About AWE

AustrianWineEstates
A GermanWineEstates Affiliate
9 Chester Road
Darien, CT 06820 USA

The Website

AustrianWineEstates is owned, designed and operated by Eric H. Litchfield, a wine professional and German and Austrian wine expert with 36 years of experience importing and promoting the wines of Germany and Austria. He was also on the Advisory Board of Wines of Germany, formerly known as the German Wine Information Bureau, the exclusive U.S. office of the Deutsches Weininstitut. Eric has recently been inducted into the Ordre des Compagnons du Beaujolais, an esteemed French organization dedicated to the wines of the Beaujolais region in France

The website is devoted to a portfolio of fine wine estates from Austria which was created by Mr. Litchfield, whose philosophy allows the wine producer and nature to harmonize equally, utilizing sustainable agriculture, organic and biodynamic farming to reach the purest expression of grape varietal, micro-climate and terroir, yielding wines of supreme balance and elegance. It is the pleasure of the author to provide interesting and current information to those interested in these fine wine estates of Austria.