Josef Fischer Riesling 'Ried Kreuzberg' Smaragd Wachau 2021

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Josef Fischer Riesling 'Ried Kreuzberg' Smaragd Wachau 2021Kreuzbergs inherent austerity yields a Riesling of single minded minerality. Aromatically, it presents its stoniness in measured, serene fashion, but it sizzles on the palate with white knuckled intensitya fascinating contrast which makes for a wine of dynamism and complexity.

This cuvée displays that uncanny combination of elegance and power that characterizes so many of France’s truly great wines

Aromas and flavors of red berry fruit and crushed herbs are carried on a backbone of chewy tannins

Elegant yet ample

A real jewel of the cellar

rather than dominant

Lugano has saved several parcels from extinction and from which he creates a truly unique white wine that is delicate

Flanked by grand cru Corton-Rognet and Ladoix premier cru Le Bois Roussot

comprises 55- to 85-year-old Palomino Fino from the 2021 vintage (corresponding to the Roman numerals in the wine’s name) planted in the albariza soils of the esteemed Miraflores la Baja vineyard in Sanlúcar de Barrameda

With three weeks of skin contact

The wine is then racked into a mix of small- and medium-sized French oak barrels for two years

for this bottling still impresses

Produced from hand-harvested grapes and sand-infused soils in the Valmaggiore vineyard site in the village of Vezza d’Alba

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