“It started fermentation earlier. Yesterday I came to the cellar and it was so bad that I postponed the beginning by one day, “says the manufacturer. Nevertheless, this season started four days later than last year. The year 2018, when the first burčák had to drink alone at the end of July alone with his family, because the law allows sales from
On August 1, it remains a unique prank of an unpredictable, once hurried, sometimes prudent nature.
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“Year after year it’s different and the year before it just came out, everything was so wild, everything matured earlier,” returned to the curious start of the burčák season two years ago, a winemaker who is famous for starting sales almost every time.
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“I always offer people burčák at that early stage, still such sweet juice. A lot of people like it in this form, and whoever wants the right one will just wait for the day. It wouldn’t make sense to come up with a burčák when he’s almost at the top. Before people bring it home, it’s over, “says the manufacturer.
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Fragrant Irsai Oliver
People can be the first to taste a burčák made from Irsai Oliver grapes, but for example, the Valtice Wine Cellars picked grapes from the new early Solaris variety this week. “I bet on Irsay, it’s more fragrant than Solaris. After him, it will be the turn of the Moravian Muscat, which I would like to offer until the end of September. These are the two best varieties for burčák, they taste the best, “added Machuča.
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By the end of the burčák season, it will also reach the Müller-Thurgau variety and one of the Rieslings, but these do not match the aromas of the mentioned varieties. People have the opportunity to traditionally taste burčák or partially fermented grape must. It is tastefully the same product.
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However, the name burčák is reserved exclusively for juice from domestic grapes. If they are imported from Hungary or Slovakia and the like, they must not be offered as burčák. The Food Inspection Authority is researching this and Machuča also has experience with inspection. The inspectors compare a sample of burčák and grapes from the vineyard.
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This year will be difficult for Machucha. Not from the point of view of a winemaker, but as a merchant. He relies on the fact that he guarantees his burčáky, and that is why he has been selling in the same places for years. He lost one this year, due to the reconstruction of the bridge on the road from Brno to Vienna, no cars are driving around his place near Pasohlávek.
“I’ll try it here, at the detour a short distance from Dolní Dunajovice. Maybe no one will kick me out, “says the winemaker with a little apprehension.
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