Austria DAC ✅ Flashcards
(169 cards)
1
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What are the countries bordering the southern side of Austria?
A
- Italy
- Slovenia
2
Q
Classical wine scale classification of Austria
Precise the must weight by levels
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- Wein: 10,7 KMW
- Landwein:14 KMW
- Qualitätswein: 15 KMW
- Kabinett Qualitätswein: 17 KMW
- Spätlese Prädikatswein:19 KMW
- Auslese Prädikatswein: 21 KMW
- Beerenauslese Prädikatswein: 25 KMW
- Eiswein Prädikatswein: 25 KMW
- Strohwein / Schilfwein Prädikatswein: 25 KMW
- Ausbruch Prädikatswein: 30 KMW
- Trockenbeernauslese Prädikatswein: 30 KMW
3
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Explain Wein quality level under the classical Austrian wine law?
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Created for the 2009 vintage
Replace the Tafelwein regulations
- Grape variety and vintage might be mention on label
- Geographic designation: No more precise than: Osterreich
4
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Explain the following term for Austrian wine industry:
Qualitätwein
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🍇 From one of the 36 varieties allowed
🧭 From any of the 16 wine regions
🍷 Must pass a tasting panel and a chemical analysis
Represent two-third of the total wine production of Austria
5
Q
Size of:
Bergland weinregion
A
Less than 500 Ha
➙ Western Austria
6
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🧭 Sub-regions of:
Bergland Weinbauregionen
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- Karten
- Oberösterreich
- Tirol
- Salzburg
- Vorarlburg
7
Q
Explain:
Kamptal DAC
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🎉 DAC since 2008
🍇 Varieties: Gruner Veltliner &/or Riesling
-
Classic:
➙ 🥃11,5% ABV
➙ 🛢️No taste of wood or Botrytis -
Classic + Village name:
➙ 🥃 12% ABV -
Classic + Ried:
➙ 🥃 12,5% ABV -
Reserve:
➙ 🥃 13% ABV
➙ 🛢️ Light tone of wood or botrytis allowed
8
Q
German / Austrian synonym of:
Pinot Blanc
A
Weissburgunder
9
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Austrian Qualitätwein is separated into 2 levels.
What are they?
A
- Pradikatswein
- DAC (Districtus Austriae Controllatus)
10
Q
🏠Name some producers of the Eisenberg DAC?
A
- Krutzler
- Uwe Schiefer
- Wachter-Wiesler
DAC of the Burgenland - Austria
11
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Give the main lines of the:
Österreichischen Traditionsweingünter
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- Producer association created in 1992 in Austria.
- Organisation of the Austrian “Erste Lage classification”
- Is not officially recognised but the are linking their restrictions to the DAC system
- In 2012, they had developed and classified 52 Ried (top sites) throughout Kamptal DAC, Kremstal DAC, Wachau DAC and Traisental DAC
12
Q
Date of the creation of:
Österreichischen Traditionsweingünter
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🎉 1992
13
Q
What are the newest DAC of Austria since 2017?
8 in total
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- Thermenregion: 2023
- Wagram DAC: 2021
- Wachau DAC: May 2020
- Ruster Ausbruch DAC: 2020
- Carnuntum DAC: 2019
- Vulkanland Steiermark DAC: 2018
- Südsteiermark DAC: 2018
- Weststeiermark DAC: 2018
- Rosalia DAC: 2017 = First vintage
14
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Explain the following and the impact on the Austrian climate:
Pannonian Plain?
A
🧭 Large plain stretching from the Eastern Austria to Hungary and the Eastern European countries
🪨 It is and old seabed of loess soil
🌦️ Severe continental climate:
➙ ☀️ hot and dry summers with ❄️ cold winters
15
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Explain the following term:
Leithakalk
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Name of the soil of the Leithaberg DAC:
Gneiss, mica slate over limestone
16
Q
Explain:
Rosalia DAC
A
🧭 DAC of Burgunland
🍾 Still dry red & rosé only
🍇 Varieties: Blaufränkisch and/or Zweigelt
🛢️ Réserve wines:
➙ ✅ Can be labelled by Ried / single parcel
➙ 🥃 13% ABV minimum
17
Q
What styles are permited outside the Rosalia DAC?
A
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Grande Rosalia: defined by Codex Rosalia
➙ Dry Red wines only from Blaufränkisch or Zweigelt
➙ 13,5% ABV
➙Oak ageing and present in flavors -
Rosolo:
➙ Dry red wine from dryed grappes (Amarone’s like wines)
➙ Must be hand-harvested
➙ 15% ABV -
Rosalita is the sweet version
➙Recioto’s like wines
18
Q
Varieties of:
🍇 Rosalia DAC red wine
A
At least 85% of:
* Blaufrankisch
* Zweigelt
⚠️ Rosé wine can not mention any varieties on the label
19
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Varieties of:
🍇 Wagram DAC
➙ As Riedenwein level
A
- Grüner Veltliner
- Riesling
- Roter Veltliner
20
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Varieties of:
🍇 Wagram at Ortswein level
A
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Whites: Must be dry and Monovarietal
- Chardonnay
- Gruner Veltliner
- Roter Veltliner
- Riesling
- Weißburgender
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Red: Must be monovarietal
- Blauburgender
- Zweigelt
21
Q
What is the northern most village of the Kamptal region?
