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...blind tasting of white wines at London's Groucho Club late last year, seven out of the top 10 places were taken not by the usual suspects from France, California or South Africa but by Austrian Chardonnays and Gr?ner Veltliners?the crisp yet full-bodied wine grown mostly in the east of the country. In the U.S., people began talking the wines around 1999, when chef David Bouley opened Danube, a New York City restaurant inspired by Viennese cookery with a wine list long on Veltliners. Says Bruce Sanderson, senior editor of Wine Spectator: "Chefs and sommeliers in top restaurants...
...This year, Austria for the first time introduced a system of appellation of origin, clearly identifying individual wine-growing areas, most of them within easy reach of Vienna. Why aren't Austrian wines world-famous? After all, Austrians drink some 33 L of wine per person per year, well above Germany, whose wines are better known. The reason is that 80% of the annual production is consumed within the country. And you can expect to pay around $30 a bottle for a premium Austrian wine...
Though little-known and often forgotten over the years, the museum has accumulated an impressive collection of artwork, especially in Austrian Secession art, German expressionism, 1920s abstraction and Bauhaus art. Comprehensive collections of work by Joseph Beuys, Lyonel Feninger and Walter Gropius are among the finest in the world. Although it also maintains collections of classical Renaissance and Baroque work, the Busch-Reisinger has recently focused on obtaining more post-war and contemporary art from German-speaking Europe...
...major cities: Vienna: Zoom Children's Museum There's an interactive music and mathematics show on until February 2004. In the Zoomlab, kids make cartoon films or take a virtual walk in space. In the Zoomstudio they get in touch with their creativity with the help of young Austrian artists. Under-6s and their parents can explore undersea worlds in Zoomocean. Information: Museums Quarter, short walk from city center; www.mqw.at; www.kindermuseum.at. Children $6; adults $4 Beijing: Beijing Shadow Troupe Handcrafted 2-D leather puppets perform short plays to music among the curio sellers and cafés of Beijing...
...VIENNA: ZOOM CHILDREN'S MUSEUM There's an interactive music and mathematics show on until February 2004. In the Zoomlab, kids make cartoon films or take a virtual walk in space. In the Zoomstudio they get in touch with their creativity with the help of young Austrian artists. Under-6s and their parents can explore undersea worlds in Zoomocean. Information: Museums Quarter, short walk from city center; www.mqw.at; www.kindermuseum.at. Children $6; adults...