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Vienna Diary: Sturm (No Drang)
Here’s something I bet you haven’t tasted: Sturm. The word literally means “storm,” and in Austria it refers to the cloudy appearance of in-the-process-of-fermenting grapejuice. As the yeasts eat grape sugar, the liquid acquires a light effervescence and the beginnings of alcohol. In many wine-producing regions of Europe, the grape-pickers drink the juice from the harvest of previous days, and it is also bottled for a short period of time for sale to the public. The flavor changes from day to day as fermentation runs its course.
Sturm can be made from red or white grapes (in both cases the color is almost fluorescent), and it is only available during the September and October harvest season, hence the title on the flyer: Sturmzeit, meaning sturm time. I first drank sturm in Mainz, when I was on LSA. In Germany it is called federweisser, “feather white,” for its light, bubbly nature. Whatever its name, it is more than delicious.
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