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EDI & THE WOLF This Austrian-style wine bar called a heuriger in the old country comes naturally to Eduard Frauneder and Wolfgang Ban, the chefs and owners of
NYT > Home Page By FLORENCE FABRICANT 2010
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EDI & THE WOLF This Austrian-style wine bar called a heuriger in the old country comes naturally to Eduard Frauneder and Wolfgang Ban, the chefs and owners of
NYT > Home Page By FLORENCE FABRICANT 2010
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For something different, take a trip to the "heuriger" taverns in the villages of Grinzing, Neustift and Heiligenstadt on the edge of the city for a glass or two of the "new" wine for which the area is famous, together with some good, basic country-style food.
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If you have time, you can take a bus/train to Baden or some of the wine villages in Lower Austria Krems, Falkenstein and spend a day there and visit one of the heuriger.
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Go out on the crooked Sieveringerstrasse and behold the multitudes waxing mellow over the sweet red _heuriger_.
Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920
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(_heuriger_) flowed like water, still worse confounding the confusion; and high over all, vaulted, in ground-and-lofty tumbling, a particoloured Merry-Andrew, like the genius of the place and of Life itself.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
amysue commented on the word heuriger
I first came across this word in a Jonathan Carroll novel. I just liked the word and liked the idea of a small local palce that serves it's own wine.
January 27, 2007