Austria Flashcards
Most planted grape in Austria?
Gruner Veltliner with 30% acreage
Austrian Synonyms for Chardonnay
Feinburgunder
Morillon
Zweigelt’s parents
Blaufrankish
St Laurent
Blauburger’s Parents
Blaufrankish and Blauer Portugieser
What are the red/white stripes on Austrian bottles and what do they mean?
Banderole
Indicates Qualitatswein
What’s the min Alc % for Austrian Pradikatswein?
5%
Is Kabinett Qualitatswein or Pradikatswein?
Qualitatswein
No chaptalization or Sussreserve
Where does straw wein fit and requirements
Grapes dried at least three months
25 KMW, same as Eiswein and Beerenauslese
Where is one likely to find Ausbruch?
Rust in Neusiedlersee-Hügelland in Burgenland
What does “Ried” indicate on an Austrian label?
Top site,
Vineyards listed as village first vineyard second as in Germany. “Ried” replaces the name of the village in top sites at old school estates
What are the two categories of Qualitatswein?
Pradikatswein and Districtus Austriae Controllatus (later is for dry wine)
Where is Langenois? Three vineyards nearby
Langenois is in the Kamptal,
Dechant (Dee Chant)
Lamm (Lamb)
Heligenstein (Hooligen in hell on stein)
What was Wagram formerly known as and when was it changed?
Donauland
2007
Donaly Sucking Ram that’s wagging tail in denver driveway
What is Sturm? austria
A half fermented wine drunk in Vienna during harvest
What is Heuriger? austria
a nouveau wine drunk in Viennese taverns
What is the Neusidlersee and what does it do?
A shallow lake in between Neusedlersee-Hugelland, Mittelburgenland, Leithaberg
Where is Emmerich Knoll?
Wachau
What is schilcher?
Racy Weststeiermark rose made from Blauer Wildbacher
Name DACs of Styria
NONE SUCKA
Name DACs of Wachau
Wachau is a subregion of Niederosterreich with no further subregions under it, it’s not a DAC
What Austrian laws changed on 2016?
Sekt was defined
Burgenland Qualitatswein now only says “Burgenland” other four regions are only bottled as DAC
Sudburgenland becomes grosslagen
Sud-Oststeiermark renamed Vulkanland Steiermark
Vineyard designation MUST contain the word “Reid”
Kamp/Krem/Traisental have Region/Village/Single Vineyard designations connected to alcohol
Ausbruch must be TBA from Rust
Legally define Austrian Sekt
Must be classic, reserve, or grand reserve
What is Austria’s version of PDO?
g.U. geschutzle Ursprungsbezeichung
Where is Rudi Pichler located?
Wosendorf, Wachau, Between Joching and Spitz
What’s the history of Domain Wachau?
Co-op in Durnstein. Changed name to Wachau in 2008 after a change in winemaker/director. Quality went down in early 2000’s due to departure of directors.
Director Roman Horvath MW and winemaker Heinz Frischengruber brought on in 2005
Geography change from Wachau to Kremstal/Kamptal
Wachau has steep slopes, Kremstal peters out but there are some to the east of Langenlois protecting south facing vineyards from cold
Soil is similar, loess
What is Austria’s largest sub region and first DAC?
Weinviertel
Corner of driveway between Wagram and Carnuntum
Turtle in wine bottle, white pepper everywhere
Where will you find Spatrot-Rotigfler and what is it?
Thermenregion
It is a blend of Rotgipfler and Zierfandler (white grapes)
South of Vienna
In middle of driveway, car on nun’s tummy
A spatula in front holding Rotweiler
Reagan (gipper) holding flower (Spatrot-Rotgipler) also fondaling zoro (Zierfandler)
Which region specializes in Blaufrankish only
Mittelburgenland
in garage Just to right of door into house
“Middle” with burgundy map in
Frank yelling “BLAU!”
First DAC to allow red/white wines
Leithaberg
Right side of garage on wall a lithe iceberg
Just west of Nuesiedlersee lake
Blaufrankisch synonyms
Lemberger in Germany
Kekfrankos in Hungary
Village/Producer in Nuesiedlersee know for TBA
Alois Kracher in Illmitz
Just inside garage to right, mittens on Illmatic NAZ album, Cracker shaped like lois
Giant noose
Minimum KMW for Ausbruch
Process of making it
30 KMW
Similar is Tokaij
Botrytis affected must is added to less concentrated must
Where might you find sauvignon blanc in Austria?
Sudsteiermark especially from Manfred Tement
Where might you find Blauer Wildbacher in Austria?
Weststeiermark, makes a rose called schilcher
Back left corner of garage
Mark’s face on westie
Bach, wild ooking with leaves in hair, holding rose, but it’s empty zilch (schilcher)
DACs of Steiermark
Schilcherland DAC in Weststeiermark
How many DACs are there? Most recent?
10
Schilcherland 2017
Weinviertel beets
Largest subzone and first DAC of Austria Niederosterriech No botrytis or wood, distinctly peppery min 12% alcohol Has reserve category, min 13% and allows botrytis Gruner Veltliner only
Traisental beets
DAC
SE of Kamptal, Kremstal, Wachau
Classic or reserve (12/13%)
Gruner or Riesling
Kamptal beets
DAC
Riesling or Gruner
Langenlois
What are vineyards called in Austria
Ried
What is gohfler?
Gneiss, in Wachau
Describe Gneiss
Coarse grained rock
19 kmw is how many Oeschle
95 (Auslese in Rheingau)
Name a vineyard in Weissenkirchen
Wachau, Achtleiten
Where is Achtlein
Vineyard in Weissenkirchen, Wachau
3 finest estates according to guild somm
FX Pichler
Prager
Emerich Knoll
Wachau Codex is?
Founding principles of Vinea Wachau (established ripeness levels)
No additives and chaptalization
Where might you find Roter Veltliner and what is it
Red version of Gruner but vinified white
Specialty of Wagram
Pannonian refers to
Plains around Niederosterrich
Kekfrankos syn
Lemberger (Germany) Blaufrankisch (Austria)
