M Riesling Smaragd
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted goose, spicy Asian cuisine, rich seafood dishes with cream sauces
✨ Technical Specifications
F.X. Pichler's 'M' designation represents the pinnacle of concentration and power. While more famously associated with their Grüner Veltliner, the Riesling Smaragd 'M' is an extraordinary, rare bottling crafted only in select vintages. The 'M' stands for monumental, a fitting description for a wine born from late-harvested, extremely ripe grapes selected from the estate's top terraced sites in the Wachau, such as the legendary Loibenberg and Kellerberg. These steep, stone-terraced vineyards capture intense heat during the day, while cool night winds from the Waldviertel preserve vital acidity. The winemaking process involves meticulous hand-selection, brief skin contact, and slow fermentation in large, neutral Austrian oak casks. This produces a dry Riesling of immense structural scale, combining rich, exotic fruit notes with a deep, vibrating mineral backbone and incredible longevity.
🍾 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
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
13.5-14.5%