Wine region
Wachau
Wachau is a wine region in Austria, home to 36 wineries, known for Grüner Veltliner.
Wachau at a glance: known for Grüner Veltliner.
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Characteristic grapes
Wachau is best known for Grüner Veltliner.
Wine profile
483 distinct Wachau wines tracked, spanning the colours and styles below.
Representative Wachau wines
Selected from stable product-to-region relationships for diversity — not a claim that these are the region's best wines.
- Atzberg — Obere Steilterrassen Gruner Veltliner
- Atzberg — Steilterrassen Gruner Veltliner
- Berry Bros. & Rudd (Nikolaihof) — Weingeberge Gruner Veltliner Federspiel
- Domane Wachau — 1805 Rose
- Domane Wachau — Chardonnay 20Seventeen
- Domane Wachau — Classic Blauer Zweigelt
- Domane Wachau — Classic Gruner Veltliner Federspiel
- Domane Wachau — Classic Gruner Veltliner Smaragd
Austria wine designations
- DAC
- DAC means Districtus Austriae Controllatus and identifies regionally typical Austrian Qualitätswein from a legally defined wine-growing region.
- Landwein
- Landwein is the Austrian traditional category for wine with protected geographical indication from a named wine-growing region.
- Pradikatswein
- Prädikatswein is an Austrian protected-origin quality-wine category for wines meeting a specified ripeness or harvest-method Prädikat.
- Qualitatswein
- Qualitätswein is an Austrian wine with protected designation of origin from a specified wine-growing region.
Understanding the wine data
- Designation
- The protected-origin or administrative category associated with the wine, interpreted using country-aware rules. The same abbreviation can mean different things in different countries, so we only show the meaning approved for that country.
How this ranking is built
Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
FAQs
- Where is Wachau?
- Located in Lower Austria along the Danube , west of Vienna and Krems an der Donau , it is one of the westernmost wine producing regions in Austria with only a few scattered plantings in Tyrol being further west.
- Which grapes are associated with Wachau?
- Wachau is represented in the WhatDrink region dataset by Grüner Veltliner. Grape coverage reflects the products currently linked to the region and is not a complete legal planting register.
- What do the designation terms on Wachau wines mean?
- DAC: DAC means Districtus Austriae Controllatus and identifies regionally typical Austrian Qualitätswein from a legally defined wine-growing region. Landwein: Landwein is the Austrian traditional category for wine with protected geographical indication from a named wine-growing region. Pradikatswein: Prädikatswein is an Austrian protected-origin quality-wine category for wines meeting a specified ripeness or harvest-method Prädikat. Qualitatswein: Qualitätswein is an Austrian wine with protected designation of origin from a specified wine-growing region. These terms describe geographical or regulatory categories; they do not by themselves guarantee that one producer or bottle is better than another.
- How are wineries and producers selected for Wachau?
- Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
- How are representative Wachau wines selected?
- Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
- How much wine data does WhatDrink have for Wachau?
- The current regional catalogue contains 483 linked wines from 36 linked producers. Counts describe WhatDrink catalogue coverage and may change as source data is refreshed.
Regional data is aggregated from wine directory and product-catalogue sources; grape and style associations reflect characteristic varieties and may vary by producer and vintage.