Austria's Single Vineyard Summit 2024 – Styria

Lackner-Tinnacher Welles Vineyard

Sauvignon Blanc for the ages – or at least the cellar. The final report in our five-part series on the ÖTW’s annual tasting marathon. See previous articles on Grüner Veltlinerthe redsRiesling and other whites and the Wachau. Above, Katharina Tinnacher's Welles vineyard, source of one of the most impressive wines in the tasting.

If there was one takeaway from this year’s Styrian tastings at the Single Vineyard Summit, it’s that it pays to age Styrian Sauvignon Blanc.

Styria is not part of the ÖTW but the group invited the 12 growers that make up the...