Blauburger is a red wine grape crossing of Blauer Portugieser and Blaufränkisch made in 1923 by Friedrich Zweigelt at the Klosterneuburg Institute in Austria where it is mostly found in Niederösterreich or Lower Austria. Also found in Hungary and Germany.

Wine style: Deep colour, light-bodied.

Vineyard area: 1,000 ha/2,470 acres by 2009 (Oxford Companion: 2015, p.85)

Bibliography

Oxford Companion to Wine 4th edition ed. Jancis Robinson MW and Julia Harding MW (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Giles MacDonogh, Austria, New Wines from the Old World (Osterreichischer Agrarverlag, 1997).

Giles MacDonogh, The Wine and Food of Austria (Mitchell Beazley, 1992), p.36.