Wine

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha

Some days it can be hard to be thankful, until we think a little harder. We are breathing and that is good!

and speaking of good, so is wine. September begins the grape harvest and wine season here in the Czech Republic.... září víno vaří (September cooks wine) – and September is indeed the time when all the year's major wine events are held especially in the wine regions of Morava. Prague will celebrate the beginning of the grape harvest - vinobraní (grape picking) – at the Botanical garden in Trója (northern Praha, not far from Kobylisy) this weekend.

Burčák, is the name of new wine that has just started to ferment. It is a sweet, powerful and not unlike drinking sweet fizzy grapejuice, but with a kick. It is said that it still ferments in your stomach and then really kicks you. I had my first Burčák last September with friends in Olomouc. It is really quite a treat. Burčák alone is worth any trip to one of the many wine festivals to be found in the Czech Republic and in Prague this coming weekend. ..but not the only reason. I must go to Troja. ;-))