Alzinger Ried Loibenberg Riesling Smaragd 2024 Consignment oxidative approach that has made

oxidative approach that has made the Colin-Morey cellar one of Burgundy's most exciting addresses

The result is darker-fruited and more textural than Byron's straight Carneros Pinot

it's designed to showcase a particular expression of terroir within Lascombes' larger holdings

The vines are plowed

Alzinger Ried Loibenberg Riesling Smaragd 2024 Consignment oxidative approach that has madeLoibenberg 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