The terraced hills above this tiny hamlet have been coveted for growing grapes at least since the 13th century. This is not the obvious spot for a newcomer. Arriving in 2006, Erich Krutzler figured it ...

ON a July afternoon, lunch at the Denk Family vineyard’s heuriger — one of a number of hilltop village wine gardens in the Wachau Valley of Austria, about 50 miles west of Vienna — was served family ...

There’s a section of the Danube in Austria that seduces all comers. It’s a bucolic 22-mile stretch, where the river sashays through a valley whose slopes are strung like a harp with vineyards. A ...

Looking westward from Dürnstein, a village perched on a rocky pitch in Austria’s Wachau Valley, the mighty Danube etches a deep curve into an ancient landscape. Town and land look locked in time.

As dozens of river cruises dock daily at popular ports lining the Danube, ships are starting to look beyond the typical stops, stepping up their game when it comes to European excursions. The thousand ...

The Wachau, a little more than an hour’s drive from Vienna, is the darling of the wine world right now. Whites from the star producers of this tiny region, such as F.X. Pichler, Hirtzberger and Knoll, ...

Text description provided by the architects. Located near the edge of Austria’s Wachau region, where the Spitzer Graben valley opens towards the Waldviertel, is Vineyard Högl. The climate is on the ...

FJ Gritsch, the family-run Austrian winery, will leave the Wachau regional winegrowers’ association and instead classify its wines under the DAC pyramid of origin. The move will come into effect from ...