A
Zobing
22
Q
Name the 3 Weinbauregionen of Austria?
(Landwein)
A
- Weinland
- Bergland
- Steierland
23
Q
Varieties of:
🍇 Carnuntum DAC?
A
-
White:
* Grüner Veltliner
* Weissburgunder
* Chardonay -
Red:
- Zweigelt
- Blaufränkisch
Single varieties wines: 100% labelled variety
Blended wines: 66% of the blend must come from one of those varieties
24
Q
Name the main villages of production of:
🧭 Carnuntum DAC
A
- Göttlesbrunn
- Arbesthal
- Höflein
- Petronell
- Prellenkirchen
25
# Year of DAC's establishement of
🎉 **Carnuntum**
**2019**
26
# Minimum aging for:
🛢️ **Carnuntum DAC** wines
➙ *For Orstwein & Riedenwein*
Not released before:
**White**:
➙ March 15th the year following the harvest
**Red**:
➙ November 1st the yearfollowing the harvest
27
# Minimum final ABV for:
🥃 **Carnuntum DAC**
**12% ABV**
28
Name some **major producers** of the **Carnuntum DAC**?
* Muhr-Van der Niepoort
* Gerhard Markowitsch
* Glatzer
29
Is this **wine** can be labelled as **Carnuntum DAC**?
| Explain why
**No**
Pinot Noir is not a allowed variety of the Carnuntum DAC
*It will only be labelled as Österreich Wein*
30
# Explain the main soil of:
🪨 **Kamptal DAC**
* **Main rock**:
➙ Gföhl
➙ Gneiss
➙ Mica-Schist
* **Sub-soils & river bed:**
➙ Clay
➙ Loess
➙ Loam
31
# What soil feature make the following vineyard unique:
**Heiligenstein**
| ➙ Kamptal region
Made of a rare outcrouping of **weathered sandstone** mixed with **volcanic rock** 🌋
32
# Explain the following term
**Grande Rosalia**
* Outside regulation of the Rosalia DAC
* Defined by the **Codex Rosalia**
* **Red wines** only made of **Blaufrankisch** and **Zweigelt**
* *Must reach a 13,5% ABV*
* *Show recognisable oak flavour*
33
# Name the major wine producing villages of:
**Wachau DAC**
➙*From West to East*
* Spitz
* Weißenkirchen
* Wösendorf
* Joching
* Dürnstein
* Unterloiben / Oberloiben
* Mautern
34
# Explain briefly:
**Kremstal DAC**
🎉 Rewarded in **2007**
🍇 **Varieties**: Gruner Veltliner & Riesling
🥃 **Minimum ABV levels**:
➙ **Classic**: 12% ABV
➙ **Classic + vineyard labelling**: 12,5% ABV
➙ **Reserve**: 13% ABV
35
# Name some highly regarded producers of:
🏠 **Kamptal**
* Schloss Gobelsburg
* Hirsch
* Bründlmayer
* Brandl
* Hiedler
36
# Explain briefly the following:
**Mittelburgenland DAC**
🎉 Awarded DAC in **2005**
🍇 Red wine only made of **Blaufränkisch**
🪨 Deep clay soil
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# Precise the rules and requierement at all level of:
🪵 **Mittleburgenland DAC**
* **Classic**:
➙ 🥃 From 12,5% to 13% ABV
➙ 🪵 No new oak involved
* **Classic + specified sites**:
➙ 🥃 From 13% to 13,5% ABV
➙ 🪵 Must be aged in large or neutral wood vessels
* **Reserve**:
➙ 🥃 Minimum 13% ABV
➙ 🪵 Must be aged in oak
➙ 💰 Not released before 1/03/H+2
38
# Name some important villages of:
🧭 **Mittleburgenland**
* Deutschkreutz
* Horitschon
* Lutzmannsburg
* Neckenmarkt
39
# Important wine producer of:
🏠 **Mittleburgenland DAC**
* Moric
* J. Heinrich
* Iby
* Franz Weninger
40
# Main soil of:
🪨 **Mittleburgenland DAC**
**Deep clay**
| ➙ 🍇 Well suited for **Blaufränkisch** production
41
# Explain the location of:
🧭 **Leithaberg DAC**
* Around the town of **Eisenstalt**
* Western side of the Neusiedl lake
42
# Explain briefly:
**Ruster Ausbruch DAC**
🎉 DAC awarded in **2020**
➙ 🧭 From the **city of Rust**
🍯 **Minimum residual sugar**: 45 g/L
🤲🏻 Grapes are **harvested by hand** from **botritys affected** grapes
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# Varieties of:
