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Frank Ward

Frank Ward is an English-born wine taster and consultant established in the UK. He has written numerous articles on wine and food in Sweden, USA (Connoisseur New York) and the UK (The European), and is author of two books on the restaurant scene in Sweden.
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A Taste of Vienna – Twenty Five Years after

Posted by Frank Ward on February 28, 2016

February 2016. A quarter-century ago, in 1990, I visited the Wieninger winery in Vienna and tasted some wines. I was then the wine correspondent of “The European”.Twenty-five vintages later, in late 2015, I went back to taste some more. The wines were good all those years ago; now they’re not only better but there are a lot more of them. The winery is still run by Fritz Wieninger. When I first met him he had 10.5 hectares of vines.[….]

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