OK, so I'm in New York with my then 18-year-old who was looking at colleges, and instead of taking him for the usual pizza or whatever I thought I'd buy him a nice meal. The place I took him had Heidi's `04 Muscat, so we ordered it. I figured the staff could taste whatever we didn't finish. Because Max isn't any sort of wine drinker - not yet anyway. So imagine my surprise when the bottle was tipped over to pour us the last drops. Dude, you really held your own, I said to him. So? he replied. Well I've never seen you drink so much wine, I insisted. That's because they don't always taste this good! he sensibly countered. Muscat isn't a grape variety in Austria; those are either Gelber Muskateller (a.k.a. Muscat a Petit Grains) or the more come-hither Muscat-Ottonel. Heidi uses Muscat as a brand-name for a spicy wine which in `06 consists of 40% Gelber Muskateller, 20% of Ottonel and 40% Sauvignon Blanc. A multi-faceted spicy aroma and a lively and precise palate; juicy and salivating and again th - Heidi Schrock Muscat 2007 750ml -