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Gut Oggau Visit, August 2022
I might have mentioned previously that when we visited Moravia we flew into Vienna. The route worked best to minimise overall travel, and to avoid Stansted. It also afforded an opportunity to spend a couple of nights in Rust. This … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Austria, Austrian Wine, biodynamic wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Tourism, Wine Travel
Tagged Biodynamics at Gut Oggau, Burgenland, Gut Oggau, Gut Oggau Cecilia 2021, Gut Oggau Edmund 2019, Gut Oggau Maskerade, Neusiedlersee, Rösler Grape Variety, Roesler Grape Variety
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Mein Burgenland
There are always going to be places in the world where you just feel that little bit more at home, content, calm. Of course France is the country I know best, better than anywhere in the world. It’s the place … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Austrian Wine, biodynamic wine, Natural Wine, Neusiedlersee, Rust, Vienna, Wine, Wine Travel
Tagged Alexander Koppitsch, Alois Kracher, Birgit Braunstein, Burgenland, Christian Tschida, Claus Preisinger, Eduard Tscheppe, Georg Renner, Gerhard Kracher, Gols, Graupert Vines, Gut Oggau, Heidi Schrock, Helmuth Renner, Himmel Auf Erden, Illmitz, In A Hell Mood, Intergalactic Cuvée, Jois, Joiseph, Judith Beck, Kracher, Luka Zeichmann, Magna Mater Amphora Wines, Maria Koppitsch, Meinklang Farm, Neusiedl-am-See, Neusiedlersee, Newcomer Wines, Oggau, Purbach, Rennersistas, Roesler Grape Variety, Rust, Ruster Ausbruch, Stefanie Renner, Stephanie Tscheppe-Eselböck, Superglitzer, Susanne Renner, Tschida Brutal Magnum, Waiting for Tom, Weingut Koppitsch, Wild Wux
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Dynamic By Name, Dynamic By Nature
The UK is blessed with an almost uncountable number of wonderful wine merchants, and I love too many of them to be deemed a truly loyal customer. They range from tiny enterprises like Basket Press, Modal Wines and Nekter up … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, biodynamic wine, Greek Wine, Jura, Natural Wine, Savoie Wine, Swiss Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Biodynamic Bordeaux, Bordeaux Sans Sulfites, Bordeaux-Côtes-de-Francs, Burgenland Austria, Chateau Le Puy Bordeaux, Chiara de Iulis Pepe, Cosse Maisonneuve Cahors, Domaine de Beudon Fully, Domaine de la Tournelle Arbois, Domaine Giachino Savoie, Domaine Ligas Greece, Dynamic Vines, Dynamic Vines Portfolio Tasting 2020, Emidio Pepe, Emmanuel Giboulot Burgundy, Evelyne Clairet, Gut Oggau 2017s and 2018s, Gut Oggau Burgenland, Gut Oggau Family Reunion, Ktima Ligas Pella, La Tournelle Vin Jaune 2011, Matthieu Cosse, Modern Cahors, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 1980, Neusiedlersee, Pascal Clairet, Prieuré Saint-Christoph, Roditis, Roussette de Savoie, Sulphur Free Bordeaux, Swiss Wine, Uva Arbosiana, Valais Wine, Xinomavro
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Koppitsch Summer Update
I’ve been drinking a few of the new wines from Alexander Koppitsch recently, in fact three of them in only the last month. I thought rather than save them for my “Recent Wines” article, I’d write a short stand alone … Continue reading
Austria at the IOD
As with the Australia Day Tasting the other week, I’d not been to the annual Advantage Austria London tasting for a couple of years, but the 2018 event seemed to suggest a few of the newer, exciting, producers were attending alongside the … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Austrian Wine, Neusiedlersee, Rust, Vienna, Wachau, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wieninger, Wine Tastings
Tagged Advantage Austria Tasting, Arnold Holzer, Austria, Austrian Wine, Bernhard Ott, Blaufränkisch, Burgenland, Ebner-Ebenauer, Emmerich Knoll Wachau, Ernst Triebaumer, Eschenhof Holzer, Gerhard Kracher, Gruner Veltliner, Gunter & Regina Triebaumer, Herbert Tiebaumer, Leth Fels am Wagram, Marion Ebner, Martin Diwald, Neusiedlersee, Nikolaihof Wachau, Poysdorf, Roter Veltliner, Rust, Wagram, Weinhof Waldschutz, Weinviertel, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wieninger Vienna
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Gut Oggau Family Reunion
Many family reunions are fraught with tension, petty jealousies and conflict under the surface. This particular family reunion was the happiest I have ever attended. Gut Oggau is probably known to many who will read this article, but for those … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Austrian Wine, biodynamic wine, Natural Wine, Neusiedlersee, Wine, Wine Tastings
Tagged 2016 Vintage in Burgenland, Austrian Wine, Biodynamics in Austria, Brutal Wine Series, Burgenland, Dynamic Vines, Eduard Tscheppe-Eselböck, Gut Oggau, Gut Oggau Family Reunion 2016, Neusiedlersee, Oggau, Rösler Grape Variety, Stephanie Tscheppe-Eselböck
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All’s Gut in Oggau
Many wine lovers will have heard of Rust, a lovely old town on Austria’s Neusiedlersee, southeast of Vienna and bordering Hungary. If they don’t know it for its famous storks which swoop majestically over the town and breed on its chimneys, … Continue reading
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