Ep 520: The historic, urban wines of Vienna (yes, the city!) with Alex Zahel of Weingut Zahel

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Here’s something you probably didn’t know: Vienna is the only major city in the world where serious wine grown, with its own appellation, DAC Wien. In the green belt surrounding this very green city, wine grapes grow as they have since at least the Middle Ages. And it’s not negligible -- 582 ha/1438 acres. It’s also not crappy, tourist wine. It’s high quality, interesting wine that’s tasty and different. It’s become such a priority for Vienna and Austria that Viennese state law states that all existing vineyards must remain vineyards protecting valuable viticultural land from real estate speculation!

Standing side by side with the wine and with the Gemischter Satz blend is the unique tradition of the Heurige wine taverns. These are such an important part of Austria’s list of UNESCO intangible cultural heritage in 2019.

To discuss this amazing tradition that I bet you had little idea even existed, Alex Zahel joins. He's the 4th generation of the Zahel family and is the GM and winemaker of Zahel.

A great, eye opening show!

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0:47.6	Here's something you probably didn't know.
0:49.8	Vienna is the only major city in the world where serious wine grapes grow and it has its own
0:56.2	appellation in the green belt surrounding this very green city.
1:00.0	Wine grapes grow as they have since at least the Middle Ages and it's not
1:04.0	negligible. There's 582 hectares or 1,438 acres. It's also not
1:10.8	crappy tourist wine. It's high quality interesting wine that's tasty and
1:16.4	different and it's such a part of the culture that in 2008 the famed blend
1:21.6	that is so associated with this region
1:24.4	gamista shots was added to the list of Austrian products in the slow food
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