Ausbruch 
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Background
Updated: 20th March 2006
Traditional Austrian sweet wine, once made by adding freshly picked botrytis-effected (or ‘nobly rotten’) grapes, but today almost entirely based on botrytised fruit. Ausbruch has many similarities to ‘Tokaji’, another golden wine produced on the Hungarian shore of the Neusiedlersee, and its sweetness is between Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese on the Austrian Prädikat scale (a very similar sweetness scale to that in Germany).
Ausbruch is a speciality of the Burgenland region of Austria, where it is produced on the shores of the Neusiedlersee - a shallow lake around which misty, damp conditions encourage the presence of botrytis spores.
