Label Image
2006 F.X. Pichler Sauvignon Blanc Smaragd
Out of Stock
Not Yet Rated Be the first to rate this wine
Expert Ratings
ST 92
RP 92

read the reviews

Begin Your Search

WineAccess Travel Log

Read stories from the world's greatest wine trails.

More About This Wine

Product Details

Place Image

Related Products

Additional Vintages
Other Wines from this Producer and Vintage
2006 F.X. Pichler Sauvignon Blanc Smaragd

Producer: F.X. Pichler
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: Sauvignon Blanc
Origin: Austria
Region: Austria

Expert Reviews

92 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2007

($64; 14% alcohol) Medium green-yellow. Inviting aromas of lichee, gooseberry jelly and yellow bell pepper. Pleasant hay blossom and bell pepper flavors are layered with sweet banana and white currant. Taut acidity gives this rather powerful sauvignon excellent focus. Finishes with lingering notes of elderflower, nettles and minerals. Drink 2008 to 2016.

92 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

Member Ratings

Your Rating & Review
0 Member Ratings

Be the first to rate this wine

Greyed Out Ratings Graph

Explore

Place Image
About Austria

Austrian wine has rapidly gained in international stature in the past decade, mostly on the strength of Austria's dry white wines produced within a 20-mile radius of the small city of Krems on the Danube, less than 50 miles west of Vienna. The steep, terraced, riverside vineyards of the Wachau, immediately west of Krems, as well as geologically diverse sites on the edges of the city and to the north in the Kamptal, yield...
Read More »

Varietal Image
Sauvignon Blanc

For all of its name recognition and reputation for high-quality plantings and bottlings, Sauvignon Blanc has never been represented in lists or discussions of the spectacular wines of the world. But just because wines made from Sauvignon Blanc are rarely crafted for extended cellaring and don't command staggering sums in international auctions doesn't mean that...



Read More »