The specifically Austrian culture of "Heuriger" - the new wine - was developed in the early Middle Ages. All citizens of Baden had the right to, even back then, serve homemade wine "under their own steam" - in their own homes. Young men went through the villages with a pine bush-decorated rod to announce the premises where they started to serve new wine. To this day, putting pine bushes on the entrances of vineyards is part of that "Heuriger" tradition.