Top 100 wines of Weinviertel - Page 6

Discover the top 100 best wines of Weinviertel of Niederösterreich as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Weinviertel and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Discovering the wine region of Weinviertel

The wine region of Weinviertel is located in the region of Niederösterreich of Weinland of Austria. We currently count 299 estates and châteaux in the of Weinviertel, producing 1137 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Weinviertel go well with generally quite well with dishes .

Discover the grape variety: Zweigelt

Intraspecific crossing between the saint laurent and the limberger realized in 1922 and in Austria by Fritz Zweigelt (1888/1964) who named it rotburger. Very well known in Austria, it can be found in most Eastern countries, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, the United States, etc. In France, it is not very well known and yet this variety has interesting qualities when vinified as a single variety for both red and rosé wines. - Synonyms: rotburger, klosterneuburger, zweigelt blau, blauer-zweigelt in Germany, zweigeltrebe in Austria, Great Britain and the Czech Republic, blauer zwelgetrabe in Hungary, etc. (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here !)

Food and wine pairing with a wine of Weinviertel

wines from the region of Weinviertel go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of very simple spaghetti carbonara, quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese or buckwheat pancakes filled with egg, cheese and ham.

Organoleptic analysis of wine of Weinviertel

On the nose in the region of Weinviertel often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or spices and sometimes also flavors of oak, citrus fruit or black fruit. In the mouth in the region of Weinviertel is a with a nice freshness.

News from the vineyard of Weinviertel

Wine lover: The climate needs you!

Kimberly Nicholas PhD (@KA_Nicholas) is a sustainability scientist at Lund University, and author of Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World  Our 2020 research found that how fast we succeed at stopping warming will determine how much of the wine-growing regions and their characteristic varieties we love will remain in our lifetimes.  Changing to warmer-climate varieties can help limit losses, but there are limits to adaptation.  An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. ...

DWWA 2023 Platinum: The 97 point wines to seek out now

‘Platinum is very hard-fought’ says co-chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘It’s like something in the Premier League’, she adds, ‘but getting there means it’s going to be something special.’ The Decanter World Wine Awards judging process for Platinum begins after a meticulous first round of tasting, where all entries – this year a record 18,250 – are examined by regional specialists to determine Bronze, Silver, Gold or no award. All wines awarded 95 points (a Gold med ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...