July 18, 2016

In pursuit of purity

 With a continuing eye on Riesling this month, we caught up with the doyenne of Austrian wine, Willi Bründlmayer to talk favourite grapes and wine fads. Sophie Thorpe reports
At the turn of the millennium, Decanter magazine named Willi Bründlmayer as one of the 50 people most likely to change the face of the world of wine, while Jancis Robinson described him as “a beacon for Austrian wine”. He shrugs off such praise, saying: “I never tried to be a revolutionary. I just wanted to continue tradition”.