2020 | Pichler | Ried Loibenberg Riesling Smaragd

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White Wine: 2020 | Pichler | Ried Loibenberg Riesling Smaragd

This is extremely delicate and complex, a true masterpiece. Great minerality, stone fruit but also grapefruit notes make this Loibenberg an extremely multifaceted wine with great future potential.

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Producer: Pichler

Ratings: WA | 93-95 JS | 96

Vintage: 2020

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Riesling

Country/Region: Austria, Wachau

This is extremely delicate and complex, a true masterpiece. Great minerality, stone fruit but also grapefruit notes make this Loibenberg an extremely multifaceted wine with great future potential.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2020 Ried Loibenberg Riesling opens very spicy, fresh and almost hard, with intense aromas of white peaches and apricots. Dense, intense and powerful on the palate, this is a massive, close-meshed and tannin-rich Riesling with concentrated juice yet a still-bitter, dry grippy finish. This 2020 needs some years to extract its talents, which are there, but at this early stage it is pretty difficult to give an exact forecast. Tasted as a sample in June 2021, to be bottled in July. 2020 is the first vintage Lucas Pichler doesn’t use the predicates of the Vinea anymore since he left the group earlier this year.

• James Suckling: Ravishing pineapple and orange-peel nose with a hint of mint wafting over the deep fruit. Stunning combination of juiciness, concentration and vibrancy that runs right through the very long finish. So uplifting with great aging potential. Drink or hold.

Producer Information

Weingut F.X. Pichler is a wine producer based in the Unesco World Heritage Site of Wachau, Austria. It specialzes in producing a range of complex, intensely flavored wines wines from Grner Veltliner, Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc. The estate vineyards are located on steep stone terraces, predominantly located on the southern side of the Danube river. There is a total of 20 hectares (49 acres) of vineyards planted to Grner Veltliner, Riesling and small amounts of Sauvignon Blanc and Gelber Muskateller. These vineyards are steeped in history the Loibner Burgstall vineyard appears in documents dating back as early as 1248. F.X. Pichler was established in 1898 in Drnstein and in 1976, the estate passed to Franz Xaver (F.X.) Pichler. The winery created its eye-catching Unendlich Riesling in 1998, and features a star-studded blue label inspired by Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s stage setting for Mozart’s The Magic Flute opera. The label was specially designed in order to reflect the meaning of the word “unendlich”, which translates as never-ending. The modern cellars were built in 2009, and were designed to reflect the historic 12th and 13th Century steep stone terraces typical of Wachau.