Rudolf Jelínek Slivovice Distillery Visitor Center. Recently, I visited the famous distillery on the real Wallachian plum brandy, which is located in Vizovice. Here are some observations from my visit. I don't like alcohol too much, so I don't understand plum brandy very much. However, I am interested in museums of all kinds and various visitor centers, so I could not miss the visitor center of Rudolf Jelínek's slivovice distillery.
Right at the beginning of the tour, which lasts an hour and costs 200 crowns, we watched a short film about the origin of the entire factory in the cinema hall. There was a short space in the cinema to see all the different bottles of plum brandy that had come into circulation in the past.
With a guide, we then visited a growing distillery, a leveling plant with giant wooden barrels (distillates ripen there) and a bottling plant (bottles are filled there for a change). Then we got to one unusual part of the whole distillery, which fascinated me a lot. It was a large room with many wooden safes, in which you can pay for a safe for one or more years, where you have stored your purchased bottles of plum brandy. Whoever pays for the safe also becomes a fan of the Vizovice distillery and has some small bonuses and benefits at his disposal. . The safes are rented here by well-known personalities of the Czech show of business, politics and sports. For example, the well-known Czech actor and entertainer Bolek Polívka has rented a safe here.
The tour also includes a tasting of great local products. Finally, you will receive three small samples of different types of delicious local plum brandy. These are already served in the company's shop, so at the end of the tour you can buy a bottle of real unadulterated plum brandy at home.
At the end of the tour, we received an invitation to other extended offers that the local visitor center offers . There are basically two of them. The first is an extended variant of the tour, which lasts 80 minutes and costs 250 crowns. You will also see interesting spaces where the fruit is received, fermented and distilled. The second offer concerns Jelínek's Koštovna, which you can rent to celebrate your birthday or organize a corporate event. Jelínkova Koštovna is a modern representation hall, which can be found directly in the distillery and can accommodate up to 130 people.
What will you see here in a nutshell?
In the end, we can recap what you will see in the Vizovice distillery in one hour. So, in addition to a short film about the history of a very successful distillery, a growing distillery, an interesting equalization operation, a bottling plant and a stylish room with small wooden safes, which you can subscribe to with Rudolf Jelínek for a few years in advance.
What did I like most here?
What I liked the most here was the handy small museum of plum brandy, which was full of fragrant herbs, old labels, smiling old advertisements and beautiful First Republic posters ..
Where to stay nearby & swimming opportunities nearby
If you do not have time to see the whole Vizovice chateau and its surroundings, then I also enclose the possibilities of accommodation by the water in the vicinity.
Slušovice Dam - 11,4 Km from the castle - tips for accommodation
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