Loibner Oberhauser Riesling Smaragd
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
pan-seared scallops, roasted pork belly, spicy Thai green curry
✨ Technical Specifications
The Loibner Oberhauser vineyard sits on a flat, sun-drenched terrace near the Danube in the village of Unterloiben. Unlike the sheer, vertiginous stone terraces of Kellerberg or Loibenberg, Oberhauser features deep, fertile soils of sandy loess and Danube gravel. This unique terroir warms quickly, coaxing a remarkably opulent, exotic, and highly aromatic expression from the Riesling grape. Named 'Smaragd' after the emerald-green lizards that bask on the warm vineyard stones of the Wachau, this wine represents the highest tier of the region's natural ripeness. F.X. Pichler's masterful touch ensures that despite the wine's rich, powerful texture and tropical fruit notes, it maintains a precise, vibrant spine of acidity and a deep, mineral-driven finish.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1898 in Oberloiben, Weingut F.X. Pichler stands as one of the pinnacle estates of Austria's Wachau valley. Elevated to international legend status under Franz Xaver Pichler from 1971 onward, the domain is directed today by seventh-generation winemaker Lucas Pichler alongside his wife Johanna. The estate stewards approximately 20 hectares of vines, largely centered on precipitous, hand-carved dry-stone terraces of primary rock, weathered gneiss, amphibolite, and loess. Benefiting from the climatic tension between warm Pannonian airflows and cool Alpine drafts along the Danube, Pichler crafts monumental, dry white wines of chiselled mineral precision, depth, and longevity. The family shifted to certified organic viticulture and voluntarily departed the Vinea Wachau hierarchy to prioritize terroir-driven Wachau DAC site typicity. Its benchmark portfolio includes single-vineyard expressions from Ried Kellerberg, Loibenberg, and Steinertal, alongside the cult cuvées 'M' and the transcendent 'Unendlich'.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling
🍷 ABV
13% - 14%