🍇 **Ruster Ausbruch DAC**
* Weissburgunder
* Welschriesling
* Chardonnay
* Muskateller
* Grauburgender
* Furmint
| ➙ Can be single variety of blended wines
44
# Minimum residal sugar for:
🍯 **Ruster Ausbruch DAC**
🍯 **Must weight**: 30 KMW
🍬 **Residual Sugar**: 45 g/L
45
# Name the rivers shapping the followng regions:
💦 **Kamptal DAC** & **Kremstal DAC**
**Kamp** and **Krems**
➙ *They are both tributaries of the Danube River*
46
# Name the 6 main vineyards of:
🧭 **Wiener Gemischter Satz DAC**
* Bisamberg
* Nussberg
* Kahlenberg
* Döbling
* Maurerberg
* Laaerberg
47
**Ruster Ausbruch** is most similar to what other wine style in Europe?
**Tokai Aszu process**:
🍬45 g/L residual sugar minimum
🍯 30 KMW must weight
48
Name the **first ever DAC** of Austria
**Weinviertel**
➙ 🎉 Introduced in 2002
49
# Name some of the most important villages of:
**Kremstal DAC**
* Angern
* Furth
* Stratzing
* Gedersdorf
* Rohrendorf
* Hollenberg
* Krems
* Oberfucha / Furth
* Stein
50
# Give the minimum ABV restriction for
🥃 **Kamptal DAC**
* **Gebletswein**: 11,5% ABV
* **Ortswein**: 12% ABV
* **Riedenwein**: 12,5%
➙ None of them can show oak or botritys tones
* **Reserve**:
➙ 13% ABV mini
➙ Can show some oak and botrytis notes
51
🎉 Name all the **Niederösterreich DACs**
1. **Weinviertel**: 2002
2. **Traisental**: 2006
4. **Kremstal**: 2007
5. **Kamptal**: 2008
6. **Carnuntum**: 2019
7. **Wachau**: May 2020
8. **Wagram**: 2021
9. **Thermenregion**: 2023
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🎉 Name all **Burgenland DACs**
1. **Mittelburgenland**: 2005
2. **Leithaberg**: 2008
3. **Eisenberg**: 2008
4. **Neusiedlersee** red wines: 2012
5. **Rosalia**: 2017
6. **Ruster Ausbruch**: 2020
7. **Neusiedlersee** Sweet wines: 2020
53
🎉 Name the **newest DAC** of Austria
**Thermenregion DAC**
➙*Dry white and red wines*
## Footnote
Received its DAC in 2023
54
# Varieties at Riedenwein level for
🍇 **Thermenregion**
* **Whites**
➙ Rotgipfler
➙ Zierfandler
➙ Pinot Blanc
➙ Chardonnay
* **Reds**
➙ Pinot Noir
➙ St Laurent
## Footnote
Can be varietal or blended wines
⚠️ Rosé is not allow under the DAC umbrella
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# Style of wine produced under:
🍾 **Thermenregion Ortswein**
**White or Red**
➙ From Dry to sweet, including
* Auslese
* Beernauslese
* Trockenbeernauslese
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# Year of creation of
🎉 **Thermenregion DAC**
**2023**
57
Name the **scientist** who invented the **wire trellising system** for viticulture
**Dr Lenz Moser**
*At the Klosterneuburg centre in Austria around 1950's*
58
What is the new **pyramid structure** for the **Austrian Sekt** classification?
| From the 2022 vintage
* **Austrian Sekt without**:
➙ 🍾 Traditional method: 9 months aging on the lees
➙ 🛢️ Tank Method: 6 months aging on the lees
* **Austria Sekt Reserve**:
➙ 🍾18 months months aging on the lees
* **Austria Sekt Gtoße Reserve**:
➙ 🍾36 months months aging on the lees
## Footnote
*Major changes in 2021 vintage onward to introduced this regulation*
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# Give the regulations of the following:
**Sekt Austria gU**
## Footnote
*As Classic Level before 2021 update*
* 🍇 **Varieties**: any approved by Qualitätswein
* 🌈 **Style**: White, red or rosé
* 🤲🏻 **Harvest**: by hand or machine
* 🦠 **Fermentation method**: Traditional or Charmat
* 🍾 **Lees ageing**:
➙ 9 months for bottle ageing
➙ 6 months for tank method
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# Give the regulations of the following
**Sekt Austria Reserve gU**
🍇 **Varieties**: any approved by Qualitätswein
🌈 **Style**: White, red or rosé
🤲🏻 **Harvest**: hand harvest only
🧭 **Origin**: must be pressed and fermented from the same federal state of origin of grapes
➙ *must be also mention on the label*
🚜 **Pressing**: Whole-cluster pressing only
➙ **Pressing yields**: 60% maximum
🦠 **Fermentation method**: Traditional method
🍾 **Lees ageing**: 18 months
🍯 **Permited sweetness levels**: Brut to extra brut
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# Give the regulations of the following
**Sekt Austria Große Reserve gU**
🍇 **Varieties**: any approved by Qualitätswein
🌈 **Style**: White, red or rosé
🤲🏻 **Harvest**: hand harvest only
🧭 **Origin**: must be pressed and fermented from the same federal state of origin of grapes
➙ *must be also mention on the label, as well as vineyard is permited*
🚜 **Pressing**: Whole-cluster pressing only
➙ **Pressing yields**: 50% maximum
🦠 **Fermentation method**: Traditional method
🍾 **Lees ageing**: 36 months
🍯 **Permited sweetness levels**: Brut to extra brut
| From the 2022 vintage onward
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Is **tank method** permited for the **production of Austrian Sekt**?
