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Gewürztraminer Wine Style: This is a medium to full-bodied white despite its red color, and produces a spicy, pungent (or blessed with a floral bouquet) white wine. Flavors: Origin: Alsace in France Found: France, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Austria, New Zealand, California, Oregon, Washington, and Australia. It is the second most widely planted grape in Alsace and the most widely planted in [...]
Grüner Veltliner Wine Style: It’s usually light to medium bodied, dry, with high acidity and an aromatic nose. It matches well with almost any kind of food, including the notoriously difficult such as artichoke and asparagus. Flavors: Origin: Niederösterreich in Austria Found: Austria only Grüner Veltliner is Austria’s most famous and exported grape variety. It is indigenous [...]
Pinot Blanc Wine Style: An almost neutral wine similar flavor and texture to Chardonnay and can be intense, and complex. Flavors: Origin: Alsace Found: Alsace, Germany, Italy, California, Champagne, Burgundy. A white grape which is grown in Alsace, where it is sometimes referred to as Clevner or Klevner, and in Germany and Austria, where it is known as Weisseburgunder. In Italy [...]
Weingut R & A Pfaffl Niederösterreich, Weinviertel Austria Above: The vineyard, cellar room and wine images. Courtesy and supplied by winery. Above: Elisabeth and Roman PfaffI posing for us at their booth. As we read and write, this hectares estate with its vineyards in Weinviertel, in lower Austria (meaning that part of the country which lies lower down the Danube), [...]
Alois Kracher Neusiedlersee, Burgenland Austria When you think of Austrian sweet wines one name springs to mind – Alois Kracher. Austria’s Alois Kracher is one of the world’s reknown makers of sweet wine. Based in the Burgenland district, south of Vienna, near the large, shallow lake called Neusiedler See, Kracher utilizes a variety of grapes for his sweeties, though [...]