It’s finally here! Our first ever Wine Riot tasting – though the founding organization, Second Glass, has successfully been executing these tastings for years!  Tomorrow, we’re heading to Washington DC for the two tasting sessions, 1-5pm and 7-11pm, held at the Daughters of the Revolution Constitution Hall…we hope you are too! If you’re attending, here’s [...]

To celebrate the Austrian Wine Marketing Board’s 25th Anniversary, we compiled a video of testimonials from some top wine people. Check out what they had to say! Special thanks to: Maximilian Riedel: Riedel Terry Theise: Terry Theise Estate Selections Gregory dal Piaz: Snooth Wolfgang Ban: Seasonal Restaurant, Edi & the Wolf Stephen Bitterolf: Crush Wine [...]

On the fourth day of Austrian wine, my true love gave to me: Zweigelt! Only 89 years young, Zweigelt is yet another crowd-pleasing grape. This little number is a cross between Balufrankisch and St. Laurent, originally created in 1922 by Dr. Fritz Zweigelt, though it was birthed under another name. It wasn’t until the 1970′s [...]

The VIEVINUM Wine Fair 2010 in Vienna hosted the launch of an exciting new wine qualification offered by the Austrian Wine Academy, conducted in English, to commence in autumn of 2010. It offers a unique opportunity to participants to combine learning about international wines with practical first hand experience in viticulture and wine-making and all [...]