
I love Prague! I still do … as it
seems! Especially in summer! A couple of weeks ago I had the chance
to reaffirm this love. I can't really tell you why exactly
I love this surely beautiful city so much. Because beauty isn't everything!
There are tons of beautiful places I've been to and many of them did not impress me that much. Perhaps it is the
usual daze generated by highly unsensible amounts of cakes, coffee and high-voltage
Absinth which might soften my ever critical personality. Noooo,
I don't think sooo. I am not as critical as many people d'like
to think. So, I assume it is this unusually relaxed – at least unusually relaxed for
a large central European city, tranquil, serene and slightly morbid touch
to this place which makes it so appealing to me. Well, of course
tranquil and serene apart of those well known hords of bachelors from
Germany, Britain and other palces in their Borat like swim suits and
their slightly louder form of unconcious multilateral-communication.
These performances are not so enormously appealing, I think. And there is Franz and my
everlasting love for his stories. And little Krtek the hero of my childhood. And, and, and ... So, I guess there are plenty of
reasons to love Prague, but what on earth has this to do with wine!?
Well, nothing at all! Or almost nothing at all! Well, in Prague I had the chance
to hunt down a couple of bottles of Czech Pinot Noir which isn't
that easy to find outside the country! And today I'd like to share the
first of these bottles. Thanks to my total inability in the Czech language - by the way a very difficult language - I won't be able to jibber-jabber all to much about today's Pinot. What I can tell you is that it was produced by Vinařství Krásná Hora in Morava, more precise from Starý Poddvorov region, in the very south-east of the Czech Republic alongside the border to Austria and Slovakia. Krásná Hora is a very small family winery with approx. 5 ha. It was established in 2005 and produces wines from various Burgundian varietals as well as Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, Muscat, Traminer and Zweigelt. All grapes are cultivated in accordance with organic principles and were grown on loess dominated soils. My Pinot Noir was aged in used oak barrels for round about 12 months. I guess, that is enough.Let's get started ...