Producers of the legendary Viennese Gemischter Satz will be able to display the Districtus Austriae Controllatus (DAC) geographical indicator and quality seal on their wines from the 2013 vintage onwards. Increasing numbers of international connoisseurs are discovering this excellent Viennese blended wine. Districtus Austriae Controllatus, or DAC for short, is a geographical indicator exclusively reserved […]
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An organic wine journey through Europe stops in Vienna to host a meeting of organic winemakers and their wines in May. The event, consisting of 35 winemakers from five countries, takes place in the Hotel Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom on the 11th and the 12th of May. The fair features a meeting between organic winemakers from […]
Vienna Vintner wine tour 2012
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Wine lovers in Vienna have the opportunity this coming weekend to take part in a wine tour the ‘Wiener Winzertour’ (Vienna Vintner) where local wine producers will be displaying their locally produced wine specialties for the fourth consecutive year. Wine buffs can tour the Vienna wine region and treat the palette to the very best […]
Wine holidays in Southern Styria
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Lovers of wine can get that bit closer to their favourite wines during a holiday in Southern Styria’s wine growing region. In the Sulmtal Sausal region holidaymakers can enjoy fantastic views over the beautiful vineyards and get a real insider look into the world of wine production at the heart of the Austrian wine making […]
The four star gourmet Jagdhotel in Guntramsdorf, Austria, is hosting two evenings of wine and top culinary fare during March. The wine tasting will take place in the hotel located just 20 kilometres from Vienna. Creative, regional cuisine lies at the heart of Gabriele and Franz Fakler’s hotel located on the Austrian wine route in […]
Following on from the regions of Eisenberg, Mittelburgenland and Lethaberg, Neusiedler See has become the most recent DAC labelled wine appellation in the state of Burgenland, Austria. The details were set in stone in the Burgtheater in Vienna yesterday (Thurs). The DAC or “Districtus Austriae Controllatus” which comes from the Latin for “Controlled District of […]
Austrian companies have invested six billion Euros in Romania since the fall of Communism, a diplomat has revealed.Michael Schwarzinger, the Austrian ambassador in Bucharest, said that amount has been spent by businesses from his country since the reintroduction of democracy in Eastern Europe (EE) after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989.Austrian oil and […]
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 […]
An Austrian wine came out top in a blind tasting of 75 Rieslings from all over the world in Great Britain.A Riesling from 2004 by winemakers Hirsch in Kammern, Lower Austria, made first place ahead of a wine produced by German winemaker Egon Müller-Scharzhof and a 2007 Riesling by the Prager family in Lower Austrias […]