At what is arguably the country’s most prestigious tasting event, wine experts from around the world gather to taste the new vintage of all the Erste Lage (Premier Cru) wines, before they are released on the market. Organised by Österreichische Traditionsweingüter, this year’s Single Vineyard Summit will feature another first: all the wines presented during the 7-10 September tasting will be certified organic, biodynamic or Sustainable Austria. But this pioneering group of Austrian wineries has more news to reveal…
Sweet or Dry — Or Flabby, by Dan Berger
Decades ago, a German winemaker pulled a label-less bottle of riesling from a fabric bag, pulled the cork, and asked me to taste it. It was a time when most imported German rieslings were sweet and the winemaker asked me,



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