**Yes**
Only permited on the first quality level
## Footnote
⚠️ *For Reserve and Große Reserve level, it is prohibited*
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# Explain the natural features influencing:
**Wachau DAC**
💦 The **Danube river** cools down the severe continental climate
💨 **Northward winds** cooling the summer nights
🧭 **The south facing slopes** allow grapes dry conditions for longueur growing season and maturation
64
# Explain the following:
**Codex Wachau** of Vinea Wachau
🎉 Founded in 1983
🏠 Association of producers of200 member
🍇 Based on the ripenning classification at harvest
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Name the **3 tiers** classification of the **Codex Wachau**
| Precise their ripeness level and final acohol restriction
**Steinfeder**
🍇 15 KMW
🥃 Maximum 11,5% ABV
**Ferderspiel**
🍇 17 KMW
🥃 From 11,5% to 12,5% ABV
**Smaragd**
🍇 19 KMW
➙ *=95° Oschle or Spätlese level*
🥃 Minimum 12,5% ABV
➙ *Wines must be dry in style and may be affected with botrytis*
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# Give the regulations of:
**Classic Neusiedlersee DAC**
🍇 **100% Zweigelt** for dry red wines
💰Not released before the **March 1st the year after harvest**
🥃 12% ABV minimum for dry
🍬 Sweet whites:
🍇 **Welschriesling** based for sweet whites
➙ Spätlese
➙ Auslese
| **White varieties**: Welschriesling Weissburgunder, Chardonnay
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# Give the regulations of:
**Réserve Neusiederlsee DAC**
🍇 Minium **60% Zweigelt**
💰 Not realsed before **March 1st the second year after harvest**
🥃 13% ABV minimum for dry wines
🍬 Sweet wines:
🍇 **Welschriesling** based for sweet whites
➙ Beernauslese
➙ Trockenbeernauslese
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# Is white wine allowed for:
**Neusiedlersee DAC**
**Yes**
* **Classic**:
➙ Spätlese & Auslese
* **Reserve**:
➙ Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese
| *The DAC was extended to include sweet white in 2020*
## Footnote
🍇 **Welschriesling, Weissburgunder & Chardonnay**
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# Explain the following term:
**Seewinkel**
**Sweet wine made of the villages of**
* Apetlon
* Illmitz
* Podersdorf
| 🍇 Welschriesling, Weissburgunder, Chardonnay
## Footnote
Under the Neudierlersee DAC
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There is a major update in **2020** for the **Niesiedlersee DAC**
Allowed the production of **sweet white wines**
* **Classic level**:
➙ Spätlese & Auslese
* **Reserve**:
➙ Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese
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# Explain the follwing term:
**Hauersekt** / **Winzersekt**
**Recoltant-Manipulant** in German speaking countries for **Sekt**
## Footnote
Must me mendatory for the Große Reserve Sekt quality level
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# Mention the structure of the qualification level of:
**STK members Association**
## Footnote
*Steiermark*
* **Regionswein**: Regional wine
* **Gebietswein**: Territory wine
* **Ortswein**: Village wine
* **Riedenwein**: Cru wine
* **Erste STK Ried**: STK Premier Cru
* **Grosse STK Ried**: STK Grand Cru
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🍇 Name the **traditionnal Grapes** for the **STK association** in Steiermark
* Sauvignon Blanc
* Morillon: *Chardonnay*
* Weissburgunder
* Grauburgunder
* Gelber Muskateller
* Riesling
* Traminer
* Welschriesling
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# Give some synonyms and the country of origine of:
**Blaufränkisch**
➙ **Frankovka**: Croatia / Czeck Republic
➙ **Lemberger**: Germany
➙ **Kadarka**: Hungary
➙ **Burgen Mare**: Romania
➙ **Gamé**: Bulgaria
75
# Precise the location and the main variety of:
**Eisenberg DAC**
🧭 Former **Südburgenland region** in Austria
🍇 **100% Blaufränkisch** under the DAC rules
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# Name the most important wine villages of:
**Kamptal DAC**
➙ **Zobing**
➙ **Langelois**
➙ **Kammern**
➙ **Straß in Straßentale**
➙ **Engabruner**
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# Mention the alcohol rules for the following:
**Wiener Gemischter Satz DAC**
🥃 **With geographique indication**
➙ Maximum 12,5% ABV
🥃 **With Single vineyard indication**
➙ Minimum 12,5% ABV
78
# Explain the following term:
**Sturm**
* **Semi-fermented, semi-sparkling grape juice**
* Traditionnally drunk during the harvest meal in Austria
79
Name the **official DAC's** borderring the **city of Wien**?
