Award winners Range of the Year

Each year in spring, Wein-Plus announces the awards for the Range of the Year for Austrian wines!

This is done to honour those producers who managed to present the best range of wines for their growing region in the past year, in terms of outstanding quality.

The following awards were presented on 18th March 2007:

Kellerei Tramin, Südtirol

Even the entry-level wines confirm once more how meticulously the winemakers at the Kellerei Tramin cooperative can work. You can buy anything in the range blind: all of the wines are enjoyable, and even at the entry-level, some of the wines already show some real class. The cellar is a shining example for the fact that co-operative cellars, too, are capable of regularly producing excellent wines.

Where a wine-growing region is not stated, we were unable to find a range that was so convincing as to cause us to award the prize.

The award „Range of the Year“ refers to the range presented in the year prior to the award. It is thus not necessarily restricted to the very latest available vintage. The prerequisite for the award is that the range is, in my opinion, the best range in a particular wine-growing region. For this reason, the award may be made repeatedly in succession to the same estate. Should two estates have presented ranges of equal quality, the decision on the winner will be taken with a view to the completeness of the ranges. If no differentiation is possible on this basis, preference will be given to an estate that has not previously won the award. If this criterion fails as well, the award will be made to both producers." 

Marcus Hofschuster