2020 | Weingut F.X. Pichler | Ried Liebenberg Grüner Veltliner

Medium lemon-green with silver highlights. Fresh notes of orange and tangerine zest, a touch of golden tropical fruit, and hints of papaya and mango, with a mineral background. Juicy, elegant, and balanced, it has a delicate touch of pepper, subtle fruit expression, a silky texture, fine acidity, and delicate savoury herb notes on the long-lasting finish. Good length and certain ageing potential.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: From the very stony, southwest-facing, terraced cru, the 2020 Ried Liebenberg Grüner Veltliner opens with a pure, flinty and herbal bouquet of crushed stones, lots of spices and still-reduced fruit. Juicy-piquant and finessed, with nervy, salty acidity and quite round and charming fruit for this vintage, Lucas Pichler's 2020 Liebenberg tastes lively despite the pretty low total acidity of 4.5 grams per liter. Tasted as a sample in June 2021, to be bottled in July. 2020 is the first vintage Lucas Pichler doesn't use the predicates of the Vinea anymore since he left the group earlier this year.

• James Suckling: Enormously herbal, but these are all dried herbs and they are married to an enormously compact, medium to full body that melts in your mouth, in spite of the firm tannin structure underlying all this. So much mineral freshness at the very long, silky finish.

Producer Information

Weingut F.X. Pichler is a wine producer based in the Unesco World Heritage Site of Wachau, Austria. It specialzes in producing a range of complex, intensely flavored wines wines from Grüner Veltliner, Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc. The estate vineyards are located on steep stone terraces, predominantly located on the southern side of the Danube river. There is a total of 20 hectares (49 acres) of vineyards planted to Grüner Veltliner, Riesling and small amounts of Sauvignon Blanc and Gelber Muskateller. These vineyards are steeped in history – the Loibner Burgstall vineyard appears in documents dating back as early as 1248. F.X. Pichler was established in 1898 in Dürnstein and in 1976, the estate passed to Franz Xaver (F.X.) Pichler. The winery created its eye-catching Unendlich Riesling in 1998, and features a star-studded blue label inspired by Karl Friedrich Schinkel's stage setting for Mozart's The Magic Flute opera. The label was specially designed in order to reflect the meaning of the word "unendlich", which translates as never-ending. The modern cellars were built in 2009, and were designed to reflect the historic 12th and 13th Century steep stone terraces typical of Wachau.

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