Let’s talk Polish Wines
I feel that Poland doesn’t get the respect that it deserves when it comes to wine. As a big promoter of everything Polish, I find there is always a bit of eye rolling when I talk Polish wines. So, you see it is not all about Vodka in Polska.
In Poland they say everything starts with passion, one Polish winemaker summed it up with “don’t be afraid of your dreams, because only then will your life make sense” Robert (Winnica Kresy), that is so true.
Wine tours have literally taken off in Poland, the vineyards open every summer offering 1–5-day tours, there is the Małopolska Wine Trail, the Carpathian or head west for one of the Silesian tours, and that is just to name a few. Wine tourism is getting bigger every year. Polish vineyards welcome thousands of visitors to their “farms” with advertising slogans like “jurassic wines” and “degustacia” “enotourism”, “vinitourism” and “boutique wines” creating a curiosity that makes your mouth water.
My favourite wine at the moment is the orange wines, this new wine is made not from oranges as most people think it is, it is entirely different. It is white grapes mashed up and left to ferment with their skins and seeds still attached. It has very few additives so usually its organic. It is often slightly cloudy and I heard someone say the other day “make sure you’re sitting down when you taste your first orange wine”. I suppose it takes a while to get your head around the fact it doesn’t taste like oranges and isn’t always orange in colour. In some parts of Europe, it is just called amber wine. Poland is well know for its amber gem and Krakow is known as the Amber City in Polish it is called Bursztynie, but I digress. I hear Winnica Kresy has a delish orange wine near Krakow and can’t wait to taste it. Poland is everything fruity, it is known for its fruit farming, and many of Poland’s wines are known for their fruity notes, like blackberries, strawberries, cherries and apples.
One thing that is really special is the detail taken when designing their wine labels, they obviously think about each design creating a small masterpiece. Each has a story to tell, did I mention that the Poles are great story tellers. These labels reflect their past their present and their future, some are serious others purely fun. Everything from family portraits, animals, flowers and even space men never two the same. Some are even named after family members it takes it to a whole other level, I love them! So, I suppose what I am saying here is Poland is letting the world know they now have a footprint in the world of wine. I am counting down the days when I set foot back on Polish soil to make my own footprint, see you in 2022. hopefully with a glass of Polish finest wine.
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