The following day we woke up early (I went to bed at 3:30am and got up at 7:00am) because we needed to catch the bus for a 3 hour bus ride to Znojmo. The bus ride was very pleasant and allowed us to see the highway system and the country side. Once at Znojmo we were met yet again by Martin and his wife Tana, who then helped us get to the hotel we would be staying in for the night. After arriving at the hotel we ate some lunch and got on another bus to begin the wine tasting tour! This was a special privilege because you need to be a member of the winery in order to go on the tour. Since Martin and Tana were members we were allowed to attend as guests. After boarding the ‘wine’ bus we were given our wine glasses the string that would allow us to hang our glasses from our necks and a booklet of information about the various wines we would taste.

The itinerary for the day/night was the bus dropped us off at 4 different areas in the vineyard and at those areas we would tried four different types of wines. At the end the of the wine tour and after dinner we returned to the old monastery where wine is stored and were escorted to our table in the wine cellar where we tasted another 12 wines and ranked them. This was a very fun experience for obvious reasons, but additionally I got to learn a lot about how to make wine, the history of the wine in the region and of course try some very good wines in the middle of the vineyard. It honestly doesn’t get much better than that!

Location: Prague, Czech Republic