The building including the wine cellar, the winepress room and the granary with the lot No. 3/2 was recorded on the map of the Stable Cadastral Area in 1876 for the first time. Its contour is marked with black colour, i.e. the building must have been built undoubtedly. Its owner, Martin Zábranský from the house No 19, had a nice farmstead with a pair of horses, two cows, a calf and two pigs. In the Register of Vineyards, Winepress Houses and Lodges, established in 1853, there were entered Zábranský´s 5 vineyards in the Dlúhý tract of vineyards. In 1853, he purchased a vineyard from Josefa Janošková in the Krátký tract of vineyards for a considerable amount of 300 guldens. Ten years later, in 1853, he purchased another vineyard in the Dlúhý tract of vineyards for 100 guldens. In 1853, he owned a winepress house in the village - Orstried- which could be identical with our building in the Na sklepech tract of vineyards. It can be a little bit older, as substantiated by the survived press marked NB and dated 1827.
Large vineyards, a winepress house and a wine cellar created a separate economic unit equal to the farm. For that reason, this unit did not remain a part of the mother farmstead, inherited by the first-born son František, but it was handed over to the second-born son Tomáš as his heir’s share. Tomáš purchased the farmstead No. 185 in Vrbice and dealt with farming. In 1910, he possessed a pair of horses, 1 heifer, 3 cows, 3 pigs, 2 sows, 10 sucking pigs, 15 hens, 3 gooses and 3 ducks.
Moreover, he was a co-owner of a gasoline treshing machine, operated in summer. The winepress house was inherited by his oldest son František. The second-born son Josef became
a shop assistant in Vienna. By means of František´s daughter Marie, married Slámová, the winepress house passed to this family that has owned it until today.
The building is situated on the southern outskirts of the village, along the road to Čejkovice. The place was a village pasture in the past, at whose edge houses and smallholdings were built gradually. At the beginning of the 19th century at the latest, the first winepress houses with granaries occurred.
The winepress room has a rectangular shape recessed about 1 metre under the surrounding terrain so one has to descent some wooden stairs. The walls are wide; the underground part is made of stones while the ground one is built of burnt bricks. Three ventilation holes provided with gratings are in the front wall. The beamand- plank ceiling has a boarded cover; the unusual height of 3,5 metres is caused by the necessity to place a large wine press here. The vaulted cellar with wine barrels can be entered through a short link.
The buildings are specified with their dimensions. High walls of the winepress rooms extended with the granary half-storeys reach almost four and half metres. The saddle roof, under which hay was stored in the past, has the same height. Therefore, the building unit makes an impression of massiveness and stability.
