2022 Riesling Höhereck Smaragd

Wine Details
Producer

Alzinger

Place of Origin

Austria

Loiben

Wachau

Color

White

Grape/Blend

Riesling

Vintages
Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2025 - 2045

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Until Leo Alzinger’s parents, Anna and Leo Alzinger Sr., started bottling their own wines in the 1970s, the estate grew grapes and sold the fruit. Right from the start, the Alzingers forged a clear-cut style that always stayed on the taut side, foregoing the intense ripeness that characterized some of Wachau’s wines in the 1990s and 2000s. Leo Alzinger Jr. joined his home estate in 2000 after attending Klosterneuburg and training with Malat in Kremstal, Jamek in the Wachau, Pfaffl in the Weinviertel, Müller-Catoir in the Pfalz and Fromm in Marlborough, New Zealand. Today, he runs the estate with his wife Katharina. They farm 11 hectares and purchase fruit from one further hectare. Riesling makes up 40% of production, and the rest is Grüner Veltliner. Apart from two village wines, all are single-site wines. Leo Alzinger Jr. says his aim was to “refine the cool, precise style” his parents forged. The wines are made in stainless steel and large, used barrels. They are taut and slender, with vivid freshness and crystalline clarity—hair-raising Rieslings of immense purity and elegance. This is the estate that makes Grüner Veltliner for Riesling lovers and Riesling for specialists. The 2022 harvest began on 27 September and concluded on 31 October.