thumbnail|right|Location of Lower Carniola thumb|Glass of Cviček with its typical colour thumb|Pouring a glass of Cviček Cviček is a Slovenian wine from the Lower Carniola region of Slovenia. It is a unique wine, composed of different grape varieties including both white and red grape species. It has a relatively low alcoholic content of 8.5% to 10%. Despite its long history of being known as a sour and poor wine, it has recently become a very popular drink with both local people and visitors to the region.
thumbnail|right|Location of Lower Carniola thumb|Glass of Cviček with its typical colour thumb|Pouring a glass of Cviček Cviček is a Slovenian wine from the Lower Carniola region of Slovenia. It is a unique wine, composed of different grape varieties including both white and red grape species. It has a relatively low alcoholic content of 8.5% to 10%. Despite its long history of being known as a sour and poor wine, it has recently become a very popular drink with both local people and visitors to the region.
==History== In the Middle Ages, the region which later became known as Lower Carniola was part of the Windic March (also Slovene or Slavonic March), often called simply "March". Its wine was thus named Marvin (from German Marwein from Markwein), which was also mentioned by Valvasor, a seventeenth-century Carniolan historian. With the abolition of old viticultural system, people started to neglect vineyards, vine decay grew larger and larger and concomitantly, wine quality started to drop gradually. Becoming more and more sour, people referred to it as cviček (an old Slovenian word denoting very sour wine) and somehow the name stuck, allegedly also because of the synonymous German expression zwikt. After gaining independence the people living in Lower Carniola began to defend the quality of the wine, and today it has become a popular casual drink for locals and visitors alike.
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