| (*Vienna*)
* **Weiner Gemischter Satz DAC**
➙ 🧭 Within the city boundaries
+ Thermenregion DAC
+ Carnuntum DAC
+ Weinviertel DAC
+ Wagram DAC
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# Give the minimum must weight and final alcohol for:
**Austrian Pradikatswein**?
🥃 **5% ABV**
🍯 **19 KMW** from Spätlese ripeness
| Can rised up to Trockenbeernauslese
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# Name the lake and its impact to the vines of
**Burgenland** area
## Footnote
Austria
**Neusiedl lake**
☀️ Temparature control
➙ Less dramatic summers & winters
🌦️ Milder climate
🦠 Inhancing botritys due to higher humidity climate
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# Give the main rules of:
**Traisental DAC**
🍇 **Gruner Veltliner & Riesling** only
* **Classic**
➙ 🥃 11,5% ABV minimum
➙ 🪵 *No wood or Botrytis tones*
* **Classic + Village name**
➙ 🥃 12% ABV
* **Classic + Vineyard**
➙ 🥃 12,5% ABV
* **Reserve**
➙ 🥃 13% ABV
➙ 🪵 *Can show some wood & botrytis flavors*
## Footnote
🎉 Awarded in 2006
83
# Give the soil structure of:
🪨 **Traisental DAC**
**Limestone based**
➙ Covered by a gravel top soil
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# Explain the follwing term:
**Steinfeder**
**Classification of the Codex Wachau**
🍇 The lightest style in ripeness
🥃 Maximum 11,5% ABV
🍯 Must weight: 15 KMW
➙ 🍬 Must be dry
85
# Name
The **4 Weinbaugebiete** of Austria
* Niederösterreich
* Wein (Vienna)
* Burgenland
* Steiermark (Styria)
86
# Name the first official vintage of:
**Rosalia DAC**
**2017**
87
# Name the official white varieties of:
**Leithaberg DAC**
* Neuberger
* Chardonnay
* Gruner Veltliner
* Weissburgunder
| ➙ Either single variety or blended
88
# Give the German synonym of:
🍇 **Pinot Gris**
Grauburgunder
89
# What is the main variety of:
**Eisenberg DAC**
**100% Blaufrankisch**
90
Name the DAC's of the **Niederösterreich** sitting alongside **the Danube River**
* Wachau DAC
* Kremstal DAC
* Kamptal DAC
* Wagram DAC
* Traisental DAC
* Carnuntum DAC
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Explain the **scandale** happened in Austria **in 1985** that changed forever the image of the local wine industry
**The Antifreeze scandal**
➙ A few winemakers used a molecule called **Dietylene Glycol** during the vinification to add texture and body
➙ It is health dangerous chemical, colorless & flavorless
92
From **Austria** to **Germany**, what country first started making **Trockenbeernauslese** as regular basis?
**Austria**
*In 1526, almost 200 years prior Germany*
93
# Explain the following term:
**Gföhler**
🪨 **Classic soil** type of the **Wachau DAC**:
➙ *Gneiss based soil, very hard rock*
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# Name the 4 pratices not allowed into:
The **Codex Wachau**
1. Chaptalisation
2. Concentration
3. Fractionation
4. Aromatisation
➙ Wood for exemple
## Footnote
The wine must be as natural as possible
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# Explain the following:
**Weinviertel DAC**
🍇 **Gruner Veltliner**
🍬 Wines must be **Dry**
* **Classic**:
🥃 12% ABV
* **Reserve**
➙ 🎉 Introduced in 2009
🥃 13% ABV
🪵 Wines must show a distinct peppery notes
➙ But no obvious wood or Botrytis tones
| 🏠 Weingut R&A Pfaffl
## Footnote
🎉 **First DAC** of Austria rewarded in **2002**
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Name the **2 DACs** not bordering the shore of Danube River from the **Niederösterreich** area
1. Weinviertel
2. Thermenregion
97
# Maximum pressing yields in:
**Austria**
| 🍇 For any levels of quality
**9,000 Kg/Ha**
= 67,5 hl/ha
98
# Explain the following term:
**Federspiel**
Second ripenning quality of the **Codex Wachau** Classification
🥃 From **11,5% to 12,5%** ABV
= 🍯 **17 KMW**
| **Meaning**: falconer's tool
99
# The following term refered to in Austria:
**Ried**
**Single vineyard**
*Also called Top site vineyard*
## Footnote
Almost like a Grand Cru selection
100
# Explain the following:
**Eisenberg DAC**
🍇 **100% Blaufrankisch**
🍬 Must be dry (4g/L max)
* **Classic**:
🥃 12% ABV
💰 Released: in September the first year after harvest
* **Reserve**:
🥃 13% ABV
💰 Releasing: in March the second year after harvest
## Footnote
🎉 Awarded in **2009**
➙ Followed by Reserve in **2008**
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# Explain the following term:
🇦🇹 **DAC** 🇦🇹
**Districtus Austriae Controllatus**
➙ Know as the highest quality level
➙ Take some similarities from the French's AOC based appellations
➙ Restriction on varieties, alcohol level, soil type, villages, ageing...
