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What to Drink in Vienna

Austria is a source of excellent wine and good rich beers.
Vienna itself is in a wine-growing region surrounded by
vineyards which supply the Heurigen (see p200–201) in
villages on the edge of the city with young local wines.
Fine Austrian wines are found in good restaurants.
Austrian wine is mainly white but there are some
fantastic local red wines, especially from the Burgenland
and Carnuntum districts. Sweet Eiswein is made from
grapes left on the vines until the first frosts arrive,
concentrating their juices. Fruit brandies and schnapps,
many of them first class, are also produced. Krügel or half-litre tankard Seidl or standard Krügel or half-litre of Pfiff or eighth-litre
third-litre measure pale beer beer glass
Austrian Beers
Vienna has been producing great beers for
Beyond the villages north and west of Vienna lie centuries. Viennese lagers are bronze in colour
vineyards producing wines sold in Heurigen and sweet in flavour. They make an excellent
accompaniment to the hearty soups and stews
found in Beisln (see p201). The local Ottakring
brewery’s Gold Fassl is typical of the style,
although lighter Bavarian-type beers such as
Austrian Wines Weizengold are also commonly available. One of
The most popular wine in Austria’s most popular beers is Gösser, produced
Austria is Grüner Veltliner (see in Styria and found in the pubs and restaurants
below). Other wines include of Vienna. Speciality beers include the Styrian
superb dry Rieslings, especially Eggenberger Urbock 23°, one of the strongest
from the Wachau, and rich beers in the world. It is made by the Schloss
Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc) Eggenberg brewery founded in the 17th century.
from Burgenland. Red wines Riesling from the
tend to be soft and lush – Wachau can be light, Kaiser beer, a Weizengold The rich
robust reds come from or full bodied like the light beer wheat beer Gösser Spezial
Chardonnay from Styria and sparkling the Blaufränkisch grape Smaragd style.
wine from Lower Austria (see below).
Other Austrian Drinks
Austria offers a good range of non-alcoholic fruit
juices such as Himbeersaft (raspberry juice) or
Johannisbeersaft (blackcurrant juice). Almdudler Bierhof beer mat Null Komma Josef
(herbal lemonade) is also a speciality. Fruit is also advertising a pub in is a local alcohol-
the basis of many types of the Haarhof. free beer.
schnapps (sometimes called
Producer’s Brand). This powerful eau de Apricot
name St Laurent is a soft vie is distilled from berries schnaps
red wine; at its best such as juniper and rowan, as
it is rich and stylish.
Grape variety well as apricots (Marillen) and
Vintage quince (Quitten). It’s worth
paying the extra to sample
the exquisite fruit schnapps
Level of Producer’s produced by dedicated
ripeness address specialists. For a few
weeks in autumn,
Alcohol level fermenting grape juice,
Style (dry) Sturm, is available. Milky
in colour and quite
Quantity
Blaufränkisch is a sweet, it is more
Grüner Veltliner is a fresh, fruity white wine. It is quality local red – the alcoholic than its grape
widely grown in Austria and is usually made in a dry best comes from flavour suggests. The Wiener Rathauskeller is a popular restaurant with a variety of
style. It also makes excellent Eiswein. Burgenland. beers on the menu

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