Vienna Wine Tours & Heuriger
Vienna is the only major capital with real vineyards inside its limits, and it drinks the wine in its Heuriger taverns – rustic wine gardens in Grinzing and Nussdorf serving the grower’s own new wine with a cold buffet – while the Wachau’s great whites are a day trip up the Danube. Compare the top-rated Vienna wine experiences below, then read our notes.
Heuriger and wine tastings in Vienna
Formats: Heuriger wine-tavern tours in the vineyard villages with buffet and new wine; city wine tastings with a sommelier; vineyard walks on the Nussberg; day trips to the Wachau and Kamptal with tastings.
What you taste: Wiener Gemischter Satz, the city’s own field-blend white, plus Grüner Veltliner and Riesling, and the young Heuriger wine straight from the grower, with cold cuts and spreads.
Price: 40 to 65 dollars for a Heuriger or city tasting; 90 to 150 for a Wachau day trip with transport and lunch.
Wine inside the city
Vienna is unique among great capitals in having working vineyards within the city limits – some 600 hectares on the slopes of the Nussberg and Kahlenberg. Its signature is the Wiener Gemischter Satz, a “mixed set” field blend of several grapes grown and picked together in one vineyard, now a protected DAC and a fresh, complex, food-friendly white found nowhere else in this form.
The Heuriger
The place to drink it is the Heuriger, the traditional wine tavern in the vineyard villages of Grinzing, Nussdorf, Neustift and Stammersdorf. A green branch (a Buschen) over the door means the grower’s new wine is open; you drink it young by the glass or jug and eat from a cold buffet of roast meats, spreads and bread. It is informal, cheap and deeply Viennese, and a guided tour takes you to the authentic ones rather than the coach-tour versions.
The Wachau day trip
For Austria’s grandest whites, the Wachau is about an hour up the Danube, and day trips pair its terraced Grüner Veltliner and Riesling with the river scenery. Pair a wine day with a Vienna food tour and the cooking classes for the full table.
How we choose
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FAQ about Vienna Wine Tours & Heuriger
Frequently asked questions
Does Vienna really have vineyards in the city?
Yes - around 600 hectares within the city limits, the only major capital where wine is grown commercially at this scale, tasted in the Heuriger taverns.
What is a Heuriger?
A wine tavern where a grower sells their own new wine with a cold buffet; a green branch over the door signals it is open. Grinzing and Nussdorf are the classic villages.
What is Wiener Gemischter Satz?
Vienna’s own protected wine: a field blend of several grape varieties grown and harvested together in one vineyard, fresh and complex.