Cellar lane

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Term for mostly smaller, often centuries-old cellar complexes, which are often built next to each other outside the wine-growing communities. The press house is located just below ground level. The so-called cellar neck connects the front rooms with the cellar tube, the actual storage cellar. This provides an ideal, constant cellar temperature. Especially in Lower Austria (picture below in Prellenkirchen, Carnuntum) and Burgenland, there are many of these romantic cellars with a lot of local colour. In many wine-growing villages, it is customary to celebrate cellar festivals in these cellar alleys in autumn after the grape harvest. See also under winegrowing customs.

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