Alzinger Wachau Ried Liebenberg Smaragd Riesling 2024 CS20231023 bitter chocolate

bitter chocolate

Charmes-Chambertin is Denis Bachelet's calling card

racy finish

offering a captivating bouquet of wild strawberries

A wine for collectors who love classical

Alzinger Wachau Ried Liebenberg Smaragd Riesling 2024 CS20231023 bitter chocolateAlzinger is one of the Wachau's quiet masters, and Liebenberg is one of his cooler, slower ripening sites, all amphibolite and mica schist on the Danube bend. The result is a dry Riesling built for tension rather than weight. Smaragd is the Wachau's ripest, driest category, but here that ripeness arrives wrapped in stony cut and citrus drive. Expect orchard and stone fruit threaded with a fine mineral spine and bright, lifted acidity. It's drinking