Vintners in Vienna are celebrating after the Vienna Gemischter Satz wine was awarded the DAC (Districtus Austriae Controllatus) quality stamp. In order to get this seal of approval a series of criteria has to be filled. For example the Gemischter Satz has to be made of at least three white grape varieties, which were planted […]
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Vintners in Austria’s wine making heartland of Burgenland have started harvesting the grapes to make ice wine (Eiswein). The sweet dessert wine from the region which is now sold around the world is only made from grapes harvested after temperatures fall below freezing and the grapes are completely frozen through. The sugars and other dissolved […]
Grapes of wrath
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Police are helping keeping a watch on a 500-year-old grape vine after it was dug up – and hacked into pieces – in an attack suspected to have been carried out by a jealous vintner.The vine had survived wars, droughts, fires and finally the abandonment of the vineyard where it was growing bringing the arrival […]