2021 | Weingut Prager | Achleiten Riesling

White Wine: 2021 | Weingut Prager | Achleiten Riesling

Very enticing nose of white peach and fresh mint with a hint of white flowers. At once succulent and delicate, this is a joyful Wachau riesling that has such wonderful harmony it should appeal to anyone looking for great dry white wine.

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Producer: Weingut Prager

Ratings: WA | 95 JS | 96

Vintage: 2021

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Gruner Veltliner

Country/Region: Austria, Wachau

Very enticing nose of white peach and fresh mint with a hint of white flowers. At once succulent and delicate, this is a joyful Wachau riesling that has such wonderful harmony it should appeal to anyone looking for great dry white wine. Super-elegant and very long finish with delicate wet-stone minerality.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: With a clear, somewhat reductive and restrained nose of bright fruit and dark rock, Robert and Toni Bodenstein's 2021 Ried Achleiten Riesling Smaragd opens very concentrated but fresh. So too on the palate, which is crystalline, fresh and zesty but also very intense and complex. The persistent finish is powerful and still somewhat astringent. Again, this is a great Wachau Riesling from one of the proudest sites of the area. Tasted at Schloss Drnstein, Wachau, in September 2022.

• James Suckling: Very enticing nose of white peach and fresh mint with a hint of white flowers. At once succulent and delicate, this is a joyful Wachau riesling that has such wonderful harmony it should appeal to anyone looking for great dry white wine. Super-elegant and very long finish with delicate wet-stone minerality. Drink or hold.

Producer Information

Weingut Prager is one of the oldest wine estates in the Wachau region of Austria, dating back to at least 1302. The winery itself was founded in 1715 and is best known for its single-vineyard bottlings of Riesling and Grner Veltliner. Franz Prager, now retired, dedicated his career to producing quality wines that are expressive of terroir and was a leading advocate for improved wine quality in the Wachau. Prager helped establish the Vinea Wachau Nobilis Districtus association in 1983 and served as chairman until 1988. During this time, Weingut Prager already owned some of the top crus of the Wachau region, including the vineyards Achleiten and Steinrigl. The estate now owns 16.5 hectares (40 acres) in some of the region's best vineyards and produces eight single-vineyard Rieslings and seven single-vineyard Grner Veltliners at the Federspeil and Smaragd levels. The soil composition of each of Weingut Prager's vineyards is diverse. This ranges from silty and calcareous loam, which is well-suited to Grner Veltliner, to mica schist and gneiss, which is better for Riesling. Harvest at Weingut Prager is done by hand in multiple tries to avoid harvesting botrytis-infected grapes. At the winery, grapes are typically destemmed and fermented with indigenous yeasts. Wines are fermented and aged in stainless steel.