Aggressive Austrian
12 August 2024
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Prager Riesling Smaragd Ried Klaus 2022
Category: Austria
Not a punishment wine
6 May 2014
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When you see on the label of an Austrian wine that it has Cabernet in it (even if diluted with Zweigelt and Merlot) and it is 14.5% you think …
An awfully agreeable Austrian
26 June 2013
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Austrian wines… Phew! One thing is sure and that is that the pork in cream sauce-noshers like them as heroically proportioned as their lunch servings. Certainly with whites, delicate, …
Confused GruV with roast chicken
27 April 2011
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When deciding on a wine to pop with roast chicken my thoughts immediately turn to white Burgundy. However, Editor Daniel suggested we try something different so I looked through …
Clark Foyster Wines portfolio tasting – the bleeding edge of vinous cool
30 September 2010
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When I received the list of wines to be shown at the Clark Foyster portfolio tasting I wished I had a hermetically sealed room to hide in to avoid …
Delicious Chablis and tooth-rottingly sweet Austrian Trockenbeerenauslese
4 September 2010
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Chablis can be such a great wine – when they sing they are expressions of Chardonnay at its purest and most thrilling. 2005 was a great vintage and tonight’s …
Two Mac Forbes wonders and a tired Austrian Ausbruch
31 March 2010
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At the moment no one in Australian is making better Riesling or Pinot Noir than Mac Forbes. A real treat to try these two. Bit of a shame the …
My first Blaufrankisch in a while
31 January 2010
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When we were putting together our affordable selection of wines for drinking this stood out as being worth snapping up thanks to recommendations from both Eric Asimov and that …
Some thoughts on Austrian Blaufrankisch (and a rant about Pinot)
17 January 2010
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Eric Asimov of the New York Times has a brief but interesting report on some Austrian Blaufrankisch wines. He makes the very good point, which I agree with whole-heartedly, …
This wine is totally fascinating
5 August 2009
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I remember, many years ago, an Austrian wine tasting in which Gruner Veltliner was compared to Chardonnay from other countries. I didn’t think that it was really a reasonable …