FX Pichler Riesling Ried Steinertal Smaragd 2019 (750ML)

98 JS / 94 WA

Great depth and ripeness, but more importantly great freshness and vitality. A whole hillside of wild herbs, plus limes, peaches and a lot of wet stone, which animate the sleek body in a really exciting way and prompt you to abandon all, in order to focus on the hint of eternity in this glass. Drink or hold.--James Suckling

The 2019 Ried Steinertal Riesling Smaragd is from the terraced part of the cru and combines coolish but ripe and concentrated white peach stone fruit aromas with flinty-crystalline terroir aromas. Full-bodied and intense but also refreshing, with piquant and salty acidity and persistent crisp stone fruit aromas, this is a densely textured., very intense but always stimulating Steinertal Riesling that reflects the coolish terroir of this vineyard between Pfaffenberg and Loibenberg. 13% alcohol. Tasted at the domain in June 2021.--Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate