Two weeks ahead of the official start of the Lower Austrian State Exhibition “Bread & Wine”, my friend Anna and I can feel the air in the wine capital city Poysdorf buzzing with excitement. All the last touches and finishes are taking place down to the very smiles in the faces of the people we meet! From the workers in the streets to the “sparkling wine captain” Maximilian Riegelhofer, whose grapes make up the famous Schlumberger sparkling wine and who spontaneously takes us to the “world’s largest sparkling wine flute” – Everybody welcomes us here during our visit to the Weinviertel wine growing district.
Visiting the wine city Poysdorf is part of our magic stay at the Castle Hotel Mailberg, only 40 minutes’ drive from where we are staying in Mailberg. “Tried & tested” is what we can now tell you about the “high north” of Lower Austria close to the Czech border, ahead of the Lower Austrian State Exhibition’s famous opening ceremony: It is well worth to come out here!
Art, Cellar Lanes & Coffeehouses …
… the atmosphere on this special day of spring in the Weinviertel district is almost “too good to be true”. Everywhere we look, nature (and people) are embracing the light: Blossoms, flowers, happiness & pleasure catch our very eye. It is during these moments of soaking up the sun with my first outdoor caffee latte of the season, that I am reminded of how much I love the spring. And it would not be the same without the preceding cold of winter, knowing to appreciate the reassuring heat of the sun. Beautiful!
Poysdorf and all its artistic wine bottles in the streets and cellar lanes, its “wildly romantic cellar lanes” and modern cafés with their sun decks draw us in in no time. It is only one and a half hours southwest of here that I grew up, in the Lower Austrian Kamptal wine district, and yet I had to become a TRAVEL BLOGGER in order to come here and appreciate it all. Knowledge, and consciousness, takes time to mature – like the wine resting in the wine barrels & bottles!