Wanderlust

A culinary adventure

Best for: Wine, wine routes, taverns, local produce, cakes

Why go: Spend time in a Viennese café, winery or country heuriger to sample all the flavours of Austria

Route: Wachau Valley; Vienna; Purbach and Rust; South Styria; Graz

Austria's culinary highlights are myriad, and will take you from traditional taverns to Michelin-starred eateries, with a few excellent wine regions scattered in between.

Start in the Wachau Valley, a stretch of the Danube that lies west of Vienna, between Krems an der Donau and Melk. This UNESCO-listed landscape is a ripe blend of vineyards, historic abbeys and castles, and is one of the country's finest wine regions, producing show-stopping bottles of . The best way

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