Modra - The Wine Festival

Yesterday Steve, Kevin and I got on a bus and road to Modra. It is a small town about an hour outside of Bratislava. When I first got here I was told about a wine festival that Steve confirmed from one of his bike rides.

This wine festival featured wine which to my understanding has only gone through the first processes of becoming wine. It is not clear like normal wine and it is very very sweet. We're not sure about the alcohol content either but it was quite delicious. The festival was very much like a normal street fair. There was live music lots of food stalls all selling chicken or long kilbossas which you could watch get cooked right there. All of the food stalls had vats of the new wine in white and red varieties. There were also plenty of baked good stalls, and stalls with cheep plastic junk. Save the food stalls the most interesting things were the wood workers, many of whom were making their various goods on the spot. The three of us enjoyed a few glasses of our new wine while watching a man in traditional garb carve out a wooden bowl with hand tools. He did it in stages with these sharp curved tools with different radii of curvature. It was mesmerizing and after he finished one he took a beer break and we got a little nod of the glass.

All in all it was a very pleasant excursion, and it is a shame the new wine has no shelf life. So in spite of this we enjoyed as much of it as we could there.

Steve has a few pictures from our trip and I will try and get them from him when we have time.

I will write more soon.