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Highlights: Sommer Blaufränkisch 2020 Leithaberg, Burgenland, Austria

January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 739 Views Blaufrankisch, Burgenland

Website: https://weingut-sommer.at/en I’ve been impressed with the wines from Leo Sommer in the past: https://wineanorak.com/2024/11/28/sommer-beautiful-low-intervention-wines-from-austrias-leithaberg-region/ I had this last night

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Judith Beck is making some impressive natural wines in Austria’s Burgenland

January 15, 2026January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 796 Views Natural wine

Website: https://www.weingut-beck.at/ Judith Beck farms 15 hectares of vines in Gols, in the Burgenland. Farming has been biodynamic since 2007,

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The big bottle party at the Cool Climate Wine Summit: a selection of interesting wines from Poland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026 jamiegoode 1146 Views

I’m at the Cool Climate Wine Summit in Copenhagen, and this year the opening evening was in the form of

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Heinrich: beautiful naturally inclined wines from Austria’s Burgenland region

December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 jamiegoode 1124 Views Natural wine

Heinrich is one of Austria’s most interesting producers. Based in Burgenland, they successfully negociated a style change in 2014 and

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Weingut Rosi Schuster, with Hannes Schuster, who’s making some of Austria’s best wines

September 22, 2025September 22, 2025 jamiegoode 2477 Views Blaufrankisch, Burgenland, Furmint

Website: https://www.rosischuster.at/en/ Hannes Schuster is based in Sankt Margarethen on the western shores of Lake Neusiedlersee. Most of his vineyards

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Projekt Wildtyp: natural wines from Burgenland, Austria, by an ex-scientist

September 16, 2025 jamiegoode 1718 Views Burgengland, Natural wine

Website: https://www.projektwildtyp.at/en This is a new winery, now in it’s fifth year. Boris Kovacic was an academic working in microbiology

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Slovenia: visiting Tement and Domaine Ciringa, where Austria and Slovenia meet

June 30, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2277 Views

Website: https://www.tement.at/en/ Tement is an important producer in Austrian Styria, but their cellar in Zierreg is right on the border

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Umathum: serious wines from Austria’s Burgenland region

April 15, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode 2720 Views Burgenland

Website: https://www.umathum.at/en/ Umathum is based in the Burgenland region of Austria. They are located on the east side of Lake

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Claus Preisinger, natural wine hero from Gols in Austria’s Burgenland

January 31, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 2707 Views Blaufrankisch, Burgen

Claus Preisinger’s began making his own wine in 2002 while working as an assistant winemaker with Hans Nittnaus. His state-of-the-art

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Karin Lautner: an interesting new producer in Austria’s Burgenland region

January 19, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 2228 Views Natural wine

Katrin works with Franz Weninger (previously she worked with Markus Altenburger), and this is her weekend project. She rents a

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2023 was a tricky vintage in Hawke’s Bay, but this selection of Chardonnays impressed
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2023 was a tricky vintage in Hawke’s Bay, but this selection of Chardonnays impressed

March 13, 2026March 13, 2026 jamiegoode

Hawke’s Bay is proving to be an amazing region for Chardonnay, making some of New Zealand’s best examples. This was

New (2024 vintage) releases from Jamie Kutch, one of California’s leading Pinot Noir and Chardonnay producers
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Wine anorak is one of the leading wine websites. This is the latest version of the site that began life in 1999, and was founded by Jamie Goode, who at the time was working as a science editor.

Since then it has grown, and Jamie is now a full-time wine writer, lecturer, wine judge and book author.

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