🍇 Grüner Veltliner
Austria's main grape: 32.3% of the country's vineyards (2025); one of its parents is Traminer.
Grüner Veltliner is a white wine grape from Austria and the most widely planted in the country. According to the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture and Austrian Wine Marketing (ÖWM), in 2025 it covered 32.3% of all 44,210 ha of vineyards. For comparison, the next white grape, Welschriesling, has 6.3%.
Based on DNA markers, the VIVC catalogue names Savagnin, that is Traminer, as one of the grape's parents; the other parent is unknown.
The catalogue lists 79 synonyms for the grape, among them Weissgipfler and Manhardsrebe. In the Weinviertel district the grape has its own label term: Weinviertel DAC is wine made only from Grüner Veltliner, with no more than 6 g/l of sugar.
The grape matters to Austria's neighbours too. In Czechia, according to the state vineyard register at the end of 2025, Veltlínské zelené comes first on the list of the most widely planted white grapes.
Why it matters to you. The words Weinviertel DAC guarantee that the bottle holds Grüner Veltliner with up to 6 g/l of sugar. «Veltlínské zelené» on Czech labels is the same grape. If a grape name appears on an EU wine, the bottle holds at least 85% of it.
How it connects to Wine
🍇 Grüner Veltliner → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
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- What is made from it
- 🥃 Wachauer Weinbrand
- Traditions
- Austrians
- Part of
- 🍇 Grape varieties
- Origin
- 🗺️ Austrian wine
- Where it grows
- Austria: 📍 Wachau, 📍 Kamptal, 📍 Kremstal, 📍 Weinviertel, 📍 Lower Austria, 📍 Traisental, 📍 Wagram, 📍 Vienna
Slovakia: 📍 Little Carpathians, 📍 Southern Slovakia, 📍 Nitra
Czechia: 📍 Moravia, 📍 Znojmo - Main grape in
- Austria: 📍 Wagram, 📍 Kamptal, 📍 Leithaberg, 📍 Lower Austria, 📍 Vienna, 📍 Carnuntum, 📍 Kremstal, 📍 Traisental, 📍 Wachau, 📍 Weinviertel, 📜 Viennese Gemischter Satz
Slovakia: 📍 Little Carpathians, 📍 Southern Slovakia, 📍 Nitra, 📜 Carpathian Pearl
Czechia: 📍 Mikulov, 📍 Znojmo, 📍 Moravia - Related to
- 🗺️ Slovak wine, 🍷 Stift Klosterneuburg Grüner Veltliner Eiswein, 🍷 Stift Klosterneuburg Grüner Veltliner Trockenbeerenauslese, 🍷 Stift Klosterneuburg Grüner Veltliner Klosterneuburg, 🍷 Ried Hengsberg Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Ried Steinriegel Grüner Veltliner Reserve, 🍷 Salomon Undhof Ried Wachtberg Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Salomon Undhof Ried Lindberg Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Salomon Undhof Ried Goldberg Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Salomon Undhof Wieden Grüner Veltliner
and 37 more
🍷 Salomon Undhof Franciscus Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Salomon Undhof HT Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Schloss Gobelsburg Ried Lamm Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Schloss Gobelsburg Ried Grub Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Schloss Gobelsburg Ried Renner Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Schloss Gobelsburg Ried Spiegel Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Schloss Gobelsburg Ried Steinsetz Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Schloss Gobelsburg Langenlois Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Gobelsburger Messwein Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Gobelsburg Löss Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Schloss Gobelsburg Grüner Veltliner Eiswein, 🍷 Schloss Gobelsburg Grüner Veltliner Auslese, 🍷 Schloss Gobelsburg Grüner Veltliner Trockenbeerenauslese, 🍷 Schloss Gobelsburg Brut Reserve, 🍷 Schloss Gobelsburg Blanc de Blancs, 🍷 Schloss Gobelsburg Vintage Extra Brut, 🍷 Topf Ried Offenberg Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Topf Ried Gaisberg Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Topf Ried Engabrunner Stein Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Topf Ried Wechselberg Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Topf Strass im Strassertal Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Topf Ried Rosengartl M Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Topf Brut Reserve, 🍷 Topf Brut Große Reserve, 🍷 Mayer am Pfarrplatz Ried Schenkenberg-Grinzing Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Mayer am Pfarrplatz Ried Preussen-Nussberg Wiener Gemischter Satz, 🍷 Mayer am Pfarrplatz Ried Langteufel-Nussberg Wiener Gemischter Satz, 🍷 Mayer am Pfarrplatz Nussberg Wiener Gemischter Satz, 🍷 Mayer am Pfarrplatz Wiener Gemischter Satz, 🍷 Mayer am Pfarrplatz Grinzing Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Mayer am Pfarrplatz Grüner Veltliner, 🍷 Mayer am Pfarrplatz Wiener Klassik, 🍷 Mayer am Pfarrplatz Beethoven Viennese White, 🍷 Mayer am Pfarrplatz Asia Cuvée, 🍷 Mayer am Pfarrplatz Sekt Brut, 🏷️ DAC, 🏷️ Vinea Wachau categories - Offspring
- 🍇 Donauveltliner
- Parents
- 🍇 Traminer
- Similar and different
- 🍇 Welschriesling
Frequently asked questions
What is Austria's main grape?
Grüner Veltliner: 32.3% of the country's vineyards in 2025.
Who are the parents of Grüner Veltliner?
According to VIVC, based on DNA markers, one parent is Savagnin (Traminer); the other is unknown.
What does Weinviertel DAC mean?
Wine from the Weinviertel made only from Grüner Veltliner, with no more than 6 g/l of sugar.
What is Grüner Veltliner called in Czechia?
Veltlínské zelené; at the end of 2025 it was first on the list of the country's most widely planted white grapes.
What to read next
- 🗺️ Austrian wine — The country's wine and winemaking: regions, grapes and appellations.
- 📍 Lower Austria — Austria's largest wine state, along the Danube: 28,574 ha (2020), about 62 % of the country's vineyards; the main grape is Grüner Veltliner.
- Austrians — Austrians are a Central European people, the main population of Austria; on this site: Grüner Veltliner, Tyrolean Bergkäse and Graukäse, Inländerrum, Wachau apricot spirit and PGI Tiroler Speck.
- 🍷 Schloss Gobelsburg Brut Reserve — Schloss Gobelsburg Brut Reserve: sparkling wine by Schloss Gobelsburg from Langenlois; Sekt Austria Reserve Niederösterreich g.U..
- 🥃 Wachauer Weinbrand — Austrian wine brandy from the protected Wachau name: protected EU name, 36–45% ABV, distilled only in pot stills, at least 3 years in oak casks.
Similar
🍇 Welschriesling · 🍇 Pinot Blanc · 🍇 Rotgipfler · 🍇 Zierfandler · 🍇 Riesling · 🍇 Pálava
Sources
- VIVC (Vitis International Variety Catalogue): passport Veltliner grün (Grüner Veltliner), area
- Advantage Austria: Wein, Bier, Spirituosen — Zahlen und Fakten 2025 (Quelle: BMLUK, Österreich Wein Marketing)
- RIS: Verordnung über die Festsetzung des Weinbaugebietes „Weinviertel“ (Weinviertel DAC)
- Národní vinařské centrum: Statistics of grape varieties in the Czech Republic (ÚKZÚZ, Registr vinic, 31.12.2025)
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 (vintage, grape varieties on labels)