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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
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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This is a slightly longer version of an article that was also published in the Financial Times. Usually when I...
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This is a longer version of an article that also appeared in the Financial Times. See also my tasting notes...
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The Austrians, having wooed us with their Grüner Veltliners, Rieslings and Sauvignon Blancs, are now pretty keen to convince us...
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See our guide to coverage of the MW Symposium in Florence. Pierpaulo Petrassi MW, who looks after alcoholic drinks for...
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Jancis writes 'They would have you believe some godforsaken grapes that, in hundreds and hundreds of years of viticulture, wine...
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Did you know that Riesling is planted on only 4.1% of Austria's vineyards (1,850 ha)? I probably did know that...
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See this guide to our autumn collections. At last! We start our collection of regional collections – tasting notes assembled...
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See Our collected works – a guide. From today until the end of the month, we'll be publishing a succession...
Wines of the week
From €11.87, $17.24, £15.50 Find this wine I'm getting more and more enthusiastic about the Blaufränkisch grape and am delighted...
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See also The best Welschriesling in the world? and Some great Austrian Rieslings published earlier this week.Does the dirt make...
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See also The best Welschriesling in the world? published yesterday and Julia on Grüner Veltliners from different soil types in...
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This is the first of three tasting articles to be published this week on Austria. See also Some great Austrian...
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FX Pichler has long been an international star of the Wachau, Austria's most famous dry white wine region. He was...
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