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Austrian wines have had their ups and downs. Grapes were planted there in 500 B.C. by Celtish invaders, destroyed in A.D. 300 by barbarian hordes who didn't appreciate a good glass of wine and restored in 700 by Charlemagne, who did. Then, in 1985, production dropped by 80 percent after a scandal in which a few winemakers illegally sweetened their wares with an illegal additive.
Today, happy to say, Austrian wines are hip. In with the "in" crowd. The country's signature wine, gruner veltliner, is so popular with young U.S. sophisticates who love it but can't pronounce it that one company has put out a brand simply called "Grooner." Wine shop owners and restaurant sommeliers "hand sell" it to customers ready to try something new.See the full content of this document
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Get Hip to Austrian Wines
The Pfaffl family is riding the wave. In 1978 Roman and Adelheid Pfaffl took over a farm near Vienna with just two acres of grapes...
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