A sweet wine also requires a sense of terroir
The value and virtues of sweet wines from the town of Rust are legendary – like its winegrowers’ pride and desire for freedom. Even three hundred years ago, they were able to extract a charter for Rust from the Habsburg monarchs, giving it the status of an independent free city – for which they paid in Ausbruch: 30,000 litres of it! The unique climatic situation on the northwest banks of Lake Neusiedl still remains today the greatest asset of Rust’s winegrowers. No wonder that they fiercely defend the unique position of their sweet wine terroir – and their position has been confirmed now by the lawmakers.
And behind the successful Ausbruch stands a woman
Winegrower Heidi Schröck has always been one of the driving forces behind Ruster Ausbruch. In 1991 she founded the Cercle Ruster Ausbruch together with winemaker colleagues in order to promote the image of Ruster Ausbruch. And recently she has been heard from with a new campaign, one that promotes sweet wines (and particularly Ausbruch) as table-companions to fine dining. Out of the dessert-category now and moving over to the spicy dishes: to smoked fish or grilled fowl, with curry or lamb ragout; Heidi Schröck loves discovering new combinatorial possibilities – for her two new Ruster Ausbruchs from the fantastic 2014 vintage as well:
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