Explore Austria's Southern Styria Region by Campervan.
Herzlich Willkommen! Sausaler Weinland” – a warm welcome to the Sausal wine country. The flower-festooned sign shows a winemaker carrying his grape harvest in a basket on his back. We have just stepped back in time.
The tiny village of Sankt Andrä-Höch marks the beginning of our campervan journey along the wine routes of Steiermark (Styria), a state in southern Austria. The Sausaler Weinstrasse wine route is one of three that crisscross Southern Styria (Südsteiermark), a region renowned for its backcountry routes and campgrounds (stellplätze), tucked amongst farms and vineyards.
The vintage conical grape basket depicted on the sign was used to collect fruit on the steep slopes of terraced vineyards in this mountainous region. The greeting could not be more quaint. Between the sign, a geranium-potted bridge, and a little chapel on the other side, everything I had imagined of Styria is here.
