The country's potential has only surfaced since the 1989 revolution. With the division of the former Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic has been left with a third of the vineyards, divided between the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia. A lack of direction is the chief problem, although Western investment will help. Moravia has the greater potential with a macroclimate not dissimilar from Alsace .
Bohemian whites tend towards dryness, but have high acidity .
Interestingly, the wine laws are modelled on those of Germany.