A spectacular gathering of producers from Austria, Slovakia and Czechia showed off Blaufränkisch's elegant side at Newcomer Wines' Blau tasting. Above, the Nittnaus family's Gritschenberg vineyard near the town of Jois (credit: Julia Geiter).
When Austrians Daniela Pillhofer and Peter Honegger co-founded Newcomer Wines in 2014, it was the outcome of an idea that formed a year earlier when they were business students in London, trying, as they explain on their website, 'to come up with a project or idea that would allow us to put the curriculum from our studies into practice'. They decided to focus on importing and...