Programmes about wine over the next two weeks. Times subject to change.
ServusTV HD OesterreichThe documentary tells the story of wine through key inventions, from treading grapes by foot to steel tanks, glass bottles and harvesters. It also asks how mass production, pesticides and climate change affect viticulture, and whether drones and high-tech will shape its future.
ServusTV HD OesterreichThe science magazine explains, among other things, how yeast cells turn grape juice into wine during fermentation. Other topics are the hedgehog's hibernation and the eventful history of gingerbread, with astrophysicist Gernot Grömer.
ServusTV HD OesterreichThe documentary tells the story of wine through key inventions, from treading grapes by foot to steel tanks, glass bottles and harvesters. It also asks how mass production, pesticides and climate change affect viticulture, and whether drones and high-tech will shape its future.
ORF2W HDThe magazine reports on the best pear harvest in the Mostviertel in ten years and shows how the fruit becomes perry. Other topics include the quince and Weinviertel DAC Reserve as a wine to accompany food.
LILO.TVThe programme offers an overview of wine as one of the world's oldest drinks and how it comes from fermenting grapes. It shows the range of styles and its cultural importance for celebrations and landscapes.
ServusTV HD OesterreichThis documentary shows people in France living and working sustainably: a district project in Bordeaux where empty buildings were renovated, a family from Grenoble building an ecological house, and farmers on Corsica.
ORF2W HDThe film travels through southern and south-eastern Styria and shows how dialect, bilingualism and living traditions keep the linguistic heritage alive among vineyards, villages and border regions.
ServusTV HD OesterreichThe programme visits the Trummer family, who grow wine and run a Buschenschank in the southernmost part of Styria. The mother cooks, the son makes the wine and the father serves at the table.
The programme visits the Trummer family's Buschenschank in the far south of Styria. The family grows wine here in its third generation, and mother Andrea cooks matching dishes with ingredients from their own farm.
ServusTV HD OesterreichThe series profiles wineries that helped shape Austrian wine, including the Triebaumer estate in Rust and the Nikolaihof in Mautern. The families describe how they work and what they have achieved.
The documentary focuses on winemakers such as the Triebaumer estate in Rust and the Nikolaihof in Mautern. The Nikolaihof was the first Austrian estate to get 100 Parker points, for a Riesling aged long in the cask.
The science magazine with Gernot Grömer shows how yeasts drive fermentation in winemaking. Other topics are the hedgehog's life-saving hibernation and the eventful history of gingerbread.
ServusTV HD OesterreichThe documentary portrays wine estates such as Ernst Triebaumer in Rust, known for Blaufränkisch, and the Nikolaihof in Mautern. The latter was the first Austrian estate to receive 100 Parker points, for a Riesling that matured in the cask for 17 years.