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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
• 4 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
• 9 min read
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Austria's Single Vineyard Summit 2025 – Styria
There is no such thing as a bad vintage; there is only hard and harder. And Styria’s 2023s prove their growers’ mettle. Above, Gerhard Wohlmuth looking up at the Edelschuh...
Tara Q Thomas
Tuesday 18 November 2025
• 8 min read
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Trockenbeerenauslesen aplenty, thanks to morning mists like this one.
Kracher of Neusiedlersee in Austria’s Burgenland is one of the world’s...
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The Austrians usually hold a comprehensive generic tasting in London early in the year. During the 2021 lockdown it was...
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A version of this article about a most unusual wine merchant is published by the Financial Times. See also Tips...
Wines of the week
Loimer's GVs are so good that they have featured as wines of the week twice in the last six months...
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A biodynamic, crown-capped, red Austrian natural wine that breaks the rules. From 3,180 Hungarian forints, €10.50, 11.40 Swiss francs, £12.95...
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22 February 2021 Marion Ebner-Ebenauer, whose heavy black bottles came in for some criticism below, adds a thorough report on...
Wines of the week
A different sort of Sauvignon, from a region that specialises in it.
2018 from €16.90, 3,340 Japanese yen, £20.90
2017...
Book reviews
Off to the Alps! Reading these books is probably as close as we virused Brits will be allowed to get...
Nick on restaurants
Nick asks four sommeliers to describe their pandemic-affected 2020 and to recommend two wine discoveries of the year. Clockwise above...
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A selection of current Austrian releases tasted in London to complement the mainly 2019 Grüner Veltliners and Rieslings tasted in...
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See Austria's super-pure 2019 Grüner Veltliners and More Austrians – mainly 2019 Rieslings for my review of 200+ current releases...
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Julia's second report based on the annual Traditionsweingüter tasting in Austria. Last time the Grüner Veltliners, this time everything else...
Inside information
No one in the UK is more knowledgeable about the conscientious machinations of Austria's long-term plan to classify its best...
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Julia was conflicted about whether to travel to attend this year's tasting of fine Austrian single-vineyard wines but afterwards was...
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Today’s sustainability heroes writing competition entry is the second vote for Franz Weninger in Austria (not forgetting some vines in...
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'My name is Helena Jordan and I am 28 years old. I am from Austria, been trained as a sommelier...
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