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First things first: Grüner Veltliner is the name of a grape varietal used to make white wines, and this is how you say it (72.0 KB wav file). You might also hear folks refer to it simply as Grüner, or even as GruVe (kind of like "groovy"), which is a moniker I don't personally subscribe to. You may have noticed this wine popping up on more and more wine lists as it has become quite the darling ...

Generally speaking, the classifications used for Austrian wines represent different “quality designations”. They range from Tafelwein (table wine) to Trockenbeerenauslese (really sweet wine), with many in between. When describing why a wine falls into a certain category in terms of its technical sweetness, we will refer to its KMW. This is the amount of must sugar in percent of weight in a wine, which is measured in these units called KMW (Klosterneuburger Mostwaage). Folks more familiar with the Öchsle scale can get a close conversion by multiplying the KMW by ...