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Austria’s wines go from strength to strength
4 December 2019 by Rebecca in Classic Wine Library, Wine and spirits
The Austrian Wine Marketing Board is reporting that this year’s harvest was of excellent quality, with good volume. But many of today’s wine drinkers still have memories of Austrian wine that conjure up a different story. Overproduction, a wine industry stuck in a rut and, of course, a contamination scandal all served to create a poor image in the minds of consumers. (Read more)
The full story of the birthplace of wine – and how it was reborn
27 November 2019 by Rebecca in Classic Wine Library, Wine and spirits
Natural wines are currently in vogue. With wine producers from the Barossa Valley, to Bordeaux, to Napa experimenting with artisanal and minimum intervention winemaking, they have become the subject of much debate in wine publications and on social media. The methods used in creating such wines owe much to the traditional winemaking of the Republic of Georgia. (Read more)
Why Germany can now reclaim its place among the great wine producers
19 September 2019 by Rebecca in Classic Wine Library, Wine and spirits
At the end of the nineteenth century Germany’s wines, particularly its Rieslings, were among the most expensive and sought after in the world. Less than a century later, fuelled by reliance on technology, increasingly nonsensical wine laws and scandal involving adulterated wines, German wine had become a byword for sweetish plonk. (Read more)