Austrian Airlines wins wine service award
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Austrian Airlines is celebrating a vintage performance after receiving a top honour for one of the wines served on-board its aircraft in the Business Traveller 2016 Cellars in the Sky Awards.
The Kracher Cuvée Beerenauslese 2012 wine received a silver award in the Best Business
Class Dessert/Fortified Wine category announced at the Business Travel Show in London.
Celebrating the award Christian Schindler, Lufthansa Group Regional Director for the UK, Ireland & Iceland said: “Within the Lufthansa Group we invest a huge amount of time and effort in our onboard service and this award is an acknowledgment of the standard we continually achieve. The vast majority of our customers remain loyal to the Lufthansa Group airlines because they still want and appreciate the full service that is included within the cost of their ticket.”
Now in their 30th year the annual Cellars in the Sky awards had more than 250 wines entered from 35 airlines. Head judge was Charles Metcalfe, co-chairman of the International Wine Challenge with Tim Atkin, Oz Clarke and Peter McCombie completing the panel.
Every wine was blind-tasted over two days in December 2015 and scored out of 100 with the judges bearing in mind what they will taste like at 30,000 feet in cabin conditions.
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