Producer: Rudi Pichler Style: White Wine Grape Type:Riesling Origin: Austria Region:Austria
Expert Reviews
91 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2009
($40) Pale yellow. Fragrant aromas of ripe vineyard peach, white lily and lime zest. Light to medium in body, with crisp racy acidity framing and lifting the apricot and green apple flavors. This is much more than simply an ideal summer wine: it's a superb aperitif with wonderfully delineated varietal character that can provide great refreshment value year-round. Drink now to 2014.
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 »
The Riesling grape may scare away some wine novices. In Germany, where the grape reaches its finest expression, labels hew to a rigid, abstruse set of classifications, leaving newcomers with little idea what they may be looking at. Furthermore, many wine drinkers' early experiences with sweet wines from Germany (think Blue Nun), have not been especially rewarding. We say that it's your loss if you continue to fear the... Read More »
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