Appellation · Austria
Vienna
The only capital city in the world with a significant commercial vineyard inside its boundaries, and its own field-blend appellation.
Locally: Wien
Dry, medium-bodied, fresh white with mixed orchard fruit and a lively acidity. Uncomplicated by design and better than that sounds.
About Vienna
Vienna has around 600 hectares of vineyard inside the city limits, which makes it unique among world capitals as a commercial wine producer rather than a curiosity.
Its DAC protects a genuinely old practice: the Gemischter Satz, a field blend of at least three white varieties interplanted in one vineyard and picked, pressed and fermented together.
That was once how most European vineyards were planted — mixed planting spread the risk of a variety failing in a given year — and Vienna is the only place to have written it into an appellation.
Most of the wine is drunk in Heurigen, the seasonal taverns where growers sell their own new wine.
What the name means
- Legal name
- Wiener Gemischter Satz DAC
- Type
- Districtus Austriae Controllatus (DAC)
- Set by
- Österreichische Weinmarketing / national wine law
- Recognised
- 2013
- Regulates
- Origin, plus grape varieties, maximum yields, minimum ageing.
An origin-typical designation: the wine must be made from the varieties and in the style the district is known for, in a defined regional / village / single-vineyard hierarchy. Austrian wines from the same place that fall outside the DAC style are labelled under the wider federal state instead.
Requires a field blend: at least three white varieties interplanted in the same vineyard, harvested and vinified together, with no single variety exceeding 50%.
Grapes
Wines from here
Rules worth knowing
Confirmed in the EU register
Wien is registered as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), file number PDO-AT-A0235, protected at EU level since 1996.
Article 107 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Specification published: Official Journal C 298, 8.9.2020 · Official Journal
Only the rules that change what to expect in the glass or on the label. WineHQ does not reproduce production specifications, and each entry carries the date it was last checked because appellation rules change.
The designation is confirmed above. WineHQ has not read this appellation’s production specification, so it publishes no yields, ageing minima or permitted-variety lists for it — those come from the document linked above, not from a summary of it.
What to eat, and how to serve it
Derived from this region’s signature styles. Each is listed separately, because a region does not have one serving temperature.
Where to go next
Places worth trying if you like this one — neighbours, rivals, and the obvious step across.
- Wagram — A broad loess terrace north of the Danube, and the source of Austria’s fullest, most powerful Grüner Veltliner.
- Kremstal — A Danube DAC between the Wachau and Kamptal, with both loess and primary-rock vineyards.
- Burgenland — Austria’s red-wine heartland and the source of its botrytised sweet wines around Lake Neusiedl.
Approximate centroid: 48.25°, 16.35°. WineHQ stores coordinates only where it has them, and does not estimate boundaries it has not sourced.
Sources
Sources consulted
- Austrian Wine Marketing Board — Österreich Wein Marketing