LIVING IN MISTELBACH

The last of the summer wine…in Mailberg

November 7th, 2010

Walking in this time of the year in the wine district reminds me of the BBC series “The last of the summer wine” when I was in my 20ties and still living in Belgium. It was a comedy about old man having their little adventures in the autumn of their years on the romantic english countryside. Receiving the BBC programs in original was a pleasant way to learn english. Sometimes I think that this great opportunity to see and hear everything on television in original may be the big reason the Belgians have this language tick. Today we drove from Mistelbach an der Zaya to Mailberg (about 45 minutes drive). The market municipality Mailberg is a well-known wine growing village, embedded in a valley basin and surrounded by vineyards. The 3 romantic cellar lanes with their well-tended press houses and cellars accommodate some of the typical regional wines and are open for tastings and shopping possibilities.  The ancient rooms of the castle provide for a guest house. We walked on the “Weinwanderweg” (green signs to follow) starting from the winery Hagn, where we parked our car. The winery Hagn is a surprisingly modern wine lodge in the middle of the vineyards, with a very contemporary architecture. In the restaurant we had a good meal accompanied with a wine selection of house wines.

www.hagn-weingut.at/weindomizil

Restaurant Hagn with panoramic view.

More than a “Heurige-platte!”

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