F.X. Pichler Loibner Loibenberg Wachau Riesling Smaragd 2018

FX Pichler is regarded as perhaps the greatest producer of Austria. This brilliant winery is located in the banks of the Danube, with the long glass windows of the elevated tasting room looking back across the precipitous slopes that are the source of many of Austrian finest wines, including these. Rudi Pichler makes a range of wines from different vineyard sites along this stretch of the Danube. The Loibenberg vineyard consists of narrow steep terraces on mainly gneiss rock, facing almost directly south resulting in wines of both richness and minerality. This exceptional Riesling is vinified and aged in large old neutral oak casks before bottling. This is full of intense yellow plum and papaya notes of wet stone. Intense yet round and rich but pure, with incredible length