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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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I enjoyed tasting the current range of the family firm of R & A Pfaffl based in Stetten in Austria's...
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From €7.50, £11.95, 13.15 Swiss francs Find this wine How about an explosively fruity Austrian white this week? It's screwcapped...
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The phrase 'a pig in clover' may not translate directly into German but that's how I felt as I focused...
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21 Mar – See comments added below.
See Julia's enthusiastic tasting notes on 80 fine Austrian whites.
Before the annual...
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Dr Josef ('Pepi') Schuller MW assembled the wines below for me to taste when I visited his very impressive Weinakademie...
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2 Mar – London stockists added. Readers outside London may not realise how definitively the focus of the city's social...
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'One of the greatest vintages in Austrian history.' This upbeat assessment of 2011, just coming to a close, comes from...
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From €20.92, $44.50, 39.50 Swiss francs, £30 and 267 Danish krone Find this wine Let us not forget just how...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See my tasting notes on a...
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In a world full of uncertainty, it was always comforting during my blind tastings for the Master of Wine exam...
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At this year's generic Austrian tasting at the Institute of Directors in London (pictured here by Alastair Bathgate) I took...
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The majority of the tasting notes below are from Ebner-Ebenauer, a particularly interesting and ambitious producer in Austria's Weinviertel run...
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22 Dec - There is news of a ceasefire in the war between the Wachau growers' association and Gritsch, the...
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The Austrians are at it again. They have held several significant blind comparisons of their own top wines with similar...
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Thanks to an encounter with a stash of old, forgotten bottles, a group of us were able to taste some...
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Two new DAC** regions will come into force on 1 Sep 2010: Leithaberg (pictured here) and Eisenberg (pictured below). Leithaberg...
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