Abstract
Bohemia is one of the northernmost wine regions. The first vines planted in Bohemia Celtic fight in the 7th century and drinking wine in the Czech Republic dates back to the 6th century BC.
The Germans also drank alcoholic beverages, but usually made from grain. Slavs drank mead, ferment, kumys and beer.
In 892 he sent Svatopluk at birth Spytihnev's Bořivoj a barrel of wine and their grandson Vaclav began vinařit. The expansion of viticulture in Bohemia then significantly contributed Charles IV. that issued a regulation contributing to the expansion of viticulture in Prague, Melnik and other Czech cities.
In ten years it was made in Bohemia so much wine that Charles IV. banned wine imports from abroad. Growing grapes and producing wine was entrusted to the monks, mainly in the Czech Republic to the Cistercians and Premonstratensians.
Were published wine laws and introduced features perkmistr. The most important wine-growing regions was in Prague with 700 hectares of vineyards producing over 60,000 hectoliters of wine a year, Litomerice further 400 hectares of vineyards and Melnik.
Development of viticulture in Bohemia crippled the first Hussite wars and later the Battle of White Mountain and the Thirty Years War.