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The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Cheesemaking

We’ve teamed up with Europe Home of Cheese: Austrian Cheese to share all the beauty—and allll the cheese—that Austria has to offer. Austria’s mountainous landscape is home to 100% GMO-free dairy production, which makes for some truly iconic and undenia…

Austria is known for many things—Mozart, meticulously crafted cakes, hills so beautiful they make Julie Andrews burst into song. However, one of the country's true hidden gems is its cheese culture. Despite the popularity of neighboring alpine cheesemaking regions, Austrian cheese wasn’t available in other European countries until the 1990s, and didn’t come to the U.S. until recently. For centuries, the only way to try Austria’s unique, flavorful cheeses was to go to Austria. Fortunately for us all, that is starting to change.

Sekt Is the Wine of 2022

Scan the sparkling wine list at any restaurant and you’ll see a few familiar names: Champagne, Prosecco, Cava. But you probably won’t find one of Europe’s lesser known, food-friendly, and affordably-priced wines: Sekt, a sparkling wine from Germany and…

Though it may not be there yet, Sekt should be one of the first wines that comes to mind when you’re planning any cheers-worthy activity. As the weather warms up, Sekt—with its enormous range of styles and price points—is versatile enough to suit everything from a birthday brunch to a wedding toast. While Sekt hasn’t been widely exported outside Germany and Austria in the past, it’s increasingly making its way to wine shops around the world, and its under-the-radar profile means that hype hasn’t yet inflated its price.