Bruckner composed this work, together with Vaterlandslied, on a six-strophe text of August Silberstein in November 1866 during his stay in Linz on request of Anton M. Storch.

[1][2][3] The work, of which the original manuscript is lost, was first issued in the Wiener Compositionalbum by Emil Berté in 1892.

Thereafter (September 1894), it was issued with another text by Bibamus as Eine Wein-Legende (A wine legend) in the Neues Wiener Journal.

Wie die Reben Mög' sich's heben In dem Streben auf zum Licht!

The 12-bar long work in C major is scored for TTBB choir[3] - "ein Trinklied mit höherem moralische Hintergrund" ("a drinking song with higher ethical background"), which exhibits a peculiar imprint with unexpected inflexions and austere harmonies in a narrow time span.