The Winery Stift Altenburg is one of the best wineries to follow in Niederösterreich.. It offers 7 wines for sale in of Niederösterreich to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Stift Altenburg wines in Niederösterreich among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Stift Altenburg wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Stift Altenburg wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Stift Altenburg wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or lamb such as recipes of beef fillet in a crust, duck breast with honey and raspberry vinegar or roast lamb with thyme.
Niederösterreich, or Lower Austria, is a wine region in the Northeast of Austria bordering Slovakia and the Czech Republic. It is the country's largest wine region, both geographically and in terms of production.
There are around 28,000 hectares (69,000 acres) of vineyards. These are responsible for roughly half of Austria's total wine output.
Niederösterreich includes eight of Austria's 16 official wine regions, each contributing to its wide variety of wine styles and types. A variety of different Grape varieties are grown in the region, but Grüner Veltliner and Riesling dominate. Pinot Noir and Sankt-Laurent, are all planted throughout the region, making wines of high quality, despite being excluded from the DAC classifications.
Five official Districtus Austriae Controllatus (DAC) wines can be found here.
Wines made in these zones from grapes other than those specified are labelled as Niederösterreich.
- Carnuntum: White wine from Chardonnay, Weissburgunder or Grüner Veltliner. Red wine from Blaufränkisch or Zweigelt
- Kamptal, Kremstal, Traisental: White wines from Grüner Veltliner or Riesling
- Weinviertel: Grüner Veltliner only
The highly regarded region of Wachau also Lies within Niederösterreich, and is home to many of the country's top wine estates. It has its own classification system, carrying Steinfeder, Federspiel or Smaragd labels.
How Winery Stift Altenburg wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of pizza cone, papillotes of simple salmon steaks or mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Stift Altenburg. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Stift Altenburg. is a with a nice freshness.
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 !)
How Winery Stift Altenburg wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of imene's tunisian ojja or brownies with nuts.
Close to the sensation of unctuousness, said of a wine that gives the impression of having the consistency of a syrup.
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Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.
The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...
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 ...
The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...
Close to the sensation of unctuousness, said of a wine that gives the impression of having the consistency of a syrup.
