The Grüner Baum hotel in Bad Gastein, in Austria’s Salzburg province, has created a two-night summer package showcasing the best local organic wines. 
The four-star hotel, which is certified 100 percent organic by Austria’s official organic product inspection body, is offering the wine-themed packages for the nights of Friday 26 June to Saturday 27 June 2015 inclusive, with final wine tasting sessions on Sunday 28 June.
The oenological package is priced at EU359 (£260) per person and has been timed to coincide with Austria’s 13th annual organic wine awards, the ‘Best of Bio’ competition, which the Grüner Baum hotel is hosting.
The package, which includes a gala dinner, a mountain hut dinner and four tasting sessions, has been developed to showcase the best of Austria’s increasingly popular organic wines and to enable guests to witness the 2015 ‘Best of Bio’ competition first-hand.
The package consists of:
Friday 26 June
- 12.30 – 13.00: welcome lunch
- 13.00 – 14.00: ‘sensory’ wine workshop with qualified sommelier and wine expert, Jürgen Schmücking
- 14.00 – 17.30: wine tasting part 1
- 18.30: carriage ride to a mountain hut in the Hohe Tauern national park for a rustic ‘Best of Bio’ dinner with winesfrom the tasting session
Saturday 27 June
- Until 10.00: breakfast
- 10.00 – 12.30: wine tasting part 2
- 12.30 – 14.00: lunch by the outdoor pool
- 14.00 – 17.00: wine tasting part 3
- 19.30: gala dinner, with wines from the tasting session
Sunday 28 June
- Until 9.00: breakfast
- 9.00 – 12.30: wine tasting part 4 (with subsequent presentation of the winning wines)
- 12.30: light lunch and departure
All wines submitted for the ‘Best of Bio’ awards must be from grapes grown on certified organic agricultural land, grown in accordance with principles of organic farming, excluding the use of artificial chemical fertilisers, pesticides, fungicides and herbicides.
Categories in the awards will include white wines, red wines, rosé wines, sparkling wines and sweet wines.
Organic viticulture is a sector in which Austria has recently experienced particularly high growth. Between 2000 and 2015 the amount of Austrian land classified as organic wine-growing land grew by 487 per cent, from 749 hectares at the start of the century to 4,400 hectares this year.
The Grüner Baum hotel is a family-run, four-star hotel in its own 210-acre private valley. The hotel borders the 1,836 km2 UNESCO-listed Hohe Tauern National Park, the biggest national park in Austria and Central Europe’s largest nature reserve, and is a member of Small Leading Hotels of the World.
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