2024 | Prager Klaus Riesling Smaragd | Wachau Michel Delhommeau apple and anise ride along

apple and anise ride along a focused palate of structure and enduring elegance

grainy tannins and bold freshness supporting the maturing fruit

In fact only the slowness

The finale is long with notes of burnt butter and toast

2024 | Prager Klaus Riesling Smaragd | Wachau Michel Delhommeau apple and anise ride alongThe 2024 Riesling Ried Klaus Smaragd, from a site chiefly composed of dark amphibolite, is all wet stone with a vestige of flint, but otherwise shy. The palate is equally slow to reveal itself in its stony demeanor, yet unfolds into a bright, ripe lemon tone of exquisite purity and poise, seemingly emanating from the dark stone. Somehow naked, yet absolutely disarming in its unadorned, stony state. 97 Pts Vinous