2. Vienna Woods Wine Tour – Wines, Vines & Good Times!
⭐️ RATING: 5/5 Stars | ⏳ TOUR LENGTH: 7-9 hours | ✅ Book it!
This Vienna wine tour is the closest thing you’ll get to experiencing Vienna Wine Hiking Day. The tour takes place in the Vienna Woods, also known as Wienerwald, a forested highland region located to the west of Vienna.
You’ll kick off this tour at Wien Mitte Train Station where you’ll meet your guide and board a train bound for the Vienna Woods. The journey is approximately 30 minutes.
It’s important to note this wine tour has two different itineraries depending on whether you visit in summer or winter.
During the summer months, you’ll arrive in Baden, a town that was once Beethoven’s favourite country retreat. Here you explore the village and hike along forest trails to a lookout point that offers panoramic views of the Vienna Basin and Vienna Woods. From there, you’ll enter the vineyards for an open-air wine tasting.
If you take this tour during the winter months, the train will bring you directly to the vineyards of the Thermal Region, also known as Thermenregion. Here you’ll learn about the monks who started making wine in this region during the Middle Ages and there will also be a wine tasting. This is the only part of the tour that varies according to the seasons.
Next, you’ll continue to the wine village of Gumpoldskirchen, where you’ll have lunch at a traditional Austrian wine tavern (the cost of lunch is not included in the tour price). A local winemaker will lead the wine tastings and you’ll have the opportunity to ask all your wine-making questions.
This tour ends with a train journey back to Vienna.
PROS:
- Wienerwald wine tour
- Hike in the Vienna Woods (summer only)
- Small group tour allows for a more intimate experience
“Fantastic day trip from start to finish. Appeals to everyone, I’m a wine enthusiast, so I was in my element. Scenery was beautiful, lunch was exceptional, wine tasting was intimate and delightful. Would love to do this again in the late summer / early autumn when the bars are open in the vineyards.” -Rebecca H
Review from Viator
