Czech ambassadors

Mikulovska

Julia and Jancis sample a small but diverse selection of wines from Czechia, tasted in London. Above, the Mikulovská wine region, courtesy of Jan Halady.

Julia writes Earlier this year, the Czech Embassy in London hosted a small tasting of Czech wines, presented by Czechia’s first ever ‘national sommelier’ and wine ambassador Klára Kollárová, who also happens to be the contributor for Czechia in the latest edition of The Oxford Companion to Wine.

The names of the wine regions that appear on the labels are not easy for those of us who do not speak Czech but the map...