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Sat 03 Mar 2010Look to Austria for fine Riesling
WINE:Austrian Riesling is dry and filled with vivid fruit. It’s not cheap, but it’s perfect with pork, fish and shellfish
THE AUSTRIANS CAME to town recently in the form of a mini trade fair. Despite the economic downturn, it appears that sales of their wines are enjoying a healthy growth here in Ireland. Two of my favourite producers (Malat and Bründelmeyer) were present, but sadly they are not yet represented over here. Nonetheless, there were plenty of excellent dry whites, some good reds too, and, to finish off, some great dessert wines. As is usual with Austria, where the overall standard of wine making is very high, there were very few poor wines.
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