A family affair: KOL's unlikely wine suppliers
Outside of the Slobodné Vinárstvo winery in Hlohovec, western Slovakia, an affectionate German Shepherd named Luna insinuates herself in and out of our legs. The winery's co-owner Agnes Lovecka and I sip strong black coffee at a table freighted with sweet cheese and vanilla cakes, korbácik (an exceptionally stringy cheese), parenica (rolls of smoked cheese), charcuterie from a nearby farm and treska, a cod salad – which I'm fittingly informed is instrumental in soaking up hangovers. "Breakfast wine!" Mišo Kuropka bellows. Agnes' brother-in-law and business partner arrives at the tabl...