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Fritsch Roter Veltliner 2024 Wagram
A rare Austrian variety revived and worthy of a place at the table. From €13.15, £20.10, $24.19. It was pouring rain, cold water dripping from the sides of the tents...
Tara Q Thomas
Friday 5 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Austria's Single Vineyard Summit 2025 – other whites
From Chardonnay to Zierfandler, the final report from Tara and Julia’s marathon Austrian tasting. Tara writes One could argue that we’ve saved the best for last – the lesser-known, the...
Tara Q Thomas
Wednesday 19 November 2025
• 8 min read
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Austria's Single Vineyard Summit 2025 – Styria
Tara Q Thomas
Tuesday 18 November 2025
• 8 min read
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Faced with an array of more than 500 Austrian wines at a tasting in London earlier this month, I found...
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I taste thousands of wines a year. Sometimes in their region of origin, sometimes at home, sometimes in restaurants and...
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Here's the interim official report from the Austrian Wine Marketing Board – official but reasonably candid. And see this forum...
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The Austrians don't do things by halves. Unless you count sweet wines. Otherwise, as I discovered on a recent trip...
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A roller coaster ride might sum up my experience of tasting nearly a hundred Grüner Veltliners at the Austrian annual...
Wines of the week
From €5.83, £6.50 and 11.62 Swiss francs. Find this wine What we need on Twelfth Night at the start of...
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We Masters of Wine went back to school last month with an AGM preceded by a tasting in Vintners' Hall...
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After all these years I have become relatively inured to the distracting lure of tasting notes. I can usually read...
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After all these years I have become relatively inured to the distracting lure of tasting notes. I can usually read...
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The following sad news has just been released by the Austrian Wine Marketing Board. I met him only briefly but...
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Just over a month after our earlier report on Austria 2007 vintage so far, here’s an official (read positive) summary...
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The Austrian wine marketing board have published their official summary of the vintage so far, calling it 'the winemaker's year'...
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Austria has the highest percentage of organic agriculture in Europe: already 30% of the total, and 4.2% of viticulture (with...
Inside information
Soil and climate and other natural environmental factors (terroir, if you prefer) have no respect for political boundaries, and vice...
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Southern Styria, or Südsteiermark, is the southernmost wine region of Austria and borders on Slovenia. (See Austria invades Slovenia for...
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Last March, just after my colleague Tim Atkin MW had been presented with the International Wine Communicator of the Year...
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