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A little while ago I caught some news reports on the local Czech news saying that the over priced wine that is being sold here from other countries is more like cooking wine for them, and it would be best to stick to Czech wines as you would get far better quality and value than the imported variety.

Sure quality wine from other countries would cost a fortune for the average Czech person, yet I felt that there was some bias to this report and I decided to go on my own, to explore the cornucopia of wines, take a tour of the globe, why not, since it is so nicely laid out in my local Hypernova. Every time I walk down this path of tranquility I am constantly amazed, and this is nothing compared to the next isle over which is just beer, and that…well, that’s just another story. Nearly twenty countries are represented, thousands and thousands of bottles and I knew that this trip around the world would be well worth the effort. I might just have to go around twice.

With a quick google of ‘alcohol’ and ’safe’ I come across the Patient UK website and they say that it is quite healthy for me to consume a half a bottle of wine a day, and so I say cheers to that and where is the bottle. I am way under my quota and I have to keep healthy. The website along with many other things also mention the older you are the more you can drink, now that is something I can relate too. Wine has become a mood thing for me, red wine is little different than white, white makes me dance, and red wine lets me truly see how gorgeous and how sweet my wife really is. You see, with married life being new to me I recently realized how drinking and sports have suddenly increased, something I never really paid much attention to. And so for this I have to thank Hathor - the Greek goddess of wine and intoxication for easing me into married life and with that I raise a toast.

Having forayed into this jungle of wines I have decided that I’m not going to become a wine connoisseur and I don’t want to pretend to be one. I just want to find a drinkable wine, it’s all I can ever hope for when I open a bottle and take the first sip. I hate experiencing this ‘let down’ feeling, making me want to throw the bottle against the wall. To me this is what bad wind is good for, Art Nouveau, to be thrown against the wall and watch it explode into all sorts of shards so I can take a moment to admire delineations on the wall, a fate that should belong to all bad wines.
Now sometimes I just can’t do that and I have to force it down, because I am aiming for a better Nálada, and of course an easier understanding of the feminine consciousness. Oh wine …where would I be without you, probably uptight and alone in some room trying to understand the difference between algorithms and the intricate patterns of a leaf. Thank goodness for wine that I’m not doing that.
I am willing to wager that 3/4 of the population is attributed to the spirit, and so that I make a toast as well, the drink of the gods, yet one must be careful not to venture into the excess as alcoholism, a scary word for some, has not only sparked the mood to create many a life, but as well destroyed a few and in that essence of delving into the understanding of the two, creation and destruction. I raise another toast.
Now back to my wine tour. All the majors were represented; France, California, Australia, Bulgaria, Italy, Hungary, South Africa, Chile and a few more. I started with the ones that hover around 70 crowns ($3.50) and so far I would admit that the Chilean wine is the most drinkable, and the Italian wine is not bad as well. As for the Czech wine, their representation was an isle and a half and the rest of the world just one side. When I first move to the CR I did what any foreigner would do, risk all for adventure and explore the country the are in by eating the food and delving in the local alcohol, (Slivovic) and I found that the Czech wine had so much flavour, such quality, that sometimes they were hard to swallow and so instead of working at trying to acquire a taste for the wine. I went back to the tried and trusted. The preferred watered down crap of the cheap foreign wines. I will eventually delve into the fascinating selection the Czech wines once I thoroughly explored the rest of the World. It just means I will have to refine the palette, work out the taste buds in order to appreciate the vast and fine selection of the Czech wines. Now where is that amazing Czech cream cheese that works so well with my wine?

Richard Havlik

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