FX Pichler Riesling Ried Steinertal Smaragd 2019 (750ML)

98 JS / 95-97 FS / 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

Light yellow-green, silver reflections. Delicate candied tangerine zest, a hint of yellow tropical fruit, subtle passion fruit, some blossom honey. Juicy, fine fruit expression, elegant and harmonious, fine acid structure, lasting, mineral on the finish, already accessible, subtle fruit expression in the aftertaste.-Peter Moser, Falstaff

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