Austrian wines: calling them everybody's friends is perhaps a bit disrespectful, but it is striking that basically everyone can get along with them. Full-bodied yet elegant, not too acidic and rarely too sweet; this certainly applies to Grüner Veltliners and other (white) wines for which the Austrian Danube basin is famous, from regions such as the Wachau, the Weinviertel and... Vienna! WINELIFE travelled to the capital to learn more about Austrian wine. Text: Karin Leeuwenhoek
You could compare the map of Austria to a reclining chicken leg, with the bone on the left. Can you picture it? In the bone are the Alps and that's where you come mainly to (après-) ski and snowboard. Viticulture is actually limited entirely to the rightmost part of the chicken bone, eastern Austria. And there you will find much more than just the important - and typically Austrian - grape varieties grüner veltliner and zweigelt. In the next WINELIFE, we take you to Burgenland and Styria in the southeast, totally different regions with their own specialities. Now we go to Vienna - a wine region an sich - and from there explore the wine-growing regions in the northeast, an der schönen blauen Donau.
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