drinking dispatch.

the wine harvest season is just beginning here, and while that doesn't mean much for my day-to-day life (i've been attempting to avoid the moravian wines, which taste anywhere from disturbingly sweet to something like purple piss), it does mean that i got the chance today to try something i've heard about for a while - burcak.



burcak is a specialty of the early wine season. it's a very briefly fermented wine, so it's still actually fermenting as it's sold. it's only good for a matter of hours between when it's prepared and when it's consumed, so little shacks like this one spring up, selling wine out of pitchers and in large plastic bottles.



so i bought a cup.

it's still slightly bubbly, it's cloudy, i even had a grape pit in my glass. however, it's sweet - the best comparison i can make is grape skittles - not really a wine flavor, although there is the slight undertone of alcohol to it. the first sip will make you want to spit it out, but after a few more you start to warm up to it until finally you decide that it's the perfect way to drink away your saturday afternoon in prague.

more pictures from prague here.