This year, BWD Wine Distribution celebrates its 10th anniversary on the Slovak market. We are marking this milestone with a three-day portfolio tasting across three cities where our branches are located – Prague, Brno and Bratislava. We are delighted that you will be joining us in person for the BWD Portfolio Tasting. To make the event easier to navigate and help with the organization, we have prepared a detailed event schedule including information about your accommodation, transportation, participation fees and the event programme.
Event concept
The Portfolio Tasting will be held in a walk-around tasting format, featuring wines from the participating wineries in our portfolio. The wineries will be arranged throughout the venue according to country and wine style. Each winery will have a designated table featuring the wines from the list you provided to us. We will take care of distributing the wines directly to your respective tables.
We kindly ask you to respect the visual identity of the event and refrain from bringing large promotional materials such as roll-ups, branded walls or other large displays.
If you would like to have winery catalogues, brochures or flyers available on your table, feel free to bring them to the event.
VENUES
Where the tasting takes place
21.10. I PRAGUE
J&T CAFÉ RUSTONKA
www.rustonkacafe.cz
Sokolovská 700/113, Invalidovna, Prague
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Event duration: 14:00–21:00
14:00–17:00 Open to sommeliers, HoReCa partners, private clients and bank clients
17:00–21:00 Open to the general public and invited guests
22.10. I BRNO
WANNIECK GALLERY
www.wannieck.cz
Ve Vaňkovce 2, Brno-střed
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Event duration: 15:00–20:00
23.10. I BRATISLAVA
SLOVAK NATIONAL GALLERY (SNG)
ATRIUM
www.sng.sk
Rázusovo nábrežie 2, Bratislava
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Event duration: 15:00–20:00
Afterparty at the venue: 20:00–00:00
Participant Information
Each winery representative is required to pay a participation fee:
330 € PER PERSON, PER DAY
If more than one representative from your winery is attending, the fee will apply separately to each person. Please inform our winery coordinator about the number of participants attending. The participation fee will be invoiced to you prior to the event.
The fee includes: accommodation, meals, transportation between the individual venues (flights are not included).
If you plan to arrive in any of the cities before the scheduled event dates or depart after the event has ended, any additional costs outside the official event dates will be at your own expense. We recommend booking your accommodation at the hotels where you will be staying during the event.
Daily Plan
In October, we will also send you the event schedule as a PDF by email and create a dedicated WhatsApp group, where we will keep you updated throughout the event regarding the programme, accommodation and transfers.
The organizer reserves the right to make changes to the programme.
Accommodation: Hotel Royal Prague
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- from 10:00 hotel luggage-room at the hotel will be available
- 13:00, meeting at Café Rustonka Prague (venue), followed by participation in the event until 21:00. There will be an open bar with cold buffet
- from 21:00 – 00:00, informal dinner at Pivo Karlín
- 21:00 – 00:00 late check-in at the hotel
- breakfast at Hotel Royal Prague
- 10:00, departure by chartered bus from Hotel Royal to Wannieck Gallery Brno (venue)
- 13:00 lunch at the gallery
- 15:00–20:00, participation in the event
- from 20:00, dinner at the gallery
- 21:30 followed by transfer by chartered bus to Art Hotel William in Bratislava
Accommodation: Art Hotel William Bratislava
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- breakfast at the hotel
- from 13:00, lunch at the SNG Café (venue)
- from 15:00–20:00, participation in the event
- from 20:00–00:00, afterparty at the venue
Urban Transport
Hotel Royal Prague (Thámova 688/36, Karlín) ↔ Václav Havel Airport
- Best option: bus 100 → Zličín stop (metro line B) → straight through, no transfer, to Florenc/Křižíkova (the hotel sits on line B). About 35–40 min total.
- Alternative: Airport Express (AE) bus straight to Praha hl. n. (main train station), then one stop by metro/tram.
- Taxi/Uber: about 25–30 min.
- Prague public transport: metro lines A/B/C + trams + buses, tickets via the PID Lítačka app or SMS, valid across all modes of transport.
Brno – Wannieck Gallery (Ve Vaňkovce 2 – right next to the main train station)
- From Bratislava Airport: bus 61 to the main station (~25 min) → train/bus to Brno (~1.5–2 h, RegioJet/ČD) → 5 min walk from Brno hl. n.
- From Prague (airport): direct RegioJet long-distance bus “Prague Airport – Brno” (~2.5 h), you get off at hl. n./AN Grand, 5 min walk.
