Ivo Blahuš
Pod Vinohrady 285, Sady
Ivo keeps it simple: wine should bring joy, and everyone finds something they like. Drop by his lovely little cellar with its easy seating and taste what he's coaxed out of this year's young wines.
We are Vinaři SADY, z.s.
A registered association of winemakers from Sady. We keep the winemaking tradition of Sady and the villages around it alive, and bring the micro-winemakers from here together with the people who come to visit.
We show the craft, the traditions and the people behind our wine. We want what these winemakers know to be passed on, and wine made at home here to stay a living thing rather than a memory.
We have held the spring open cellars since 2017. Every year we open our cellars and gardens in Sady, and spend the day talking with 150 to 300 visitors in the very places where we work with the wine: our own homes.
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Our winemakers
The Magnificent Sevenfrom Uherské Hradiště
Each of us makes wine their own way. Some barely intervene, some raise their wine with a firm hand, some let it live a life of its own. Stop by for a glass.
Pavel Sedlář
Solná cesta 265, Sady
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Pavel is a modest perfectionist. You won't find a single dried drip in his cellar, and the same care comes through in his off-dry and semi-sweet wines. At the open cellars the whole family pours for you. There is a lovely pool in the garden, and rumour has it guests have been offered a dip. How much of that is true, we couldn't say.
Alois Zatloukal
Železniční 235, Sady
Alois is headstrong and stubborn, and with wine that means he does everything his own way. He keeps to the old country method, barely intervenes, and lets the wine live its own life as long as possible, with no added sulphur. The result is honest wine that pretends to be nothing it isn't. Guests love sitting in Alois's garden, with a huge cherry tree in the middle.
Ondřej Balíček
Vřesová 74, Sady
Ondra stands out because he makes low-intervention wine even without a cellar. Just ask him, he is happy to tell the story and show you around. In the vineyard he happily leaves the grapes hanging until the first snow, so among the specialities you will find selection, ice and straw wines. He ferments on wild yeasts and lets the wines age on the lees for a full year if need be.
Bečica & Juračka
Solná cesta 77, Sady
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Tomáš and Mirek. They made their first wine in 2000, just the two of them in a single demijohn, with no family tradition behind them. After more than twenty years they pride themselves on clean wines with no technical faults. With the reds they go uncompromisingly for malolactic fermentation and barrel ageing, because 'a red deserves a barrel'.
Hron & spol.
Na Kopci 42, Sady
The Hron brothers make wine in the oldest and also the largest of the open cellars. They shine with the reds, and watch out, don't slip and say 'Rulanda', here they pour only 'Burgunda' or 'Pinot'! Above the cellar there's a wonderful spot in the garden among the vines, perfect for a picnic.
Vinařství Medek
Na Kopci 68, Sady
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Josef fell in love with winemaking, and with Jarmila. The trouble was, a single glass of ordinary wine would leave her with a headache for a week, so he started making his wines unfiltered, alive and nearly sulphur-free. Today it works like this: Josef tends his wines and barrel-aged specials in the cellar, and Jarmila runs the winery and its legendary home cooking. Son-in-law Jaromír, mad about flavours, aromas and pairing wine with food, loves teaching anyone with an interest in wine, in English too. At Vinařství Medek they reckon you should feel good not just with the wine, but the day after.
Derfla events
Our big threeWe put on a handful of events a year. The sort we would gladly come to ourselves.
Saturday 21 November 2026, from 1 pm
Derfla young wines
An autumn neighbourhood gathering over young wine straight from the cellar, at various stages of fermentation.
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Saturday 22 May 2027, 14:00 to 20:00
Derfla open cellars
A spring walk through cellars and gardens, with the winemakers right there. Note: bring a picnic.
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That was 2026, back on the second Friday in September
Derfla wine tent
The Slovácké slavnosti vína fill Uherské Hradiště. Our tent stands on Masarykovo náměstí, free entry, with wines from Sady and the wider Slovácko.
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Why 'Derfla' and not 'Sady'?
Sady was once a village of its own. Historical records show it under the German name Derfle, which has survived in everyday local use to this day. In 1952 it was renamed Sady, after a local tract, a word that in Czech means ‘orchards’ and suits a place of gardens.
We bent the old name into our own dialect, so we call Sady simply Derfla. This is where the Derfla winemakers, the Derfla open cellars and the Derfla young wines come from.
A small tip for the road: a modern map shrugs at “Derfla”, and plain “Sady” might send you to the wrong place, so search “Sady, Uherské Hradiště”. On paper we belong to the town, at heart a village, and Derfla to ourselves.
Common questions
Before you come- What events do you run, and where?
- Three a year, all in and around Sady. The Derfla open cellars in spring and the young wines in autumn, both right in Sady, a district of Uherské Hradiště (in maps, search for Sady, Uherské Hradiště). The wine tent stands in September at the Moravian Slovakia Festival of Wine and Open Monuments in the city centre, on Masarykovo náměstí. Details, prices and times are on each event.
- Will I get by in English or German?
- Our main events run mostly in Czech, but a glass needs no translation. You will get by in English at a few of the cellars, most reliably at Vinařství Medek, our easy stop for guests from abroad. And do not worry: the more we taste together, the better we understand each other.
- How do I get there?
- Sady is a short hop from the centre of Uherské Hradiště, reachable by car, bike or bus. In town you can also grab a Nextbike shared bike, the first 15 minutes free, which is plenty to reach us from the centre. You will find the address, map and directions in the Find us section. The winemakers are all within about a kilometre, so you simply stroll between the cellars on foot.
Find us in Sady
Getting hereSady is a quiet corner of Uherské Hradiště, 3 km from the centre. It's about two and a half hours' drive from Vienna, just over an hour from Brno. Pop 'Sady, Uherské Hradiště' into your maps and head our way.
By shared bike
- First 15 minutes free, just right from the centre (Nextbike)
By bus
- Uherské Hradiště – Sady, střed or Sady, Za Kovárnou
- Uherské Hradiště bus stationchange here for the buses to Sady
By train
- Uherské Hradiště3 km, on foot or change to a bus in front of the station
- Kunovice1 km on foot
- Kunovice zastávka2 km on foot
By taxi
- Scorpio Taxi, +420 608 690 126. English spoken, on the phone or over WhatsApp.scorpiotaxi.cz
- Bronislav Sahánek, +420 776 670 412. He knows us, usually arrives quickly or sends a replacement. Czech-speaking.
Train and bus times are on idos.cz.
Contacts
Chair of the association
Josef Medek
vase@vinarstvimedek.cz
Press and PR
Jaromír
jaromir@vinarisady.cz
+420 608 667 701 (SMS, Signal, WhatsApp)
General contact
vasi@vinarisady.cz
wine shows, samples and anything else
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