As we settled into the modern, yet comfortable, confines of Roland Velich’s sitting area (tasting room) of his house in the small town of Eisenstadt - about 30 minutes south of Vienna – we realized this wouldn’t be a typical wine tasting.  Velich is the wine maker/visionary for Moric and a driving force behind a renaissance in Austrian wine.
Moving seamlessly between German and English, Velich passionately described his approach to wine making and the purpose of the Moric project.  The primary goal, he explained, is to see if blaufrankisch is able …