Franz Hirtzberger, Riesling Hochrain Smaragd, 2024 still macabeo faintly honeyed register

faintly honeyed register

this wine consistently delivers the house’s signature style—bright

West Cork Distillers pushes Irish single malt expression with this Bog Oak Charred Cask offering from their Glengarriff Series—each bottling celebrating a unique Irish landscape

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Franz Hirtzberger, Riesling Hochrain Smaragd, 2024 still macabeo faintly honeyed registerAnother of Hirtzberger's celebrated Spitz crus, this one with a slightly different signature Hochrain sits on weathered crystalline rock with a thin overlay of sandy loam, which gives the Smaragd a touch more flesh than its purely gneiss bound siblings. Still unmistakably Wachau: cool, mineral, vertical, built for the long haul. 2024 brought clarity and tension to the vineyard, and the result is a Riesling that opens with white peach and apricot