Weinviertel

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The Waschberg Zone extends from the Waschberg near Stockerau through the Leiser Berge, Staatz, and Falkenstein into southern Moravia, and some 17 million years ago gave rise to piercement cliffs such as the isolated limestone cone of the Staatzer Klippe.
• The Molasse Zone in the western Weinviertel consists predominantly of loose sedimentary rocks — clays, silts, sands, gravels, and in places also limestones — deposited during the Cenozoic era.
• The Flysch Zone forms two ridge systems around the Korneuburg Basin, in which slumped sediments consolidated over time into sandstone and clay-marl.
• The Weinviertel belongs to the Pannonian climate zone, which is thermally continental and, in terms of moisture, tends toward oceanic influence.
• The Weinviertel has always been Austria's most important growing region for Grüner Veltliner, with the characteristic aromatic profile shaped above all by loess soils in combination with the climatically driven diurnal temperature variation.

• The predominantly family-run winery structure enables the transmission of a traditional winemaking style across generations, which contributes to the pronounced character of Grüner Veltliner.

• The wine displays a pale yellow to yellow-green colour, a typical varietal bouquet, and a fruity, spicy, and peppery palate with no oak character or botrytis note.
• The peppery flavour note of Grüner Veltliner is found mainly in the Weinviertel growing region.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

All appellations in Austria

Sources

• Specification (EUR-Lex, single document)
• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-AT-A0206
• Official trade body site — Regionales Weinkomitee Weinviertel