2016 | Weingut Pichler-Krutzler | Kellerberg Riesling

The 2016 vintage was generally favorable for Austrian Rieslings, producing wines with bright acidity, intense fruit flavors, and great aging potential.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2016 Ried Kellerberg Riesling Smaragd opens very pure, intense and flinty, with concentrated stone fruit aromas oh the nose. Rich and intense on the palate, this is an elegant, pure, finessed and very mineral Riesling with perfect mango aromas and piquant acidity. Very salty and tight, with great concentration and a persistent aromatic finish, this is a terroir-driven and age-worthy Kellerberg, a truly great wine!

• James Suckling: An amazingly concentrated dry riesling that somehow manages to be extraordinarily light-footed. There's a super-wide spectrum of aromas from parsley through lemon grass, with ripe white peach, mandarin orange and white chocolate in between. The breathtaking balance is more important than all of this, extending right through the incredibly long, lingering finish. Drink any time during the next thirty years!

Producer Information

Elisabeth Pichler-Krutzler and Erich Krutzler grew up with wine and played a major role in their parents' businesses for many years - she in the Wachau, he in southern Burgenland. So viticulture was, so to speak, in their cradle. So the logical, almost natural consequence of their marriage was their own winery. In 2007 they started with a meagre 10,000 bottles, and today they produce about 15 different wines from famous single vineyard such as Supperin, Loibenberg, Kellerberg or Pfaffenberg on about 14 hectares of vineyards year after year.In the unique natural and cultural landscape of the Wachau, these sites - cultivated sustainably and with respect for nature - produce wines that do justice to their special origins in every respect: nothing for quick enjoyment, but demanding attention and passion.In the cellar, there is as little intervention as possible, because it is allowed and not made. In the end, there should be wines with soul and character that are as authentic as nature dictates and that do not chase after any popular mainstream. Pichler Krutzler wines are pure, unadulterated and uncompromising. They are harvested and processed on a parcel-by-parcel basis. Since no water or juice is added, no fining and no additives are used, all wines are completely unadorned and authentic. High-quality handicraft without fashionable tendencies.

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