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Wine
7 Elements

Austria’s wines are now highly prized both by wine experts and wine lovers all around the world. There is a distinctive tension common to all these wines which should be emphasised, based on seven factors. Read more

Strategy for origin marketing

The category Qualitätswein stands at the centre of the Austrian wine industry's marketing strategy. Read more

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Producers &
Market
Producers

Our database contains detailed information on around 4,000 producers that bottle wine themselves. You can access specific information by using the search fields provided. Read more

Wines

Around 20,000 vintners cultivate grapevines and make their own wines at all levels of quality, and for all occasions. Use our database to find your favourite. Read more

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Press &
Media
Scandinavia favours environmentally friendly wines

Environmentally friendly produced and marketed Austrian wines are highly sought after in Scandinavian markets. Read more

Gallery

The Austrian winegrowing country from its best side. Images that make you want more, available to view and download. Read more

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Events
Wine Summit 2019

The biennial Wine Summit, to which up to 200 wine professionals, mainly journalists, from all over the world will be invited, will take place from 22nd to 27th May AND from 25th to 30th May. Read more

SALON

Having become Austria's most demanding wine challenge, the SALON Austrian Wine Awards was first held in 1988 and is now regarded as the Austrian national wine championship. Read more

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AWMB &
Partners
The Team

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Prädikat Levels

Spätlese

Minimum must-weight of 19° KMW, from fully ripe grapes

Auslese

Minimum must weight of 21° KMW, a Spätlese from carefully selected grapes

Beerenauslese

Minimum must weight of 25° KMW, from overripe grapes and / or grapes with noble rot

Eiswein

Minimum must weight of 25° KMW, from grapes that were frozen when harvested and pressed

Trockenbeerenauslese

Minimum must weight of 30° KMW, Beerenauslese mostly from extremely shrunken noble rot grapes. For Trockenbeerenauslesen produced in the Free City of Rust, the term “Ausbruch” may also be used; correspondingly, the product designation “Ausbruch” may only be used in connexion with the geographical indication “Rust”.

Strohwein

Strohwein or Schilfwein is a wine made from fully ripened, sweet grapes that have been dried on mats of straw (Stroh), or reeds (Schilf), or else by air suspension, for a minimum of three months before vinification. The grapes must have a minimum must weight of 25° KMW. If the grapes' must weight reaches a minimum of 30° KMW upon a drying period of at least two months, then vinification can begin at that point.

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