I was given a couple of bottles of Austrian sparkling wines to taste by a friend, who actually bought it at the winery. Now the name of Szigeti was only familiar to me as the family name of the famous Hungarian violinist Josef Szegeti, but then Austria and Hungary enjoyed close very ties as part of the same Austro-Hungarian Empire which was only dissolved with the separation of the two sovereignties in 1918.
This winery is located at a corner of the Neusiedlersee, a lake which is famous for producing Austria's noble rot sweet wines. That area is also very near the Hungarian border. The winery specializes in producing classical method sparkling wine, using only locally grown grapes for their base wine. This qualifies the wines as Osterreicher Sekt, which must by made by the classical method from grapes grown in Austria (see also Deutscher Sekt, but I have not yet found out if there is the equivalent of Deutscher Sekt bA, where the vineyard or Grosslage is specified).
PS Szigeti is a synonym of Furmint, one of the grapes used to make the famous Hungarian dessert wine Tokaji.
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