Grafenegg single vineyard summit 2021 - Lower Austria

Simon reports back from this year's Austrian single vineyard summit - a massive tasting at Grafenegg castle which provides a unique opportunity to survey the current vintage and many of the region's top wineries.

Every year in the first week of September, I make an annual pilgrimage to Schloss Grafenegg - an eccentric baroque/Tudor Gothic mash up of a castle just a few minutes away from the village of Wagram. The event is the tasting of single vineyard wines from the Austrian Traditional Winemakers Association, otherwise known as the Österreichische Traditionswe…