From €7.50, £11.95, 13.15 Swiss francs Find this wine How about an explosively fruity Austrian white this week? It's screwcapped too, for ease of access and...

See my tasting notes on a wide range of Austrian reds. Austrian white wines have been the darlings of the world's more sophisticated sommeliers for some years now, but are wine drinkers...

Faced with an array of more than 500 Austrian wines at a tasting in London earlier this month, I found it hard to know where to start, and where to finish (I think I was the last one standing...)....

Here's the interim official report from the Austrian Wine Marketing Board - official but reasonably candid. And see this forum thread for what happened in the second week in October,...

The Austrians don't do things by halves. Unless you count sweet wines. Otherwise, as I discovered on a recent trip to the Niederösterreich region, no expense was spared in accommodating a group...

This very thorough report was sent to us by Susanne Staggl of the Austrian Wine Marketing Board. If you are less interested in the weather and more interested in the wines, skip to the...

We Masters of Wine went back to school last month with an AGM preceded by a tasting in Vintners' Hall (shown here) of some of Austria’s finest wines. This was held in honour of Pepi Schuller...

In a nutshell : Reliably high winemaking quality. Great dry Rieslings, Gruner Veltliners, reliably botrytized sweet wines and improving reds. Main grapes : Grüner Veltliner,...

Soil and climate and other natural environmental factors (terroir, if you prefer) have no respect for political boundaries, and vice versa. This is why, for example, in the new edition of the...

These comparative tastings of Austria’s top wines against international competition are getting to be rather boring.   We have already had one that showed that...

Seattle has bequeathed the world more than its fair share of modern icons: Boeing; Microsoft; Starbucks; Amazon and Costco are the most obvious. But as in so many...

From €11.87, $17.24, £15.50 Find this wine I'm getting more and more enthusiastic about the Blaufränkisch grape and am delighted that Dorli Muhr, Austria's most...

See also   The best Welschriesling in the world?  and   Some great Austrian Rieslings  published earlier this week. Does the dirt make the difference? The Austrian...

See also The best Welschriesling in the world? published yesterday and Julia on Grüner Veltliners from different soil types in  Digging the dirt under Grüner Veltliner . . A...