Bavirka 2021

Producer: Milan Nestarec

Region: Moravia

Grapes: Dornfelder, Zweigelt, mix of white grapesStyle: Red

ABV: 12 %

Size: 750ml

My dad, influenced by his work in a German vine nursery, once planted a whole lot of Dornfelder – a bold red German-born hybrid, fashionable back then. Tbh, I wasn’t a big fan of this 90s trend – charmed by great wines from Jura, Mosel or Burgundy, I wanted to get rid of it and replant it with something else. But the vineyards are in great shape and it felt so wrong to just uproot them. And then simply I lost any ambition to mimic wines made elsewhere and real- ised that there are other grapes than Pinot Noir and Riesling in the world. Barvířka is not just Dornfelder though, there’s some Zweigelt and a secret mix of white varieties blended in. It has low tannins, high colour, low alcohol and high drinkability; I drank a bottle in an hour all by myself so you can take my word for it. - Milan