to Popice offers beautiful views of National Nature Reserve – Pouzdřany steppe. At the village office in Popice the trail turns off to the countryside and climbs Žebrák hill through vineyards along a newly marked path. Before you reach the spot of distant views, stop to visit Sonberk winery and try a glass of their wine. The elegant winery headquarters in the middle of vineyards is an example of modern wine architecture, unique technology, and outstanding white wines. From the winery terrace you can enjoy a magnificent view of Nové Mlýny Lake and the dominant Pavlov hills resembling Antonín Vojtek paintings.       


After sharing a path with the blue marked Velkpavlovická Wine Trail for a while, you descend to the town of Hustopeče and enter a wine region characterised by higher number and better quality of red wines. This medieval centre of Moravian wine making boasts several valuable historical sights and busy wine tourism. In its centre there is a Permanent Wine Exhibition in a Renaissance house U Synků, where you can learn everything about wine growing and wine making. If you decide to stay and try some wines, you can choose from forty wines of small local wine-makers as well as bigger wineries of this sub-region. Wine tasting controlled by Mr Sedláček, the exhibition administrator, is an outstanding wine-tasting as well as a social experience. The building U Synků also houses a town information centre, a museum, and a gallery. The trail runs through a motorway underpass above Hustopeče along the motorway to the village of Starovičky. From the centre of the village take a local road to another motorway underpass to the left side of the motorway, through vineyards with a short turn off to a view tower U Obrázku and then to the town of Velké Pavlovice.     


In the heart of the sub-region the trail enters a folklore region of Hanácké Slovácko, the first ethnologically formulated region from the beginning of the Moravian Wine Trail. The inhabitants pay respect to their ancestors’ heritage through keeping traditions and habits expressed by ceremonial costumes used for important festivals such as village feast, wine harvest festival, and Corpus Christi. Velkopavlovicko region is a region of exceptional and hospitable winemakers. If you want to meet pleasant and friendly people, visit hundred-years-old wine cellars and pressing shops, and try the best red wines in Moravia, stay a night in the town. An evening walk will make you relax after your trip and give you an opportunity to learn about the golden cross of wine making in Velké Pavlovice.   

From Velké Pavlovice the trail runs in a rolling country through villages of Horní Bojanovice and Němčičky to Bořetice. What is waiting here for cyclists is a wine culture joke – Svobodná spolková republika Kraví hora (Bořetice Free Federal Republic of Kraví hora) at the bank of a small river the Trnkmanka. Not only it is a picturesque wine making village, but also an independent republic with its own constitution, government, president and a currency called “kravihorec”. The view from the Kravihora Ministry of “Finance, post, gossips, and communications diverse” shows where the Moravian Wine Trail runs further – climbs on the road to the village of Vrbice. Once a guarding settlement it is an advanced wine making village today; wine cellars called Stráž built in seven stories above each other in the rock contain wines of exceptional quality. Then the trail descends among vineyards to the village of Kobylí and then along the road through villages of Brumovice and Morkůvky to the town of Klobouky. At the summit, right before the entrance to the town, you may turn to a reconstructed wind mill, which is located at the place of the last of Klobouky wind mills as a reminiscence of times when there were a number of wind mills in operation on the southern slope of Klobouky.

 

The final part of the trail to the village of Krumvíř is flavoured by a view of a Nature Reserve Louky pod Kumstátem (Meadows under Kumstát) and by a small local wine cellar colony. From Krumvíř the Moravian Wine Trail runs towards Slovácko region on a short fast road segment. The village of Terezín is the gateway to the largest wine making sub-region – Slovácko, whose wine planted hillsides stretch as far as to the feet of the White Carpathians and the Chřiby hills. The train connection to larger towns is provided from a nearby well-known wine making village of Čejč.     

 

Recommended visits: 
Pouzdřany: Gothic church of St. Nicolas, Renaissance house, Nature Reserve Pouzdřany steppe

Popice: Sonberk winery
Hustopeče: Permanent Wine Exhibition, museum and gallery
Starovičky: view tower U Obrázku
Velké Pavlovice: wine cellars and pressing shops
Bořetice: wine cellar colony Kraví hora
Vrbice: wine cellar colony Na Stráži
Kobylí: wine exhibition in the local museum
Klobouky: wind mill, Town museum

Krumvíř: louky pod Kumstátem (meadows under Kumstát)