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# Name some iconic producers of:
**Wachau DAC**
* **FX Pichler** (Oberloiben)
* **Rudi Pichler** (Wosendorf)
* **Emmerich Knoll** (Oberloiben)
* **Lagler** (Spitz)
* **Prager** (Weißenkirchen)
* **Jager** (Weißenkirchen)
* **Domaine Wachau** (Durnstein)
* **Nikolaihof** (Mautern)
103
# Give the previous name and the year of the changement of:
**Wagram DAC**
**Donauland**
## Footnote
🎉 Renamed in **2007**
104
# Name the local wine speciality from:
**Thermenregion DAC**
**Spätrot Rotgipfler**
➙ 🍇 Blend of Rotgipfler and Zierfandler varieties
105
# Explain the following:
**Smaragd**
🍇 The rippest level of the **Codex Wachau Classification**
🍬 Must be **dry**
🥃 **12,5% ABV** minimum
🍯 **19 KMW**
➙ *Equivalent to Spätlese ripeness*
## Footnote
Name after a emerald lizard find on the local vineyard walls
106
# Name the principal soil type of:
🪨 **Eisenberg DAC**
Gravel and slates
107
# Give the date of creation of:
**Vinea Wachau**
🎉 **1983**
108
# The following was know as before 2016:
**Leithaberg DAC**
**Neusiedlersee-Hügelland**
109
# Give the 4 most important varieties of:
🍇 **Steiermark**
1. **Welschriesling**
2. Sauvignon Blanc
3. Traminer
4. Weissburgender
110
# Give a 2 other names of:
**Chardonnay** in **Austria**
1. Feinburgunder
2. Morillon
111
# Give 2 synonyms of:
**Blaufränkisch**
* 🇩🇪 **Germany**: Lemberger
* 🇭🇺 **Hungary**: Kekfrankos
112
# Give all DACs of:
**Burgenland** wine region
## Footnote
**🇦🇹 In Austria**
* **Mittleburgenland DAC**: 2005
* **Leithaberg DAC**
➙ 2008 for red
➙ 2009 for white
* **Eisenberg DAC**: 2009
* **Neusiedlersee DAC**: 2011
* **Rosalia DAC**: 2017
* **Ruster Ausbruch DAC**: 2020
113
# Explain the following term:
**Rosalita**
## Footnote
**🇦🇹 In Austria**
**Sweet red wine** produced within the **Rosalia DAC boundaries**
➙ *But not regulated by the Codex Rosalia itself*
🍇 Grapes are dried before fermentation like a Recioto
➙ Based on Blaufrankisch & Zweigelt
114
# Explain the following
🦠 **Dietylene Glycol**
The **chemical molecule** behind the **Antifreeze scandale** in Austria in 1985
115
🧭 **Weinland region** is an area covering what official wine region in **Austria**?
* Niederösterreich
* Wein
* Burgenland
## Footnote
Landwein Classification
116
# Name the largest DAC of:
**Niederösterreich**
➙ 🇦🇹 *Lower Austria*
**Weinviertel**
~ 10'500 Ha
## Footnote
Also know as the first DAC in the country
117
# Explain the following term:
**Heuriger**
**Tradition and speciality of the Wein wine region**
🍾 Freshly made wine, drunk quickly after bottling
🏠 Wine for the local taverns and restaurants in Vienna
118
Give the exact **DAC** of the **Wein wine region** and its main specifiactions
**Wiener Gemischter Satz DAC**
🍇 Field blend wine:
➙ 3 varieties must be present
➙ The main variety does not represent more than 50% of the final blend
➙ Each of the 3 main varieties must be present at least at 10%
119
Is **rosé wine** allowed under the **Rosalia DAC**?
