I went to one of the stalls I marked out for a look; it was one promoting Slovakian wine. Many of the varieties of grapes presented had been tasted already, so I was just looking around. They told me that there is this local variety of Muscat - Muskat Moravsky, which is a cross between Muscat Ottonel and an unspecified grape and suggested that I give it a try. It was a nice golden straw, with a grapey nose with orange notes. The wine was off-dry with acid orange fruit on the palate, and an orangey acid backbone for support.
When I came home and looked up the variety, I firstly mis-typed Muscat and found nothing. What was evident was that there are a lot of Muscats (their numerous synonyms notwithstanding). That is the same even with the Muskat spelling, with which I finally located the variety. The unspecified other parent turned out to be Prachttraube, and the Prime Name was an even more inpenetrable Mopr!
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