One of the better-known saints of the Catholic church, St. Martin is honored on November 11th in the Czech Republic with the Feast of St. Martin, a meal of duck, dumplings and red cabbage. The feast is accompanied with St. Martin’s wine, a popular wine that arrives at wine stores on that day.
St Martin’s wine is only allowed to age for several weeks and produced each year from the newest harvest of certain grapes.
„Today there exists an established codex for what can be called St. Martin’s wine, and the grape varieties that wine makers are allowed to use are Mueller Thurgau and Malvasia grapes for the whites, and for the reds Modrý Portugal and Saint Laurent grapes,“ told CTK Vladimir Jachym from Cellarius wine store.
The short aging time leads to a light, slightly acidic wine that is perfectly easy to drink. St. Martin’s wine, much like Beaujolais, does not age well, and Jachym recommends consuming it by the following spring.
