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Blind tasting, part 9 – Riesling
How to identify this characterful variety in its various guises, from Germany and elsewhere. Today’s lesson is devoted to one of the wine world’s most cherished varieties: Riesling. It’s also...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
• 14 min read
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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...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. Vienna possesses all the ingredients for the ideal restaurant city. Its...
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These comparative tastings of Austria’s top wines against international competition are getting to be rather boring. We have already had...
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See also tasting notes on about 170 current Gruner Veltliners and Rieslings from Austria. Austrian wine can be so very...
Wines of the week
find this wine Even before the David Irving hullabaloo, I’d been having a very Austrian week, immersing my palate in...
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The 2001 vintage was a difficult one for Alois Kracher, the man who put Austria on the map as a...
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The last wines from the 2001 vintage are only just starting to ferment. They are horribly difficult to make, can...
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