A family apricot orchard around the Göttweiger Berg, making spirits and jams from very old fruit trees.
The apricot is the Wachau's other great crop, and around the Göttweiger Berg the Aufreiter family tends orchards of very old trees at Angern near Krems. What comes out of them is unhurried: apricot spirits and jams, made in small quantities, tasting of fruit that has had decades to learn the hillside.
Racks right by the terrace and they refilled all four of our bottles without being asked.
Fast service, we were back on the road in twenty minutes.
Nobody blinked at four people in lycra. Portions sized for riders.
Charged the battery over lunch, no charge for it.