2016 Rudi Pichler Riesling Smaragd Achleithen, Wachau

So much dried apricot and powerful citrus fruit character. Grapefruit and lemon galore. Full body, dense and flavorful yet with an underlying acid intensity that makes the wine lively and vivid. Dedicated dry style delivers wondrous white. Drink or hold.

97 points James Suckling

From an extremely steep hillside with southwesterly-exposed terraces and meagre soils of Gföhler gneiss, this is a mineral-driven and pure Riesling, one that epitomises authenticity & identity

Musky, bittersweet perfume of gentian and iris accompanied by struck flint and sea breeze cavort with scents of white peach and grapefruit. The silken palate follows suit with luscious but bright fruit allied to inner-mouth florality and laced with mouth-watering salinity. The vibrant, generously juicy finish is superbly transparent to mineral and floral nuances. The upshot is a shimmering sense of lingering, near-kaleidoscopic interaction.