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The former vineyard Danube country now bears the name of a soil survey, which represented during the Ice Age, the northern bank of the Danube. It is divided into two zones: one, far more significant, is located north of the Danube River, bounded on the west by the region Kamp, north through the Wagram and the east by the wine district.

The terms of surface area considerably larger quantity runs south of the Danube to Klosterneuburg (after it is designated as a wholesale basis) and the Vienna Stadgrenze out features, but only over about 350 hectares of vineyards, while there are north of the Danube almost 2500th The meters of the high layers of loess Wagram form an ideal base for Grüner Veltliner, which here is cultivated on more than half of the vines. Almost no other grape variety on loess feels so good. He gives the wines a very fine flavor and minerality, which complements the typical peppery of Veltliner even if not stressed, and even the very mature specimens usually quite characteristic citrus notes, which are found not only in the Wagram for wines from cultured on loess white varieties .

Despite this rather eindeutlgen stamping ground covered here by no means the Veltliner from monotonous. They range from thin, slender and animating up to powerful, complex and long lasting. In addition to the main places Wagramer the area proportions of the other varieties grown are quite limited. is still around 10% of the vineyards Müller-Thurgau, which is related to but hardly on the labels. Significantly more important for bottled wine of superior quality has been since the two being the most important red variety, but the Riesling and the rare Red Veltliner. Apart from still wine is at Wagram primarily in Klosterneuburg local wineries also produce plenty of champagne.

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The Traisental formerly belonged to the former vineyard Danube country and in 1995 received its name and status. It is thus the youngest wine region in Austria – and one of the oldest. Pre-Roman times has been operating here and archaeological evidence suggests viticulture. continue to The Traisental