Wine casks rolled up!

Cultivation of vine is a kind of art, which can not be understood without proper inspired vocabulary. No citizen of Prague would resist to the impression that this spirit was made by Moravians some time in early morning and that they are bound to wine as close as to their young girlfriends. Wine in Moravia “trains” and “raises” and “macerates” and lets into life same as young girls. Even when it comes to tasting, wines may be “slender” or “round", its taste would then be “young” and “sound”. Wine and women are the same and same as women, even wine is soothed with honesty. Therefore you do not have to adhere strictly to the vocabulary of your Moravian brothers, just think of the right visions and let your fantasy rise freely.

If you want to tease Moravians a bit and show that we are also familiar with their business in Prague, I would recommend you to do the following: walk through the exhibition and head towards the stylish cellar for tasting. After two or three glasses, you may enter in a casual discussion with wine growers. You can start as follows.

1/ First of all, look at the colour of wine: its might be “somewhat pale” to “colourless” and the “spark” inside somewhat “out”. And try to pronounce ending of your words longer. That will attract their attention.

2/ Now proceed to check the smell: at the beginning, you can just claim that the wine shows “somewhat weak stature” and “tired tertiary aroma”, then you can ask, whether it is not a bit oxidised. That will warm them up.

3/ Continue with tasting: you can set our Moravian friends with “truffle taste” (term used in France). Great attention will be also raised, if you describe the wine as “roast and silly”. That means grapes were exposed to excessive sunlight and the wine does not posses all of its expected qualities. If they stare at you, the tasting will culminate. Just lift the glass up for a toast and say, for example the Korean “kon-kang ul yhajo”! That must definitely ruin any rumours about Prague as the home of wine ignorants. Yet if you feel like that or want to learn more about tasting and cultivation of vine, there is nothing easier than to study the whole exhibition on the web prior to your “performance” and to find the date of wine tasting.

The Museum of Agriculture was established in the year in response to operators of the Anniversary Exhibition in Prague. The basic set of collections in this Museum comprised items exhibited at the Anniversary Exhibition in 1891 and the Ethnographic Exhibition in 1895. At that time the Museum of Agriculture formed a part of the Ethnographic Museum, it only became an independent institution in the year 1918.

For a short period of time, the Museum of Agriculture was situated in the Sylva-Tarrouca Palace in the Na Příkopě Street in Prague, it was then moved to the so called arena in Kinsky Villa in Smíchov for the period from 1902 to 1938. From the very beginning the Museum struggled with lack of space as there were additional branches established in Brno and Opava, therefore the mid 1930´s saw efforts to build a new building in Letná, Prague. This building, which is currently a significant sight from the period of Czech functionalism, was built in 1937 - 1939 together with the building for National Technical Museum according to the project of famous architect M. Babuška.

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