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Outstanding success for Austria at the WSA Wine Challenge Austrian Winemakers scoop up 21 medals

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28. April 2010

This success highlighted again the growing importance of Austrian wines on the highly competitve Singaporean and Southeast Asian winemarkets. 9 Austrian winemakers were awarded 1 x gold, 5 x silver and 15 x bronze!

The 4th edition of the Wine Challenge was organised on the occasion of this year's Food & Hotel Asia.

The panel of judges was made up of key wine influencers & decision makers from airlines, reputable hotel chains, supermarket retailing chains and distributors of food & drinks, representing accurate characteristics of the Asian palate.

One gold medal was awarded to Weingut Elfenhof for their sweet wine "Ruster Ausbruch Kristall".

Weingut R&A Pfaffl, Weingut Esterházy and Weingut Ewald Gruber won one silver and bronze medal each.

Bioweing Johannes Zillinger snatched up 1 silver and 5 bronze, Skoff Winetrading 1 silver and 3 bronze, Schloss Gobelsburg 2 bronze and Bert Gmeiner Leithaberg and Erzherzog Johann Weine 1 bronze each.

All winning wines were featured in a special showcase at the Food & Hotel Asia and were available for tasting.

For further details please contact the Austrian Embassy - Commercial Section

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17. February 2012

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