…. so now we are having beer (!) waiting for our 7pm dinner and what a fabulous day we have had at the Palais Coburg, viewing multi-million dollar wine cellars and meeting the celebrities of the wine world. The champagne meet and greet led to a presentation in which we learned “insider secrets” from Gerard [...]

  At City Winery in New York today Andi Kollwentz and Rainer Wess led a fabulous presentation titled: The Wachau and the Leitha: A Tale of Two Mountain Ranges. In the course of the seminar we saw an incredible slideshow detailing the very different terroir – Austria is a tapestry of gneiss and schist and [...]

… so last night was a trade tasting (afternoon) and consumer party for Austrian wine. Usually I just go to the trade tastings yet last night was invited to the evening (consumer) soiree as well. The wines were incredible, of course — yet it had been so long that I visited a consumer event I [...]

“Austria!” a friend exclaims, nearly chocking on his sip of Sauvignon Blanc. “They make Sauvignon Blanc in Austria?!” People have been making wine from the Sauvignon Blanc grape in regions around the world for hundreds of years. For most of…