Reserve M Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted goose, spicy Sichuan cuisine, mature hard cheeses
✨ Technical Specifications
The 'M' in F.X. Pichler's Reserve 'M' Riesling stands for 'Monumental,' a fitting descriptor for a wine born from a meticulous selection of the estate's most concentrated, late-harvested grapes. Sourced primarily from the steep, sun-drenched stone terraces of the Loibenberg vineyard in the Wachau, this rare bottling is only produced in exceptional vintages. Here, the dramatic interplay between warm Pannonian air currents and cool breezes from the Waldviertel forest yields grapes of extraordinary physiological ripeness and vibrant acidity. In the cellar, Lucas Pichler employs traditional large oak casks to foster a slow, natural fermentation, preserving the intense, crystalline minerality of the primary rock soils while allowing the wine's massive structure and complex stone fruit notes to seamlessly integrate. It represents the absolute peak of power, depth, and age-worthiness in Austrian Riesling.
🍾 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%