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 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 Joe Bauer is pretty unpretentious guy. His cousin, Tony (Anton) Bauer, tends to get all the attention and recognition for his Wagram wines. Joe spends less time seeking recognition and leaves lots of time to play the... 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
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
Lower ABVYou might think “Austria,” “Rosé” and “Cabernet Sauvignon” don’t really come together to create a terrific, beat the heat, rosé. But one taste of this and you’ll... 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
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
Lower ABV In the Wachau's very own classification system, Smaragd is the top level, the region's best wines with the most alcohol, signature long corks, and the emerald lizard on the neck. Bergistal is a Smaragd blended... Read More
One of Martin Mittelbach's flagship bottlings, this was almost too intense to enjoy on first release. Now that a few years have passed, it's unfurled beautifully to delivery layers of ripe fruit flavor balanced perfectly... Read More
Lower ABV Actually a single vineyard wine from the site not far off the Danube River called Frauenweingarten in the Wachau. But it was resting in Tank #26 the first time importer Klaus Wittauer tasted it years ago. “I want... Read More
Lower ABV Actually a single vineyard wine from the site not far off the Danube River called Frauenweingarten in the Wachau. But it was resting in Tank #26 the first time importer Klaus Wittauer tasted it years ago. “I want... Read More
Martin Mittlebach pulls fruit from six different plots of the famed Loibenberg vineyard hillside to create this at once super-intense and super-delcious dry Riesling. Already delicious and a joy to drink, it will continue to improve... Read More
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