Austrian wine is in the ascendancy. From the rolling landscapes of the Weinviertal, near Vienna, to mountainous Styria in the South, there are fascinating wines in every style. Grüner Veltliner is the white grape of the moment and deserves a good future in Britain, and Pfaffl and Domäne Wachau make good examples. The rugged hillsides of the Kamptal are home to the resurgent Schloss Gobelsburg, Willi Bründlmayer and Jurtschitsch. In the Wachau two very famous growers, Knoll and FX Pichler, produce superstar, steely Rieslings from the Danube’s cliff-hugging slopes. In hilly Styria you’ll find vineyards sprawled across plunging valleys, and racy whites from Polz. Neusiedlersee-Hügelland sits to the south-east of Vienna where excellent red wines are made by Esterházy. In the middle of the region is shallow Lake Neusiedl, 315 sq km of water, which creates perfect conditions for Noble Rot allowing Feiler-Artinger, Kracher and Helmut Lang to make sublime sweet wines. In neighbouring Hungary there are more great dessert wines from Tokaji near the Ukrainian border. Here the Royal Tokaji Wine Company produces glorious Aszú wines from long-classified vineyards such as Birsalmas and Nyulaszo. In England our favourite grape variety Madeleine Angevine, performs well in Shropshire at Wroxeter on the site of Roman Viroconium. Three Choirs, near Newent in Gloucestershire, is one of the larger English vineyards, making fruity, appealing wines.