2024 | Prager Klaus Riesling Smaragd | Wachau Michel Delhommeau Ripe cherry

Ripe cherry

then changing to violets

In fact only the slowness

bitter finish creates balance

apple and anise ride along a focused palate of structure and enduring elegance

2024 | Prager Klaus Riesling Smaragd | Wachau Michel Delhommeau Ripe cherryThe 2024 Riesling Ried Klaus Smaragd, from a site chiefly composed of dark amphibolite, is all wet stone with a vestige of flint, but otherwise shy. The palate is equally slow to reveal itself in its stony demeanor, yet unfolds into a bright, ripe lemon tone of exquisite purity and poise, seemingly emanating from the dark stone. Somehow naked, yet absolutely disarming in its unadorned, stony state. 97 Pts Vinous