A Weekend Of Wine, Birds, Buck and Sunshine !

A Burgenland weekend for Wine lovers.

Our village sure knows how to go all out. As you know, we live in the midst of one of Burgenland's premier wine regions and in almost every direction we can see the vineyards. The village and surrounds boast about 35 Vintners.

It's quite groovy, because we never run out of good wine...It's almost ethereal to buy wine at source. The only thing to trump that feeling would be to make your own and you know, just put the wine jug under the barrel's tap !

This whole last weekend, our village was crammed full of wine lovers. Wine tastings were available everywhere and I was chuffed to see how important our village featured on the wine calendar.

With great forethought, the village had hired a few mini-buses and created designated bus stops for the wine-tourists. A shuttle service between wine estates ! What great fun the busdriver must have had towards the end of each day. In vino veritas and all that...

All the Kellerstoeckl ( here is a link to some for rent ), holiday flats and B&B's were let out and suddenly our little village had a touch of Viennese flair ! Walking my morning route I stumbled across a few new faces. Runners dressed in urban sports gear and cyclists that were kitted out with labels, sunglasses and enough attitude for a Tour de Anything. Definitely not our normal jeans, sandals and t-shirt lot.

One young couple who especially came here because our wines are held in such high esteem were the most ingenious. They set off with a rucksack and sturdy shoes mid-morning and walked to all the different vineyards. No drinking and driving for them ! Just wonderful.

Mother nature showed her approval of this event because the sun shone until yesterday lunchtime. The temperature hovered around 25 degrees celcius for most of the weekend. With the sunshine and warmth, all the calling cards of our rural bliss showed themselves...

• Rabbits the size of grown cats hopping merrily across the roads or just in and out of the forest.
• Energetic and boysterous buck were executing almost gazelle like bounces in the fields.
• Pheasants were playing chicken with the suddenly hectic traffic...
• All the birds were on top form and started their concerts early and I am sure that a lot of woozy headed folk wished they would stop.

A glass or two of great wine, nature and sunshine...what more does one need ?

Biggi

Just a quick glance over some of our vineyards.