Wine from the Hills, with Hand & Heart © Flora P
Wine from the hills, with hand & heart © Flora P. The Steiermark’s winegrowers are poster children for TABLE OF CONTENTS steep slope viticulture, but also models of courageous reimagining. Seizing a historic opportunity, they conquered Austria with novel wine styles. Now, a new generation is blazing its own stylistic trails, reclaiming international renown for a region once known as the innovation hub of European viticulture. Three winegrowing regions, 4 Origin »Steiermark« 37 innumerable terroirs David Schildknecht Prelude: DAC 39 The short story about a long time 8 Gebietswein, the regional wines 40 Ortswein, the ace 41 Concerning the origins of 11 Ortswein: SüdsteiermarkDAC 42 great wines Ortswein: Vulkanland SteiermarkDAC 46 Ortswein: WeststeiermarkDAC 50 »Terroir Steiermark« 12 Riedenwein: a perspective 53 Geology & foundations 14 The taste of the Steiermark 56 The basis of soils 16 The palette of grape varieties 21 THE STEIERMARK PRÄDIKAT 58 Characteristic features of the climate 22 From the hills, with hand & heart The three winegrowing 26 Facts & figures 60 regions of the Steiermark Wine estates & traditional taverns 61 Origin »Steiermark« SüdsteiermarkDAC 27 Voices of the press 61 Vulkanland SteiermarkDAC 31 WeststeiermarkDAC 35 References 62 Contact 63 The Steiermark is a WINEGROWING REGION of great Three wine regions, importance, both for Austria and for Europe. Although industry strongly moulded the form and substance of innumerable terroirs the Steiermark in the middle of the 20th century and still dominates the ALPINE VALLEYS, the federal state itself has never abandoned its agrarian tradition, but has remained a region with a self-aware and SELF- ASSURED AGRICULTURAL SECTOR. The Steiermark is the second-greatest in area of Austria’s nine federal states, and is bordered to the south by Slovenia.
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