Vinařství Zapletal in Velké Bílovice, South Moravia, can host a seminar, a team day or a private dinner for up to 30 guests in its wine cellar, with a pension and an apartment for overnight stays on the same site. Guided tastings start at 8 people, and the longest format runs for up to 25 guests over as much as five hours.
Seminars and company events
The winery lists corporate training, presentations and team-building among the groups it receives, alongside private gatherings and celebrations. The cellar is the working space: guests sit in the cellar, taste the winery's own wines and, if the organizer wishes, add a cold or warm dinner. A cimbalom band, a traditional Moravian folk ensemble, can be arranged for the evening.
The winery also sells gift and corporate wines, which suits an organizer who wants a bottle for each participant or client after the event.
Rooms and capacities
The venue has one event room, the wine cellar, which holds up to 30 people according to the tasting page. The home page states 35, so confirm the figure for your date. The layout is not described online.
Three guided tasting menus are offered, each with bread and water:
- Menu I: 10 samples, minimum 8 people, up to 2 hours.
- Menu II: 10 samples with cheese, bread and pork cracklings, minimum 10 people, up to 2 hours.
- Menu III: 12 samples with cold platters, minimum 10 and maximum 25 people, up to 5 hours, with free drinking of selected wines up to one bottle per person.
Warm food is arranged separately and is not part of the menus.
Accommodation
Two options are on site, both open from April to the end of October.
The pension sleeps 17 people, with extra beds possible. It has seven double rooms and one triple room, each with its own bathroom and a small fridge. A common room with a TV and an equipped kitchen is shared by guests.
The apartment sleeps 10 including extra beds and is rented as a whole. It has a living room with a fireplace stove and TV, a four-bed bedroom, a three-bed bedroom and a small room for two extra beds.
Parking is available at the building. Cellar and lodging share the same address, so a group can stay where it works.
History and setting
Vinařství Zapletal was founded in 1994 by Václav Zapletal and continues a family tradition that goes back to the early 19th century. A grape press from 1818, still owned by the family, stands in the cellar. His son Jan joined the business in 2005 after studying at the winery school in Valtice and at Mendel University in Brno.
The winery farms about 20 hectares of vineyards in the Velké Bílovice municipality, in the Velkopavlovická wine subregion, one of the warmest parts of the Czech Republic. It follows integrated production, which limits chemical products in the vineyard, and makes still, lightly sparkling and oak-aged wines.
Getting there
The cellar and the accommodation are at Pod Předními 334, 691 02 Velké Bílovice, in the Sklepy cellar quarter. Wine sales and shipping are handled at a different address, Vinařská 602, so use the cellar address for an event. Tasting and accommodation requests go to Ludmila Zapletalová. The winery sells wedding wines but does not describe wedding venue hire.
