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GrinzingHeuriger (special restaurants for drinking wine)
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Kaiser Joseph II granted Viennese wine-growers in 1784 the privilege to sell their wine for maximum 300 days a year without trade-license. That privilege is still valid nowadays. Vienna has on about 720 acres wine-growing. In such restaurants (called Heuriger or Buschenschank) You enjoy Viennese relax and leisury while drinking a Vierterl, a quarter, of wine or a Gspritzter, 1/8 wine and 1/8 mineral water. You eat typical food like Bratlfettn-Brot (bread with drippings). Often people sing and play music. The brothers Schrammel were very famous in the last century and their music is called Schrammel-music, a typical Vienna-sound. This year's wine is called Heuriger, from November 11, the Martini-day, till the end of the year it is called Alter (old one). The evening in Viennese wine-districts has a very beautiful mood.
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