Five Burgenland Winemakers Snap Up Top Awards!
Sweeping Success for Austria at International Sweet Wine Competition
(AWMB, December 2009) - For the third time, the international dessert wine competition Concorso internazionale di vini passiti was organized by the Accademia della muffa nobile – the Italian “Botrytis Academy” – and this year’s event proved outstandingly successful for Austria’s Burgenland sweet wines.
Out of the 585 dessert wines that were entered into the competition – these wines hail from Italy, Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Greece, Slovenia. South Africa and Switzerland – a total of nine of the top ten winning wines are from Austria’s Burgenland! The only non-Austrian wine in the top ten rankings, a Picolit from Friuli, captured 5th place.
The top ranked wines were produced by five winemakers from around the Neusiedlersee (Lake Neusiedl): Erwin Tinhof in Eisenstadt; Franz Heiss in Illmitz; Weingut Elfenhof in Rust; Hans & Christine Nittnaus in Gols, and Martin Pasler in Jois.
All of the competition’s board members are from the ASPI (Associazione della sommellerie professionale italiana), the Italian sommelier association, which is a part of the Association de la Sommellerie Internationale.
Further Information is available at: :
>>> Top-Ten (pdf, 19 kB)
www.concorsovinipassiti.it
www.muffanobile.it
Press information, December 2009
AWMB, Susanne Staggl
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