Consider a day trip out of the city to the other side of the Danube out into a lovely bucolic region of wine country and cute villages featuring classic Viennese Heurigen - rustic taverns where fizzy young wine, usually made by the owner, is served (usually along with hearty local fare and occasionally a few notes of folk music) in courtyards, gardens, or back patios overlooking vineyards. One town, Stammersdorf (pictured here), produces together with neighbouring Strebersdorf nearly a third of all Viennese regional wine, and is home to some of the most authentic Heurigen (cetainly more so than the more touristified scene in better known towns such as Grinzing), many of them along a cobblestone street called Kellergasse. It's also easily accessible without a car; hop on tram 31 from Schottenring U-Bahn station or tram 30 from Floridsdorf station, and you're there in just over a half hour.

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