Some good quality wines from Austria

Austrian wine still struggles a little in Ireland and some of the blame for this can be traced to one lapse of judgement in the 1980s.

The Austrian wine scandal of 1985 involved some cheaper bulk liebfraumilch-style wines being adulterated with diethylene glycol (also used in anti freeze) to add weight and sweetness.

This had a catastrophic effect on the industry despite the fact that nobody was made ill.