Outbreak (wine)

Advanced stage of Botrytis cinerea : the stronger the natural shrinkage, the more concentrated the non-aqueous components of the berries. Basis for Ausbruch wines with high must weights.

The outbreak is a high quality sweet wine from Austria (→ Viticulture in Austria ). According to the Austrian Wine Law , the term refers to a predicate wine that comes exclusively from noble rotten berries (i.e. from broken , overripe, partly burst berries) and whose must has a must weight of at least 138 ° Oechsle - that is 27 ° KMW . Since 2016, the term outbreak has been limited to the area of the free town of Rust .

The outbreak is common in Burgenland . For example, the Ruster Ausbruch is known , which was determined by the Cercle Ruster Ausbruch for its members with a minimum must weight of 30 ° KMW. The grape varieties Welschriesling , Chardonnay , Pinot Blanc and Traminer are mostly used for the outbreak .

The outbreak is also frequently found as a quality level in neighboring regions in Hungary , for example the Kompolter outbreak. Also Tokaj as Tokaji Aszú , Tokaji aszúeszencia and Tokaji Eszencia are outbreak wines.

Individual evidence

^ Johann Werfring: Rust: Is DAC outbreak coming? In: "Weinherbst 2012", pp. 12-13 (= supplement to the "Wiener Zeitung" from October 27, 2012)

literature

Klaus Egle: The Austrian Wine. Verlag Pichler, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85431-403-5 .
Helmut Romé: The great wines of Austria. Verlag Seewald, Stuttgart-Degerloch 1979, ISBN 3-512-00558-6 .
Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon . Hallwag, Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .
Johann Werfring: Rust: Is there a DAC outbreak? In: “Weinherbst 2012”, pp. 12–13 (= supplement to the “Wiener Zeitung” from October 27, 2012).

[1] Johann Werfring: Rust: Is DAC outbreak coming? In: "Weinherbst 2012", pp. 12-13 (= supplement to the "Wiener Zeitung" from October 27, 2012)