About this route
Route overview
The most authentic Viennese tradition in one comfortable day with a private chauffeur — Heurigen, the system of traditional family wine taverns where the owner serves only wine from his own vineyard from the current vintage, a system protected by an imperial decree of Joseph II from 1784. The vineyards on Vienna's slopes (Wiener Wein, the only vineyard area within the capital of an EU country, 612 ha) form part of the UNESCO Cultural Landscape as part of the Danube valley wine landscape. Standard plan: 11:00 hotel pickup in Vienna, 11:30 arrival in Grinzing (8 km, 30 min) — the most famous Heurigen village of Vienna in the 19th district of Doebling, traditional stone houses of the 18th-19th centuries with green wreaths above the doors (the sign of an open Heuriger), the cobbled lanes of Cobenzlgasse, Sandgasse and Himmelstrasse — Beethoven lived here and worked on the Third and Fourth Symphonies. 12:30 lunch at Heuriger Wolff (a family wine tavern since 1609, traditional Heurigen buffet — Brettljause with home-cured ham, Liptauer, Schweinsbraten, Topfenstrudel + tasting of six wines: young and aged Gruner Veltliner, Riesling, Gemischter Satz UNESCO 2013, Zweigelt, Sankt Laurent). 14:00 transfer to Kahlenberg (5 km via the Wiener Hoehenstrasse, 15 min) — a 484 m hill with a 360-degree panorama: Vienna, the Danube, the Marchfeld plain, the Carpathian foothills. The Battle of Vienna was fought here on 12 September 1683 — the monument to King Jan III Sobieski from 1883, the church of St. Joseph in Kahlenbergerdorf with Polish inscriptions and the museum of the Battle of Vienna. 15:30 transfer to Nussdorf (4 km, 15 min) — the smallest Heurigen village of Vienna on the very Danube bank, Schreiberhaus (the Mayer Schubert Heuriger, where Franz Schubert lived in the summer of 1816 and composed), a contrast tasting of young Gruner Veltliner vs Smaragd vs Hagelschaden 2019 + local Wiener Gin Manu (five distilled botanicals). 17:00 return to the hotel. EUR 580 Mercedes E-Class. Service runs 24/7 with flight tracking if pickup is at VIE.