Weingut Rudi Pichler

ago cut the Danube River deeply through the Wachau. During the most recent ice age, from 110,000–14,000 years ago, loess was deposited from outwash plains and tundra, drif ting in from the eastern side, while sites near the Danube River are composed from more recently accumulated river sediments. One also encounters locally isolated alluvial deposits lef t by the Tethys Sea, the precursor to today’s Mediterranean.