Austrian White Wines

Austria makes wonderful white wine, in all styles from bone dry to superbly sweet but sadly, there isn’t enough Austrian wine!

Austria is a country with a strong and historic wine-drinking culture, but it only produces as much wine as a middle-sized region of France, for example the Loire. Export isn’t necessarily a priority for many growers, but fortunately some of the top producers do want to see their wines on a world stage, where they have proved they can shine.

The vineyards all lie in the east of the country, around Vienna, downstream along the Danube to the west, and in a wide band south to Styria. Best known are white wines, particularly from Riesling - which here becomes a dry, high alcohol wine much more in the Alsace style than the German - and Gruner Veltliner, the latter grown in Austria since Roman times and now taking a third of the country’s vineyards. The top examples of both these varieties make very food-friendly wines, with the weight and structure to accompany rich or spicy dishes, and both can age superbly, with the best examples of the latter taking on the minerality and complexity of fine white Burgundy.

Austria is also the source of some of the greatest sweet wines in the world. Key to this is the Neuesiedlersee, an enormous shallow lake south-east of Vienna, which creates a perfect micro-climate for the development of noble rot in the surrounding vineyards through long, warm and dry autumns.

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Artisan, Chardonnay, Ried Kaiserberg, 2021

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Artisan, Chardonnay, Ried Kaiserberg, 2021

A single vineyard, barrel-fermented Chardonnay that easily rivals Cote d'Or Burgundy at the...

Style

Dry > Sweet

OriginAustria

RegionRied Kaiserberg

ColourWhite

ABV14%

Bottle75cl

CodeART921

GrapeChardonnay

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Sax, Riesling, Ried Steinmassl, Kamptal Reserve, 2021

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Sax, Riesling, Ried Steinmassl, Kamptal Reserve, 2021

A steep, stony vineyard on gneiss and mica schist. Very open perfume of lime zest, floral notes...

Style

Dry > Sweet

OriginAustria

RegionKamptal

ColourWhite

ABV13.5%

Bottle75cl

CodeSAX821

GrapeRiesling

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Artisan Wines, Bouvier Spatlëse, Neusiedlersee, Burgenland, 2021

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Artisan Wines, Bouvier Spatlëse, Neusiedlersee, Burgenland, 2021

Bouvier, perhaps a natural relation of Pinot Blanc, was only discovered c.1900. It’s largely...

Style

Dry > Sweet

OriginAustria

RegionBurgenland

ColourWhite

ABV10.5%

Bottle75cl

CodeART721

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Sax, Gruner Veltliner, Kamptal, 2021

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Sax, Gruner Veltliner, Kamptal, 2021

Lovely combination of the green appley freshness of the cooler 2021 vintage with the typical...

Style

Dry > Sweet

OriginAustria

RegionKamptal

ColourWhite

ABV12.5%

Bottle75cl

CodeSAX721

GrapeGruner Veltliner

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Sax, Fruhroter Veltliner, Niederosterreich, 2021

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Sax, Fruhroter Veltliner, Niederosterreich, 2021

Frühroter Veltliner (also known, confusingly, as Malvasier in Austria and Germany), a cross...

Style

Dry > Sweet

OriginAustria

RegionKamptal

ColourWhite

ABV12.5%

Bottle75cl

CodeSAX621

GrapeFruhroter Veltliner

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Sax, Riesling, Ried Loiserberg, Kamptal Reserve, 2020

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Sax, Riesling, Ried Loiserberg, Kamptal Reserve, 2020

From 50+ year old vines growing on meagre topsoil over slate in a high, south-east facing,...

Style

Dry > Sweet

OriginAustria

RegionKamptal

ColourWhite

ABV13.5%

Bottle75cl

CodeSAX420

GrapeRiesling

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