Visiting Kracher, one of the world’s great sweet wine producers, in Austria’s Burgenland region
Website: https://www.kracher.at/ Based in the village of Illmitz, in the Burgenland, Kracher is probably the most famous sweet wine producer
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Highlights: Sommer Blaufränkisch 2020 Leithaberg, Burgenland, Austria
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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