The origins of the winegrowers' association, founded in 1992, lie in regular meetings of ten winegrowers from the Lower Austrian winegrowing regions of Kamptal and Kremstal to exchange experiences regarding vineyard sites and vineyards in connection with their soils, microclimate and grape varieties and their cultivation. The aim of establishing a vineyard classification system in the Danube region was already defined in the 1992 statutes. The association was understood as a community of values in which the marketing of wines according to their origin has top priority.

When it was founded, these were wineries from the four Lower Austrian wine-growing regions of Kamptal, Kremstal, Traisental and Wagram. In 2018, the two wine-growing regions of Carnuntum and Vienna, which are also crossed by the Danube, were added, increasing the number of members to 62 wineries. With the addition of five more members, the number has grown to a total of 67 wineries as of September 2020. Michael Moosbrugger from Weingut Schloss Gobelsburg has been the association's chairman since 2007. His deputies are the winemakers Philipp Grassl, Gerhard Lobner, Gerhard Markowitsch, Martin Nigl and Fritz Wieninger.
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Markus J. Eser
Weinakademiker und Herausgeber „Der Weinkalender“