Tmtroiano wrote:Can you give me some names of some good quality Austrian dessert/sweet wines.
Tom, I'm not much of a sticky-phile, but I was quite impressed with this Ausbruch (which I understand to be an Austrian dessert-wine category somewhere in the BA/TBA range).
Weinhaus Kaisergarten 1999 Neusiedlersee (Austria) Ausbruch - Bright-gold in color, with remarkable intense aromas that weave a scent-tapestry of butterscotch, first, as full and sweet as butterscotch Life Savers, quickly underpinned by an elusive, torrefied aroma that I suddenly recognize as black coffee, all giving way to very juicy golden raisins that carry over on the palate in a toothache-sweet, intense flavor, viscous and syrupy, but with a firm, "grippy" acidic structure to keep it from cloying. No obvious botrytis or volatile acidity, just clean, intense golden raisins and torrefied subtleties, perhaps a distant cousin to Tokaji which, after all, is made not far across the Austro-Hungarian border from Neuseidlersee. Amazing wine.