"st.helier" > wrote:

> Was reading somewhere that the 2005 vintage in Austria was
> something of a disaster -

Absolutely not.

> volumes down 20-25% in some regions.

If you call that a desaster, then it is one.

But: better growers, selecting ever more severe, will produce even
less of their top wines, but the wines are extrenmely promising, I
was told. Haven't tasted any 2005s save for a couple of red(!)
"Primus pannonikus" nouveaux. If one discounts the distance I try
to hold in face of such vinous baby murdering, they weren't even
bad.)

M.