**Yes**
🍇 Made of Blaufränkisch & Zweigelt mostly
➙ ⚠️ No varieties can be mention on the label
120
# Explain the following:
**SKT**
## Footnote
🇦🇹 in Austria
**Steirische Terroir und Klassikweingüter**
➙ 🏠 Free association of 10 winemakers of Styria
➙ 🍾 Here to promote the terroir & the quality of the region
121
Name the sole **Austrian's DAC** only focus on **Zweigelt**
**Neusiedlersee DAC**
🎉 Awarded classic DAC in 2011 & Reserve in 2010
122
# Name the main varieties of:
**Kremstal DAC**
* Gruner Veltliner
* Riesling
123
# Give the main rules for:
**Red Leithaberg DAC**
🍇 **85% Blaufränkisch mininimum**
* + Pinot Noir
* + St Laurent
* + Zweigelt
🥃 12,5% ABV minimum
🪵 Aged in wood for Reserve level
124
# Give the crossing of:
🍇 **Gruner Veltliner**
Savagnin x St Georgener
125
# Give the crossing of:
🍇 **Neuberger**
## Footnote
🇦🇹 Austria
Silvaner x Roter Veltliner
## Footnote
⚠️ Roter Veltliner is a red variety unrelated to Gruner Veltliner
126
# Explain:
🌦️ The climate of **Niederösterreich**
**Largely influenced by the Pannonian Plain**
➙ ☀️ Hot & dry continental climat
➙ ❄️ Combined with severe winters
## Footnote
💦 Some areas are soften by the presence of the Danube River
127
# Name an influente winemaker of:
🏠 **Illmitz**
**Alois Kracher**
➙ *Know for its outstanding sweet wines and eiswein*
128
# Why is the following famous for:
**Dr Lenz Moser**
🇦🇹 **Austrian Professor**
➙ **Father of the Guyot system** and most importantly the wire trellising system by the 1950's
## Footnote
Was the Grand father of the today Kremstal's based winery Lenz Moser
129
Stiyisticly, how the **Gruner Veltliner of the Weinviertel** differ from the examples of **Kamptal or Kremstal**?
In **Weinviertel**, they are often more pungent, less aromatic & lighter in body with a strong white pepper notes
130
🇦🇹 🍯 Name the 2 most famous villages for the sweet wine production in Austria
* **Illmitz**
🧭 By the eastern shore of the Neusiedlersee lake
🏠 Kracher
* **Rust**
🧭 By the western shore of the same lake
🍇 Know for the production of Ruster Ausbruch DAC
🏠 Winzel
131
# Name the most planted varieties of:
🍇 **Wien wine region**
* **Gruner Veltliner**
* Riesling
* Weissburgunder: *Aka Pinot Blanc*
132
# Explain the following term:
**Schilcherwein**
🧭 Local speciality of the **Weststeiermark DAC**
🍾 **Rosé** wine made from maceration process
🍇 **Blauer Wildbacher**
## Footnote
➙ 🎉 Had its own DAC from 2017 to 2018. Fusion to Weststeiermark DAC
133
# Name the grapes made of this crossing:
🍇 **Savagnin x St Georgener**
**Gruner Veltliner**
134
Name the **ripeness level** of the **Austrian Pradikatswein** scale
* **Spalese**: 19 KMW
* **Auslese**: 21 KMW
* **Beerenauslese**: 25 KMW
* **Strohwein**: 25 KMW
* **Eiswein**: 25 KMW
* **Ausbruch**: 30 KMW
* **Trockenbeerenauslese**: 30 KMW
## Footnote
⚠️ Kabinett is considered as Qualitätswein and not Prädikatswein under the Austrian law.
135
# Explain the following term:
What is Strohwein?
## Footnote
🇦🇹 Austria
**Straw wine** in Austria
➙ Ripeness levels are achieved by passerillage after harvest
🍄 Grapes are botrytis free
🍯 25 KMW must weight minimum
136
# Name the crossing of the following:
🍇 **Rotgipfler**
**Savagnin x Roter Veltliner**
## Footnote
⚠️ Roter Veltliner is a red grapes unreleated to Grunter Veltliner
137
📏 Name the **largest wine growing region** in Austria
**Niederösterreich**
➙ *Burgenland is second, but twice smaller*
138
# Explain the following:
**Vie Vinum**
**National wise Austrian wine fair**
🎉 Every years in spring
🧭 Located in Vienna
139
# Explain the following:
**Prünfnumer**
## Footnote
🇦🇹 Austria
**Number of reference to attemp the wine has received the Qualitätwein classification**
➙ Wines are going throughout a panel tasting & chemical analisys for authorization
🇦🇹 Once approuved, the bottle can hold the white and red banderol capsule
140
# Give some major winemakers of:
🏠 **Steiermark**
* Manfred Tement
* Polz
* Neumeister
* Gross
* Erwin Sabathi
* Hennes Sabathi
* Sattler
## Footnote
➙ All of them are STK Members and represent the top of the region
141
# Explain the following wine:
**Spätrot Rotgipfler**
**Traditional wine from Thermenregion**
🧭 Austria
🍇 Blend of: **Rotgipfler** & **Zierfandler**
142
# Explain the following:
**Rosolo**
| 🇦🇹Austria
**Dry red wine produced on the same boudaries than Rosalia DAC**
➙ Non official style
🍇 Grapes are air dried on the vine then harvested by hand
🍯 Must be dry in style
🥃 15 % ABV minimum
| Amarone like wine
143
# Explain the following term, and the mouvement behind it:
**Austrian Erste Lage**
🎉 Officially introduced in 2012
🏠 Osterreichischen Traditionsweingünter (ÖTW): Producer's association
➙ *VDP like structure*
## Footnote
It will become certified and reconnized by the Austria wine laws shortly. 2023 made the change.
