Alzinger Ried Loibenberg Riesling Smaragd 2024 Consignment Aged for a full two

Aged for a full two years in new French oak barrels

with silken supporting tannins

farms a few hectares in Arlay at the center of the region and has since added parcels in Poligny

is just as deft with the crus as she is with everyday Beaujolais

left Armenia at eighteen to study winemaking in Switzerland

Alzinger Ried Loibenberg Riesling Smaragd 2024 Consignment Aged for a full twoLoibenberg is the warmest of the great Wachau sites, a wall of sun baked terraces climbing 200 meters above the Danube on barren primary rock. Leo Alzinger farms it for tension as much as power, and this Smaragd, the ripest dry tier in the region, threads concentration through a frame that stays nervy and precise. Spontaneously fermented and raised in steel with a touch of neutral Austrian oak, it shows what Wachau Riesling can do when nobody gets in