A Muschelkalk Erste Lage on Vienna's Nussberg, Documented Since 1315

Gollin

Ried Gollin sits on the south flank of the Nussberg, the limestone ridge in Vienna's 19th district of Döbling where the city's most serious white wines are grown. It is a classified site, not an obscure one. The Österreichische Traditionsweingüter (ÖTW) ranked it an Erste Lage, or premier cru (1ÖTW), in 2017, placing it in the top tier of a Vienna vineyard hierarchy that does in fact exist. The name is old. Gollin was first documented in 1315 as "Colein am Nussberg," among the longest-recorded parcels in Austrian viticulture.

The Site

Gollin covers roughly five hectares within the Nußdorf cadastral municipality, part of the larger Nussberg. It faces southeast, on slopes of about 5 to 17 degrees, at 222 to 276 metres above sea level. On the hillside it lies between Ried Ulm and Ried Rosengartl, lying in the middle of the south-facing side. Vienna's climate, moderated by the Danube below and Pannonian warmth reaching in from the east, gives the parcel a long, even ripening season.

Soil

The defining feature of Gollin is its geology. The topsoil is weathered shell limestone, Muschelkalk, carrying a high lime content and a moderate proportion of clay, with layers of flysch and quartz and a sandstone base beneath. Growers who farm the parcel describe soils of weathered shell limestone with high lime and medium clay content. This is a calcareous, clay-influenced terroir rather than the loess of the flatter Viennese sites, and it is that limestone-and-clay combination, more than any single climatic advantage, that gives Gollin wines their density and mineral cut.

Producers and Wines

Gollin is bottled as a single site by several Viennese estates, each drawn to a different variety.

Fuhrgassl-Huber, of Neustift am Walde, farms Grüner Veltliner here and releases it as an Erste Lage ÖTW wine. The estate also draws old-vine fruit from the Nussberg limestone for its Riesling.

Hajszan Neumann works its Gollin holding biodynamically and makes a Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc) from it, fermented with native yeasts in large wooden casks, unfined and gently filtered. The estate describes the parcel as one of the Nussberg's limestone-and-sandstone plots, lying between Ulm and Rosengartl.

Bioweingut Lenikus, based on the Cobenzlgasse in Döbling, farms Gollin organically and bottles a rare Wiener Neuburger from it, a variety now scarce even within Vienna.

Across these estates the site speaks in Vienna's usual grammar: varietal Grüner Veltliner, Weissburgunder and Riesling, alongside the co-planted, co-fermented Wiener Gemischter Satz DAC that is the city's signature wine and its own protected origin. What runs through all of them is the Muschelkalk, a shell-limestone base that reads in the glass as salinity, firmness and length.

This comprehensive guide is part of the WineSaint Wine Region Guide collection. Last updated: September 2026.