Two recent visits to Austria have confirmed to us what a great wine producing country this is. The area surrounding Neusiedlersee, a large shallow lake which runs into Hungary, is one of the world’s great dessert wine producing areas. Humid autumns are perfect for botrytised wines and severely cold winters for Eisweins. The dry whites have more in common with Alsace wines than those of Germany. The Wachau area, where the Danube passes through a gorge upstream of Vienna, is famed for Grüner Veltliner and Riesling but the latter is just a little too expensive for our tastes.