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Raea winemakers celebrate harvest.
(From The Slovak Spectator)
A VINTAGE wine festival that takes place every September in the Bratislava suburb of Raea will present this year's harvest to wine-loving visitors next weekend. The organisers, who have a hard time recalling back to the festival's inception, have prepared a rich programme, which will run from early afternoon on Friday, September 12 to late Sunday evening, September 14. The festival will unofficially open with what is called Bureiak Training, the tasting of the seasonal sweet, thick, half-fermented grape cider called bureiak. This pungent beverage is the sign that the wine harvest has been collected and pressed into barrels to mature into wine. Visitors will have a chance to taste several bureiaks offered by winemakers from around the whole Small Carpathian region. "The Vinobranie [wine harvest] festivities will be officially opened on Saturday, when Bacchus [the god of wine] hands the traditional grape wreath to the mayor," said Eduard Brichta, the event's ...
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