- From Brno Airport (Tuřany): bus E76 to Hlavní nádraží/AN Grand (~25 min), 5 min walk.
- Brno public transport: trams, trolleybuses, buses, tickets via the DPMB app or a vending machine at the stop.
Bratislava – Art Hotel William (Laurinská 17, Old Town)
- From Bratislava Airport (BTS): bus 61 to the city center (~25 min) → 5–10 min walk into the Old Town, or taxi/Bolt ~15 min.
- From Vienna Schwechat Airport: Slovak Lines/FlixBus direct to Bratislava (Nivy or the main station stop), ~1–1.25 h, up to 27 departures/day → from Nivy it’s 15–20 min on foot or a few stops by trolleybus.
- Bratislava public transport: tram/trolleybus/bus, buy tickets in advance via the IDS BK app or SMS — inspections do happen.
Press kit & promotion
If you have not yet submitted your winery’s press kit (logo, photos and video invitation), please send it to marketing@bwd.sk.
We would greatly appreciate it if you could also share your participation in the BWD Portfolio Tasting 2026 on your social media channels.
Participating Wineries
Achaval Ferrer, Allegrini, Bailly-Lapierre, Bodega Chacra (not in person, just provide wines), Bodegas Mauro, Bruno Rocca, Ca‘ Marcanda (Gaja), Castellare di Castellina (not in person, just provide wines), Chateau Teyssier, Ciacci Piccolomini, Col d’Orcia, Ferghettina, Ferrari Trento, Fondrk, Franz Haas, Gaja, Gurdau, Henri Giraud, Jean Max Roger (not in person, just provide wines), Kolby, La Chablisienne, Le Dome, Livio Felluga, Marina Cvetic, Masciarelli, Nik Weis – St. Urbans-Hof, Parusso, Philipponnat, Podere Forte (not in person, just provide wines), Reisten, Rocca di Frassinello (not in person, just provide wines), San Román, Santa Barbara, Specogna, Tenuta delle Terre Nere, Troplong Mondot (not in person, just provide wines), Uccelliera, Van Volxem, Via Magna, Zlatý roh, 7 riadkov
Achaval Ferrer, Allegrini, Bailly-Lapierre, Bodega Chacra (not in person, just provide wines), Bodegas Mauro (not in person, just provide wines), Bruno Rocca, Castellare di Castellina (not in person, just provide wines), Chateau Teyssier, Ciacci Piccolomini, Col d’Orcia (not in person, just provide wines), Ferghettina (not in person, just provide wines), Ferrari Trento, Fondrk, Franz Haas, Gaja (Pieve Santa Restituta, Ca‘ Marcanda, IDDA), Gurdau, Henri Giraud, Jean Max Roger (not in person, just provide wines), Kolby, La Chablisienne, Le Dome, Livio Felluga, Marina Cvetic, Masciarelli, Nik Weis – St. Urbans-Hof, Parusso, Philipponnat, Podere Forte (not in person, just provide wines), Reisten, Rocca di Frassinello (not in person, just provide wines), San Román (not in person, just provide wines), Santa Barbara, Tenuta delle Terre Nere, Troplong Mondot (not in person, just provide wines), Uccelliera, Van Volxem (not in person, just provide wines), Via Magna, Zlatý roh
Achaval Ferrer, Bailly-Lapierre, Bodega Chacra (not in person, just provide wines), Bodegas Mauro (not in person, just provide wines), Bruno Rocca, Catena Zapata (not in person, just provide wines), Chateau Teyssier, Ciacci Piccolomini, Clemens Busch, Col Sandago, Castellare di Castellina, Ferrari Trento, Ferghettina, Fondrk, Franz Haas, Gaja (Pieve Santa Restituta, Ca‘ Marcanda, IDDA), Gurdau, Henri Giraud, Inama, Jean Max Roger (not in person, just provide wines), Kolby, La Chablisienne, Le Dome, Loimer, Marina Cvetic, Masciarelli, Nik Weis – St. Urbans-Hof, Parusso, Philipponnat, Podere Forte, Reisten, Rocca di Frassinello, San Román (not in person, just provide wines), Santa Barbara, Specogna, Tegernseerhof, Tenuta delle Terre Nere, Troplong Mondot (not in person, just provide wines), Via Magna, Vincent Girardin, Zlatý roh, 7 riadkov
