Austria is a small but fine wine country with four wine growing regions and 19 wine growing districts. Around 32,000 wine growers (only 6,500 of them self bottling) on an area of almost 50,000 acres produce around 2.5 million hectoliters of wine per year.
The biggest growing region in Austria is Niederösterreich with a total of 62% of all vineyards (most of it Grüner Veltliner and Riesling), followed by Burgenland with 30% (Zweigelt and Blaufränkisch dominate here), Styria with its Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc adds up to 7% and Vienna is by far the smallest region with only 1%.
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