Austria Flashcards
What percentage of Austria’s wine production is white?
66% of Austria’s wine production is white.
What percentage of Austria’s wine production is Grüner Veltliner?
33% of Austria’s wine production is Grüner Veltliner.
What wines are DACs in Austria?
The highest level of quality wines, can only be used for specified grape varieties in delineated regions.
What are Heurigen?
Heurigen are seasonal wine taverns in Vienna.
What is required for an Austrian wine to be a Prädikatswein?
It must be Spätlese or above (19° KMW)
What are Austria’s wine classification categories?
Wein
Landwein (PGI wines)
PDO Wines:
Qualitätswein
Prädikatswein
DAC
What is required for an Austrian wine to be a Qualitätswein?
It must have a minimum 15° KMW (sweetness level) from a quality wine region.
What are the Austrian Prädikatswein categories?
Spätlese
Auslese
Beerenauslese
Eiswein
Schilfwein
Trockenbeerenauslese
What is Strohwein?
A dried-grape wine that uses grapes of at least BA ripeness, air dried on mats of straw, or hung on strings, much like the recioto wines of Veneto. Makes a sweet wine.
What is a Bergwein in Austria?
A mountain wine, grown on mountain slopes with at least a 26% gradient.
What is Schilfwein?
A dried-grape wine that uses grapes of at least BA ripeness, air dried on mats of reeds, or hung on strings, much like the recioto wines of Veneto. Makes a sweet wine.
How many varieties are approved for Wiener Gemischter Satz DAC?
15, including both traditional Austrian varieties as well as international varieties.
What are Austria’s three Landwein regions?
Weinland Österreich
Steierland
Bergland
What are the sub-regions of Steiermark?
Südsteiermark
Vulkanland
Weststeiermark
What is Vulkanland?
A sub-region of Steiermark.
What percentage of grapes in Austria are grown in Steiermark?
Less than 10%