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| | Nick Dobson Wines Austrian Sweet Wines |
 | | Austria has some of the best sweet wines on earth, from one of the most remarkable places in the world for botrytis-affected wine - the Neusiedlersee, a shallow warm steppe lake of about 60 square miles, located in the warmest part of Austria, straddling the Austro-Hungarian border. |
 | | The lake's micro-climate is key to the wine's production; the environment around it is flat, marshy, and humid, and nowhere else, with the possible exception of Hungary's Tokajhegyalja, does the noble rot, Botrytis Cinerea, attack grapes so reliably. |
 | | Here are made wonderful Auslese, Beerenauslese (BA), Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA), Schilfwein made from grapes dried on straw or reed beds, and obscure noble Ausbruch wines, which are exotic, full, luscious, and which go on forever. |
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