Wine of the Day, No. 817

A scintillating riesling from Austria.

Wine grapes were grown in the middle-European country of Austria some 4,000 years ago. The Romans legions, who built roads and planted vines everywhere they marched, encouraged the growth of a wine industry in Austria (as that country came to be named) through the first centuries of the Roman Empire’s expansion. The grape that dominates the country’s wi…