Austria

Question 1

What are Austria’s 4 main wine regions?

Answer 1

Niederösterreich
Wein (Vienna)
Burgenland
Styria

Question 2

What are the 3 most important subregions of Niederösterreich?

Answer 2

Wachau
Kamptal
Kremstal

Question 3

Austria’s easternmost winegrowing area borders what country?

Answer 3

Hungary

Question 4

Austria’s wine growing regions are in which half of the country?:

western half
eastern half

Answer 4

Eastern Half

Question 5

What is Austria’s largest wine growing region?

Answer 5

Niederösterreich

Question 6

What are the climate moderators for Austria’s wine growing regions?

Answer 6

The Danube River and its tribuaries

Question 7

What are the white grapes of Austria?

Answer 7

Grüner Veltliner

Riesling

Question 8

What distinctive aroma can you find on most Grüner Veltliners?

Answer 8

White pepper

Question 9

What are the red grapes of Austria?

Answer 9

Blaufränkisch
St.-Laurent (also spelled Sankt Laurent)
Zweigelt

Question 10

What are the parent grapes of Zweigelt?

Answer 10

Blaufränkisch

St.-Laurent

Question 11

Austrian wines WITH geographic indication have 4 classification levels:

Answer 11

Landwein (PGI)
Qualitätswein (PDO)
Districtus Austriae Controllatus (DAC)
Prädikatswein (PDO)

Question 12

Austrian Landwein is:

usually exported
seldom exported

Answer 12

Seldom exported

Landwein wines are Austrians’ everyday table wines.

Question 13

What is the DAC?

Answer 13

A subset of Qualitätswein that focsuses on dry wines. It also only allows certain grapes, like Riesling and Grüner Veltliner, to be classified as DAC.

Question 14

Austrian prädikatswein focuses on what style of wine?

Answer 14

Sweet styles, such as Eiswein, BA and TBA.

Question 15

What does Niederösterreich translate to in English?

Answer 15

Lower Austria

Question 16

What wine style does Niederösterreich focus on?

Answer 16

White wines made from Riesling and Grüner Veltliner that are dry and unoaked of high quality.

Question 17

What river (and Danube tributary) flows through Kremstal?

Answer 17

Krems River

Question 18

What river (and Danube tributary) flows through Kamptal?

Answer 18

Kamp River

Question 19

What river flows through Wachau?

Answer 19

Danube River

Question 20

Which Niederösterriech subregion is known for having most of the top producers and vineyards?

Answer 20

Wachau

Question 21

Wachau classifies its dry wines with its own classification system.

What are those 3 classification levels?

Answer 21

Steinfeder (lightest)
Federspiel
Smaragd (richest)

Question 22

What is Steinfeder named after?

Answer 22

A grass that grows in Wachau’s vineyards

Question 23

What is Steinfeder’s maximum abv?

Answer 23

11.5%

This is a very light bodied wine.

Question 24

What is Federspiel’s abv range?

Answer 24

11.5% - 12.5%

Medium bodied wine.

Question 25

What is Smaragd’s minimum abv?

Answer 25

12.5%

Fullest body and richest texture of the three, intense and dry.

Question 26

What is Smaragd wine named after?

Answer 26

A brightly colored, emerald lizard found in Wachau’s vineyards.

Question 27

Smaragd wines can sometimes be affected by which rot?

Answer 27

Botrytis

Question 28

Graped destined for Smaragd are harvested at ___ ripeness.

Answer 28

Spätlese ripeness