Austrian Wine

Lower ABV This is very high-end Gruner with depth and richness and intensity that lacks only the price of the most famous wines in Austria. From perfectly ripe grapes grown in the famous Wagram Ried Rosenberg vineyard, this is... Read More

Wicked good dry Riesling here from a fine single vineyard in the heart of Austria's Wagram region. Smells great and tastes even better, with bold notes of just squeezed lime, ripe peach, crushed slate and a nice sprinkling... Read More

Tony Bauer is best known here for his whites, but his red wine success (in the very white wine region of Wagram) is one key reason he was Austria's Winemaker of the Year in 2017. This is sort of an Austrian Cotes du Rhone,... Read More

Lower ABV Another fine vintage for this intensely flavored, rich and zesty, take on Pinot Gris. It's jam-packed with aromas and flavors of spiced pear, golden apple, and ginger and wonderfully rich at just 13.0% alcohol. The... Read More

Lower ABV Leo Hillinger created Secco after an employee discovered she was battling breast cancer, and even today - more than 10 years later - a portion of the proceeds of his Secco sales go to breast cancer research. It's... Read More

Lower ABV Leo Hillinger created Secco after an employee discovered she was battling breast cancer, and even today - more than 10 years later - a portion of the proceeds of his Secco sales go to breast cancer research. It's... Read More

Lower ABV Another delicious vintage of this stylish Gruner Veltliner. Joe Bauer crafts this cuvee, named for his daughter, from vines growing on pure, calcium and clay-rich, loess soils on different parts of the hill. He picks... Read More

Lower ABV Gloriously dry, crisp, and DRY Riesling. It's full of classic, tangy, Riesling fruit flavors - early season peach, fresh tangerine, lime and lime zest - matched by aromatic fruit blossom and wet river stone minerality.... Read More

Perhaps our favorite dry Riesling in the shop today from Austria's greatest Riesling site: a stony basalt ridge first called Hellenstein (hell stone) because of its rocky soil and the way the sun burns like hell during the... Read More

Lower ABV If you were going to drink Austrian red wine for Thanksgiving, it would be Zweigelt, Austria’s own red grape that packs in plenty of fruit and fun. In the hands of winemaker Marlies Hanke, it turns out Zweigelt... Read More

Blends 60% Zweigelt, 30% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, all fermented in oak tanks and then aged in French oak barrels. Always one of Austria's very finest red wines. The 2018 has just arrived in the USA and we've... Read More

Organic/Bio More famous for her rich, award-winning, red wines, Christina Netzl made perhaps her best Gruner Veltliner ever in 2022. It's loaded with classic Gruner ripe apple and yellow stone fruit aromas and flavors, delivered... Read More

Lower ABV We've carried every vintage of this staggering value Grüner since the then 17 year-old Paul Direder presented us with his inaugural 2008. The 2022 is yet another winner with loads of minerality and fizzing with... Read More

Lower ABV Mathias Ruttenstock is one of the masters of Röschitz, the coolest portion of Austria’s Weinviertel, the world’s best GV growing area that also includes Kamptal, Wagram and Wachau. Mathias is a 4th generation... Read More

Expect the unexpected here, starting with the grapes - 30% Sauvignon Blanc and 70% Muskat Ottonel, a Muscat/Chasselas cross created in 1852 to deliver some of Muscat's exotic perfume with a bit less weight. The grapes grow... Read More

A fantastic introduction into Austria’s most important quality red wine varietal interpreted through the lens of modern winemaking and available at a terrific value price from our good friend, Austrian importer Klaus Wittauer.... Read More

The grape here is St Laurent, a native Austrian varietal that probably emerged as a cross of Pinot Noir and another local grape. St Laurent wines are always dark in color and have plenty of structure, but picking ripe and judicious... Read More

Organic/Bio With a unique combination of freshness and richness, this wine has been our go-to Thanksgiving white recommendation for 12 consecutive years. And the 2022 release is so very, very, delicious that you’ll want... Read More

Lower ABV Year-in, year-out, Doug’s favorite daily GV. And the 2022 is one of the best ever. As always there’s wonderful precision, clarity and minerality here along with generous pear, apple and hints of stone fruits... Read More

Organic/Bio A powerful, rich, and complex single-vineyard Grüner that delivers oodles of white pepper, pear and ripe apple aromas and flavors with a hint of butter and a salty, mineral, peppery bite on the long, palate-coating,... Read More

Five straight vintages, five straight 93 point ratings (4 from Wine Enthusiast, one from Suckling), and this 2021 will join the parade soon. Once again it lines up nicely against the “big names” of Kamptal like Pichler,... Read More

So, what happens when you take a great still wine – in this case, the 2017 Grüner Veltliner Kamptal– and give it a little fizz? Pure joy ensues! Steininger is Kamptal’s top producer of sparkling wines and... Read More

Lower ABV Best known for frothy sparkling wines and gutsy Gruner Veltliner, the Steininger family is quietly crushing it with Riesling these days. This is a lovely introduction to the purity, energy and perfect balance of ripe... Read More

Lower ABV Best known for frothy sparkling wines and gutsy Gruner Veltliner, the Steininger family is quietly crushing it with Riesling these days. This is a lovely introduction to the purity, energy and perfect balance of ripe... Read More

Given their fame for white and sparkling wines, it's easy to overlook the Steininger's lead red - this Zweigelt. But that would be a mistake, because the wine is crazy delicious and shows just how complex and fascinating... Read More