144
What was the duty of the Dietylene glycol? When does winemaker used it?
in 1985 was use to enhance the body of the Austrian wine (use to be to light for them)
145
# Name some major producers of:
**Carnuntum DAC**
* Muhr-Van-Niepoort
* Gerhard Markowitsch
* Glatzer
146
# Name the crossing of the following:
**Zweigelt**
**St Laurent x Blaufränkisch**
➙ 🎉 *Created in 1922*
147
# Name some iconic producers of:
**Kamptal**
* **Langelois**:
➙ Brundmayer
➙ Schloss Gobelsburg
➙ Loimer
* **Kammern**
➙ Hirsch
148
# Explain the following:
**Wiener Gemischter Satz DAC**
🧭 Sole DAC of the Wein wine region
🍇 Field blend wine:
➙ 3 varieties must be present
➙ The main variety does not represent more than 50% of the final blend
➙ Each of the 3 main varieties must be present at least at 10%
🍯 Must be trocken
149
# Average vine size of:
**Wien wine region**
Slightly over **600 Ha**
150
# Precise:
🪨 The **soil type** of the **Wachau**
**Gföhler**
➙ Hard Gneiss soil with loess on the slopes
➙ Also some sand in lower elevation, closer to the Danube River
151
Name the **first DAC** able to produce **white and red wines**
**Leithaberg**
🧭 Burgenland
➙ 🎉 Red since 2008
➙ 🎉 White since 2009
152
# The following is famous for:
**Klosterneuburg centre**
🏠 Influente university located on the external border of the city of Vienna
🚜 Took Austrian wine market out of the difficulties after the World War II
➙ By creating new grape crossing, with higher resistance and yields
➙ New technologies and material to improve the quality of the wines
➙ Offered some formation to newer oenologist
153
Name the **western most** DAC of the **Niederrostereich**
**Wachau**
➙ Steep slopes vineyards on the shore of the Danube river
154
Name **2 natural features** influencing the vine growing season in **Rosalia DAC**
* ⛰️ **Rosaliengabirge**: Rosalia mountain range
* 💦 **Wulka River**
155
# Name the 3 DAC of:
**Styria**
* Vulkanland Steiemark DAC
* Weststeiermark DAC
* Südsteiermark DAC
156
# Name some important producers of:
🏠 **Kremstal**
* **Seftenberg**
➙ Nigl
* **Parlt**:
➙ Malat
* **Sandgrube**
➙ Rainer Wess
157
# Name the crossing of:
🍇 **Blauburger**
**Blauer Portugeiser x Blaufrankisch**
➙ 🎉 Created in 1923
158
# Date of creation of:
**Wiener Gemischter Satz DAC**
🎉 **2013**
159
# Give the main rules for
**ÖTW Erste Lage wines**
🧪 The estate must be certified organic at least
☠️ The application of herbicite and insecticides are prohibited throughout the all winery
🚜 **60 Hl/ Ha maximum**
🤲🏻 Hand harvested
🍯 The musrt can not be concentrated
💰 Release:
➙ **White**: Until 01/09/H+1
➙ **Red**: Until 01/09/H+2
160
# Give the main rules for:
**ÖTW Grosse Lage wines**
🧪 The estate must be certified organic at least
☠️ The application of herbicite and insecticides are prohibited throughout the all winery
🚜 **50 Hl/ Ha maximum**
🤲🏻 Hand harvested
🍯 The musrt can not be concentrated
💰 Release:
➙ **White**: Until 01/09/H+2
➙ **Red**: Until 01/09/H+3
161
Name the region **classified under the ÖTW** so far
* Kamptal
* Kremstal
* Traisental
* Thermenregion
* Carnuntum
* Wagram
* Wein
162
# Name some important single vineyard of:
**Viessling**
## Footnote
🇦🇹 Wachau DAC
* Kalkofen
* Brücke
* Schön
* Marbach
163
# Name some important single vineyard of:
**Spitz**
## Footnote
🇦🇹 Wachau DAC
* Brück
* Aixpoint
* Singerriedel
* Setzberg
* Offenberg
164
# Name some important single vineyard of:
**Wosendorf**
## Footnote
🇦🇹 Wachau DAC
* Kollmütz
* Hochrain
165
# Name some important single vineyard of:
**Joaching**
## Footnote
🇦🇹 Wachau DAC
* Stein am Rhein
* Kollmitz
* Postaller
* Pichpoint
166
# Name some important single vineyard of:
**Weissenkirchen**
## Footnote
🇦🇹 Wachau DAC
* Achleiten
* Klaus
* Hinter Seiber
* Hinter der Burg
167
# Name some important single vineyard of:
**Durnstein**
## Footnote
🇦🇹 Wachau DAC
* Hollerin
* Hohereck
* Kellerberg
* Superin
* Schütt
168
# Name some important single vineyard of:
**Unterloiben / Oberloiben**
## Footnote
🇦🇹 Wachau DAC
* Loibenberg
* Muhlpoint
* Klostersatz
* Kreutles
* Schütt
* Steinertal
169
# Name some important single vineyard of:
**Mautern**
## Footnote
🇦🇹 Wachau DAC
* Silberbichl
* Im Weingebirge
