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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

171: Fritz Wieninger

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2014

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Fritz Wieninger runs the Wieninger winery in Vienna, Austria. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

0:05.1

I'm Levy Dalton.

0:06.1

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Fid. Fritz Vaniger on the show today. Hello sir how are you? I'm fine. Thank you.

0:28.8

Really wonderful to have you here. It's my pleasure. So these days you make wine from the Vienna region.

0:35.6

How did you how did your family settle there and what's the history?

0:39.5

Well I'm born into a family that had over a long time and many generations to do with wine,

0:48.0

but never in a big size.

0:50.0

My forefathers had smaller, why I'm producing,

0:55.0

their farms, more or less farms, with, actually we call it mixed farming system

1:00.0

where they had a little bit of agriculture,

1:02.0

they had a little bit of apple trees, they had a little bit of agriculture, they had a little bit of apple trees,

1:04.4

they had a little bit of cows and a few peaks, and most of their production was for themselves.

1:10.4

And a little bit of wine always was left over so they opened their living room

1:16.3

Invited some guests they bought some wine drank some wine had some fun and my family had some money to buy things they were not able to produce themselves like

1:25.8

shoes or clothes or whatever they needed. People will come to the house. Yeah people

1:30.2

came to the house it was either inside like a living room that was cleared and some tables were put in or it was in the garden. Like in the summertime, even today it's wonderful to sit at those hoi riggers, it's called today.

1:46.0

Sit outside, it's casual, no table clothes and you just sit down, you don't have to water food, you just sit down you don't have to water food you just

1:55.1

water a glass of wine maybe a bottle of water to it and chat, communicate and

2:00.7

yeah you drink a glass of wine maybe you get hungry then then you order

2:05.2

something to eat little snack maybe some cream cheese and black bread and

2:11.1

yeah with the food you get thirsty and with the wine you get

2:14.9

hungry and this is a nice way to spend an afternoon or even an evening.

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