Burgstall Riesling Smaragd
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2042
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
pan-seared trout, roasted pork belly, spicy Thai green curry
✨ Technical Specifications
Ried Burgstall is a historic vineyard situated on a high, wind-swept plateau above the Danube in the Wachau region. The terroir here is distinct, featuring primary rock (Gföhl gneiss) covered by a layer of sandy loess, which allows Riesling vines to dig deep, yielding wines of intense minerality and crystalline purity. Under the 'Smaragd' classification—named after the emerald-green lizards that bask on the sun-warmed stone terraces of the Wachau—this wine represents the peak of ripeness and concentration. F.X. Pichler utilizes traditional, non-interventionist winemaking, including hand-harvesting and aging in large neutral oak casks, to capture the vibrant stone fruit, flinty tension, and structural power that define this legendary estate's style.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1898 in the village of Oberloiben in Austria's prestigious Wachau region, Weingut F.X. Pichler is globally celebrated as a benchmark producer of world-class white wines. Elevated to international renown by Franz Xaver (F.X.) Pichler and guided today by Lucas Pichler, the estate adheres to a meticulous viticultural philosophy centered on terroir precision, minimal cellar intervention, and the expression of ancient, primary rock terraces. Sourced from legendary steep vineyard sites such as Kellerberg, Loibenberg, and Steinertal, their dry white wines showcase extraordinary concentration, minerality, and tension. The winery is particularly famed for its powerful, age-worthy Grüner Veltliner and Riesling bottlings, highlighted by monumental flagship cuvées like 'Unendlich'.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Riesling