Austria

Question 1

Austrian wine style

Answer 1

• Purists
  — A wine’s greatness resides in it’s purity
• The goal of a (good) winemaker is to express the flavors of a given piece of ground

Question 2

Grapes of Austria?

Answer 2

White:
- Grüner Veltliner*
- Riesling
- Furmint (common in ausbruch, principal in Tokaji)
- Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc)
Red:
- Blaufränkisch (indigenous, AKA Lemberger)
- Blauburgunder (Pinot Noir)
- St Laurent
- Zweigelt*
* most planted *

Question 3

Sweet wines of Austria?

Answer 3

• Beerenauslesen
• Ausbruch
  — Between BAs and TBAs
  — Only in Austria and Hungary
• Trockenbeerenauslesen
• Strohwein (‘straw wine’ —grapes dried on straw in Burgenland)
• Eiswein

Question 4

Wachau wine categories?

Answer 4

• Steinfeder
  — ‘Feathery grass’
  — Less than 11.5 ABV
• Federspiel
  — ‘Falconry’
  — 11.5 to 12.5 ABV
• Smaragd
  — ‘Emerald lizard’
  — Minimum 12.5 ABV

Question 5

What do they call Pinot Noir in Austria?

Answer 5

Blauburgunder

Question 6

Four major areas or Austrian wine production?

Answer 6

• Lower Austria (actually the most northern)
• Vienna
• Burgenland
• Styria