Austria Flashcards
What is the KMW for Ausbruch? What is that in Oechsle?
30 KMW
150 Oechsle
The conversion rate is 1KMW = 5 degrees Oechsle
What are the permitted grapes for Ruster Ausbruch?
Any of the main white grapes grown in Rust, notably the following: Chardonnay Muskateller Sauvignon Blanc Pinot Blanc Welschriesling Furmint
Plus Pinot Noir on occasion.
What are all the KMW values for each pradikat of Austrian wine?
Qualitätswein: 15 KMW
Qualitätswein Sekt: 15 KMW
Kabinett Qualitätswein: 17 KMW
Spatlese Pradikatswein: 19 KMW
Auslese Prädikatswein: 21 KMW
Beerenauslese Prädikatswein: 25 KMW
Eiswein Prädikatswein: 25 KMW
Strohwein/Schilfwein Prädikatswein: 25 KMW
Ausbruch Prädikatswein: 30 KMW
Trockenbeerenauslese Prädikatswein: 30 KMW
What are the sugar levels for Trocken, Halbtrocken, Lieblich, and Sweet?
Trocken: max 9g/L
Halbrocken: 9-18g/L
Lieblich: 18-45g/L
Sweet: min 45g/L
What is the name of the great plain of eastern Austria?
Pannonian Plain
For what reason was diethylene glycol added to wines in 1985?
For the purpose of imitating botrytis unctuousness.
What are the 3 Weinbauregionen of Austria?
Weinland: covers Niederosterreich, Wien, and Burgenland
Steirerland: Covers Steiermark
Bergland: covers the rest of areas in the Austrian countryside
What is the term for field blends in Austria?
Gemischter Satz
Osterreicher is a grape more commonly known as?
Silvaner
Urgestein soil refers to what kind of soil in the Niederosterreich?
Primary hard soils of granite and gneiss.
What climatic influence is cause for more red wine being produced in Burgenland?
Warm air from Hungary along the Pannonian Plain.
What are the top 3 planted red grapes in Austria?
Zweigelt
Blaufrankisch
St. Laurent
What is the most planted white grape in Austria?
Gruner-Veltliner
What is the KMW and Oechsle levels for Kabinett in Austria?
17 KMW or 84 Oechsle
For dry Austrian wines, what DAC terms are used increasingly in place of Kabinett and Spätlese respectively?
Klassik and Selection
What region of Austria is home to the best botrytized dessert wines?
Burgenland
What is a banderole?
A neck band or capsule top featuring the red and white stripes of the national flag which guarantees that the wine has met federal production limits and quality limits. Also used (by way of a string of tiny digits) as a means for tracking the wine.
What is the minimum alcohol level for wines labeled Wein (formerly Tafelwein)?
min 8.5%
What is the PGI quality level of wine in Austria? What are the geographical designations used?
Landwein
One of the 3 broad Weinbauregionen (Weinland, Steirerland, Bergland)
What is the KMW system also known as?
Babo
What does the term Bergwein indicate and where are you most likely to see these wines?
Indicates wine made on slopes steeper than 26% though the term is seldom encountered.
Most likely to find this term used on a wine bottle from Wachau or Styria
What is the Austrian synonym for Pinot Noir?
Blauburgunder
What crossing led to Blauburger?
Blaufrankisch x Portugieser
What is the grape and appellation of Schilcher rosé?
Weststeiermark DAC
Blauer Wildbacher
What do Germans call Blaufrankisch?
Lemberger
What is the Bulgarian synonym for Blaufrankisch? Why?
Gamé, because for the longest time it was thought that this grape was Gamay.
What is the Hungarian synonym for Blaufranksich?
Kekfrankos
What are the top 3 appellations in Austria for Blaufrankisch?
Neusiedlersee DAC
Mittelburgenland DAC
Eisenberg DAC
What are the 5 DAC of Burgenland from North to South?
Neusiedlersee DAC Leithaberg DAC Rosalia DAC Mittelburgenland DAC Eisenberg DAC
Wines produced in the Neusiedlersee DAC are based on what grape?
Zweigelt
Rosalia DAC produces wines based on what two grapes?
Zweigelt and Blaufrankisch
What is Rosolo and Rosolita?
Both are wines produced by the drying of hand-harvested grapes.
Rosolo is dry and must be 15% abv
Rosalita is a sweet wine made using the same process.
Wines produced in the Mittelburgenland DAC are based on what grape?
Blaufrankisch
Which DAC of Burgenland is for the production of both red and white wines?
Leithaberg DAC
Nigl, Solomon-Undhof, and Christoph Hoch are producers in what region?
