The Vineyards That Drink Blood

The Vineyards That Drink Blood

The Lössboden on this narrow parcel of the northern Bisamberg slope is officially classified as lime-rich silt. In practice, it functions as a sponge for trauma. Beneath the fine, wind-blown sediment lie the mass graves of the Battle of Wagram, 1809—calcified femurs, brass buttons from French uniforms, fragments of ribcage still holding the shape of bayonet wounds. The soil has been digesting them for over two centuries.