2018 Grüner Veltliner Steinertal Smaragd Leo Alzinger, Wachau (0,75l)

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2018 Grüner Veltliner Steinertal Smaragd, Leo Alzinger

From the parcels below the Riesling, grown on weathered bedrock (iron-rich gneiss) and benefiting from descending air currents of the creek, the 2018 Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Ried Steinertal offers a coolish, fascinating, precise and flinty bouquet of white fruits. Lush and intense on the palate, this is a very intense and mineral but also sensual Veltliner that pleases hedonists as well as intellectuals. The wine has vivacious acidity, remarkable finesse and a long and sustainable finish with a lot of salt and tension. One of the finest Veltliners that has been produced in Lower Austria in 2018. - Stephan Reinhardt, März 2020