Kremstal DAC
What is the min abv or Kremstal DAC wines? With an indication of village and single vineyard? What about for Kremstal Reserve?
min 12%
min 12.5% for wines with an indication of village nad single vineyard
min 13% for Kamtal Reserve
What level of wine quality would you see bottles labeled by one of the three weinbauregion?
Landwein
Which Burgenland DAC does not produce Blaufrankisch-based red wines?
Neusiedlersee DAC
What are three producers of Heiligenstein wines?
Bründlmayer
Hirsch
Schloss Gobelsburg
What is the village of the Heiligenstein vineyard? DAC?
Zobing is the village; Kamptal is the DAC
What is the DAC of the Renner vineyard and what is the main grape of this vineyard?
Kamptal DAC; gruner-veltliner
What is the DAC of the Gaisberg vineyard and what is the top grape here? What are the villages that share it?
Kamptal DAC
Kammern, Zobing, and Strass
Riesling is the top grape.
What is the DAC of the Kranachberg vineyard? What is a top producer here and what is the top grape?
Sudsteiermark DAC
Sattlerhof
Sauvignon Blanc
What are the max alcohol levels and KMW for Steinfeder, Federspiel, and Smaragd in the Wachau?
Steinfeder: max 11.5%; 15 KMW
Federspiel: between 11.5-12.5%; 17 KMW
Smaragd: min 12.5%; 19 KMW
What crossing produced Zweigelt?
Blaufrankisch x St. Laurent
What are 3 top vineyards in Spitz?
Axpoint
Singerriedel
Setzberg
What is the village of Achleiten and Klaus?
Weissenkirchen
Which countries border the Niederosterreich?
Slovakia
Czech Republic
Carbonic maceration is not uncommon for this top red grape of Austria?
Zweigelt
Wine produced in the Spitzerberg is produced where? Main grape here?
Carnuntum, a limestone-rich remnant of the Carpathians where Blaufrankisch thrives.
What are two synonyms for Chardonnay in Austria?
Morillon
Feinburgunder
What was the first DAC established and when was this?
Weinviertel (2002)
Which DACs in the Niederosterreich are for exclusively Riesling and Gruner Veltliner?
Kamptal
Kremstal
Traisental
Wachau
Eisenberg is a DAC for what grape? What are the two quality designations for this and the requirements for each and what is the main soil type here?
Blaufrankisch
Klassik: 12.5% abv; may not be released until Sep 1 of the year following harvest
Reserve: 13% abv; must be aged in wood and may not be released until March 1 of the 2nd year following harvest
Iron-rich schist is the main soil type here.
In what year did the Traditionsweingüter Österreich begin to call top vineyard sites Erste Lage?
2010
What was Lenz Moser’s major contribution to viticulture in 1924?
He developed a vine training method called “Hochkultur” or “high culture” that trained vines high, about 1.25m off the ground on wires. This training method combined with planting vines with more spacing and at lower densities promoted adaptation to the mechanizations available at the time in the vineyard.
What is hochkultur?
Rudimentary vine training method invented by Lenz Moser in the 1920s where vines were trained high on stakes.
Why did the antifreeze scandal of 1985 happen?
A tax policy in the 1970s implemented no longer mandated cellar inspections so counterfeit and contraband operations proceeded as pressures for export rose and quality was compromised for quantity.
Diethylene glychol was added to wines to
What are the 6 DAC of the Niederosttereich?
Wachau DAC Kremstal DAC Kamptal DAC Weinviertel DAC Traisental DAC Carnuntum DAC
What are the 4 most influential climatic influences on the Wachau DAC?
Atlantic Ocean to the west
Pannonian plain to the east
Cool winds from the Waldviertel to the north
Danube River
True or False, all Wachau DAC wines must be harvested by hand?
True
Which two grapes may qualify for riedenwein in the Wachau DAC?
Grüner-Veltliner
Riesling
What is a riedenwein?
Single vineyard wine
What is the quality hierarchy for DAC wine?
Riedenwin or single vineyard wine is considered the top.
Ortswein or village wine is considered the middle tier below riedenwein.
Gebietswein or regional wines is considered the entry level for quality.
In the past 20 years, what were the best vintages for Austrian Gruner-Veltliner and Riesling?
2019 2015 2013 2006 2001
How was the 1999 vintage in Austria?
Perfect!
What were the top two vintages in Austria during the 1990s?
1999
1997
What is the worst vintage in Austria during the 1990s?
1996
From 2000-2020 what were the coolest vintages?
2004
2008
2010
2014
From 2000-2020 what were the warmest vintages?
2000
2003
2011
2018