The postage stamp Slovak Viniculture is devoted to Skalický rubín, a unique branded wine that received, based on Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2328, a protected designation of origin (PDO) label in 2017. Vines have been grown in the area surrounding what is today Skalica from as early as the Great Moravian Empire. This has been confirmed by the discovery of viniculture knives from the 9th century that were found in a burial ground at Kopečnica. The first written mention of the local viniculture dates from 1450; it speaks about Dionisius of Secs, the Archbishop of the Esztergom Diocese and cardinal, who...
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