Welcome to our Austrian Wine catalogue pages! We offer what we believe is the largest and best range of Austrian wines in the UK. Austria is quite simply one of the most, if not the most fascinating wine producing country in Europe today. Steeped in culture and history, it has a winegrowing heritage stretching back over three millennia. Austria produces some of the best wines in the world, of unparalleled quality, from grape varieties not grown elsewhere. Yet remarkably, her wines remain relatively unknown and under-represented in the UK. Here’s what you get from Austria:-

• A youthful modern winemaking culture where experimentation is everywhere and the resulting quality fantastic. An amazing blend of old and new, with baroque wine cellars housing state of the art wineries in picture-postcard villages.
• Good value crisp and vigorous dry whites at the low end of the market.
• World-class dry Rieslings
• World-class Sauvignon Blancs, in the style of better Loire Sauvignons, with plenty of minerals and sweet-grassy fruit.
• Amazing Pinot Blancs, with unrivalled depth, complexity and age-worthiness.
• Unique indigenous red grapes such as Zweigelt, Blaufränkisch and St. Laurent, from which wines in a wide range of styles from medium weight right through to as powerful and full-bodied you will find anywhere, all amazingly food-friendly, with wonderful flavors unlike those you may be used to from elsewhere.
• One of Europe’s most amazing white-wine grapes - Grüner Veltliner. Unique, adaptable, food-loving, and delicious.
• Some of the best dessert wines on earth – BA, TBA, Eiswein, Ausbruch, Shilfwein…..

Regions

We’ve selected wines from some of the best growers in the various winegrowing regions. Most of these are small family operations, offering wines of individuality, character, and outstanding quality.

There are 4 main winegrowing regions, subdivided into 18 different areas, each with its own specialities.  Wachau and Kremstal, in the Danube valley to the west of Vienna, offer world-class white wines; principally from Riesling and the indigenous Austrian Grüner Veltliner; neighbouring Traisental, south of the Danube, has some of the best values around. Moving east along the Danube towards Vienna, Kamptal with it's famous Heiligenstein vineyard, has top-notch whites and elegant reds. Further east, Wagram, previously known as Donauland, has an interesting geological quirk, where ice-age glaciers created a huge barrier of soil bordering the Danube for many kilometers, and today vineyards are planted along this rise - the so-called mighty "Wagram" which now gives it's name to ther region.Wagram's predominant variety is Grüner Veltliner, which here makes spicy sappy wines. Pinot Blanc is also grown, with some limited pr oduction of reds. Further east still, Vienna is the only European capital city to have important vineyards within its city limits. Wines grown here range from the simple, designed to be drunk in quantity at the Heurige, or wine bars, through to top quality reds and whites, with Grüner Veltliner dominating. North of Vienna, the Weinviertel is Austria's largest winegrowing region, making good value wines - whites principally from Grüner Veltliner and Welschriesling, and reds from Zweigelt and Blauer Portugieser. South-east of Vienna is Carnuntum, a region famed for it's big chunky reds. South of Vienna lies Thermenregion, which produces bold reds from both Austrian and international varieties, as well as whites from rare obscure indigenous grapes such as Zierfandler and Rotgipfler. Further south and east, of Vienna, and bordering Hungary, Burgenland offers beautifully made reds and whites, and a fine range of world class sweet dessert wines from the area around the Neusiedlersee- including Botrytis  wines such as Beerenausleses, Trockenbeerenausleses, the obscure noble Ausbruch from the free city of Rust on the Neusiedlersee, some Eiswein, and the rare Schilfwein - literally reed wine, a delectable sweet wine made from grapes dried on beds of reeds. Styria in the south offers fantastic whites from Pinot Blanc and Sauvignon Blanc amongst others, and the famous Schilcher rosé made from the local Blauer Wildbacher. As with our other ranges, we carefully select wines of character and charm from quality-conscious suppliers who are passionate about what they do.

Wines

Scroll down to see a list of regions - click on these (or on the links above) to go to the wine catalogue for each region.