2024 | Prager Klaus Riesling Smaragd | Wachau Borgo Maragliano Opening with aromas of blackberry

Opening with aromas of blackberry jam

A good lineup of fruit flavours are joined by sweet softness through the mid-palate that widens things out rather than dips

extended growing season that the wine world is rightfully excited about

with bright apple fruit on the nose

This is the first vintage with the appellation printed on the label

2024 | Prager Klaus Riesling Smaragd | Wachau Borgo Maragliano Opening with aromas of blackberryThe 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