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...

'One of the greatest vintages in Austrian history.' This upbeat assessment of 2011, just coming to a close, comes from Josef (Pepe) Schuller MW, founder and managing director of the Austrian...

From €20.92, $44.50, 39.50 Swiss francs, £30 and 267 Danish krone Find this wine Let us not forget just how tremendous the best Wachau winemakers such as Emmerich...

In a world full of uncertainty, it was always comforting during my blind tastings for the Master of Wine exam to think that Grüner Veltliner could be recognised by its distinctive white pepper...

At this year's generic Austrian tasting at the Institute of Directors in London (pictured here by Alastair Bathgate) I took a deep breath and decided it was time I immersed myself in the...

The majority of the tasting notes below are from Ebner-Ebenauer, a particularly interesting and ambitious producer in Austria's Weinviertel run by the talented winemaking couple Marion Ebner...