Pálava Wine Festival
Heading to eastern Europe in late summer, Road Trips Foodies?
Consider a stop in the south Moravian town of Mukulov for the Czech Republic’s Pálava Wine Harvest Festival. It’s scheduled for the second weekend in September each year, which makes it September 7 through 9, 2012.
Those who appreciate culinary delicacies and fine wines, served with a bit of culture, can expect three days of fun and a wide-ranging program of events. One specialty is burcák: unfermented wine from the just-pressed grapes.
There’s a historical crafts market, but the centerpiece is Saturday’s parade when King Wenceslas IV will walk through the crafts market and the square. The festival is said to date back to 1403 when John Lichtenstein, the knight in charge of the Mikulov manor, brought the king back from captivity in Vienna.
(Photo courtesy of Ceský fortel)
