South Styrian Wine road with the ESN gang

Baack again with wonderous adventures from the land of Austria. This time we had our last trip with the good people of ESN. This week we had a tour of the Southern Styrian wine fields and a tour of a winery. Our trip took us first to a lookout tower on one of the hills in the area. From there we could look into the distance for the rolling green hills mixed in with the couple houses and plenty of wine fields.

 

Bussin with the ESN gang

All the green hills

Lookout tower was scary to get up

I don't appreciate heights so i did not go close to the edge

There was a small farm next to the tower

From the fields, we moved on a bus to our winery tour of a local Regele winery. We got a tour of the facilities by the son of the owner. Again, like in our trip to Maribor post, I’m not a huge wine guy and Anne doesn’t drink at all, but still it was enjoyable to see the process and the equipment used. Still the winery was little lacklustre compared to the dark and ominous cellars of the winery in Maribor. After the tour we got to the tasting. This was interesting as we got to taste something like nine different wines and as you can imagine spirits were pretty high after that. For something like three hours we just socialized and tasted the new wines, before we jumped back on the bus and headed for dinner. The wines were not that great at least for my taste so I did not buy any from the shop of the winery.

Wine fields next to the winery

Let's get tasting

Following the wine tasting we moved to our dinner location, a country restaurant in the wine fields. This is the part I am little disappointed in, as we were promised a dinner in the trip description but in the end, we got a plate of tapas style sausages and veggies. This seemed quite little for a full day of going around. The food was good, but I can’t help but to compare this to our Maribor trip where we had a three course meal and a winery tour as well for pretty much the same price. It was a little annoyance, but after we got back, we went to a bar to get some burgers and watch the Champions league final.

Views next to the country restaurant

For late night beer and burger and football. Full day, but a good day