'Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide No. 7' - a departure from the past

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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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Austrian wine exports show a slight increase in value

The current difficult economic situation is also impacting Austria’s wine exports. Over the last year, the value of exports rose only slightly to €238.2 million (+2.7%). Read more

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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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VieVinum 2024

All eyes are on Vienna! The largest showcase of Austrian wine and perhaps the most elegant wine trade fair in the world, VieVinum take place from 25 to 27 May 2024. Read more

ProWein 2024

From 10 to 12 March, Austrian Wine had its biggest international appearance of the year at ProWein in Düsseldorf. Wineries from all over Austria presented wines from all Austrian regions at the most important wine fair in Europe. Read more

For the 7th, completely revised edition of Robert Parker's perennially best-selling Wine Buyer's Guide, the entire six-headed team of the Wine Advocate was mobilized in order to generate for the most part entirely new text.

This picture shows the Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide — © Austrian Wine

David Schildknecht authored among others the majority of chapters on wines of France, as well as those concerning Austria and Germany, which each for the first time received an extensive chapter of their own. Schildknecht offers an introduction to the relevant wine laws, sine styles, history, vintage characteristics, and terroir, as well as countless not entirely uncontroversial recommendations for consumers, a ranking of the estates, and descriptions and wine ratings for close to a hundred leading producers in Germany as well as Austria.