Hi, responsible drinkers of our
project,
This is to remind you to Vienna
and our meeting in the unfriendly cold January this year. Maybe you remember our visit of the
traditional Heuriger ‘Mayer am Pfarrplatz’ in the evening of the first day.
There you tasted our typical Viennese wine called ‘mixed set’ or in our
language ‘Gemischter Satz’.
In August this wine obtained the
DAC status, comparable with the Italian DOC title. Attached you will find the
official information about this event.
In our region the first wine
tastings have been started and we will visit our vineyards to taste the new
grapes which we expect to be very delicious caused by very hot summer months.
We encourage you to do the same
with kind regards, Petra
& Achim
Wiener Gemischter Satz Becomes DAC
August 19,
2013 - The Wiener
Gemischte Satz is one of Austria's
most traditional wines. And over the last ten years, this special field blend has
undergone a long-deserved renaissance, thanks to the strict quality policy and
new cultivation regulations mainly pushed by the group of Viennese winemakers
known as WienWein. The significance of Wiener Gemischter Satz as the showpiece
of Vienna's wine sector combined with the strong desire for a protected
designation of origin convinced the Regional Wine Committee of Vienna to apply
for DAC (Districtus Austriae Controllatus) status for the wine. Once
accepted and confirmed by the National Wine Committee, the official ordinance
was signed by Federal Minister Nikolaus Berlakovich. With this, Wiener
Gemischter Satz became Austria's
ninth DAC designation of origin. The first Wiener Gemischter Satz DAC wines to
be released are from the 2013 vintage. As a result of this new development, the
number of Austrian DACs now surpasses that of the non-DAC regions – seven –
whose wine origin profiles are still being worked on.
Press information/Austrian Wine
Marketing Board