Riesling Smaragd 2015

96/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2016/17
Mittleres Gelbgrün, Silberreflexe. Feine Anklänge von Maracuja, ein Hauch von Steinobst und Blütenhonig, zart nach Orangenzesten. Kraftvoll, straff, engmaschig, gelbe Tropenfrucht, extraktsüßer Nachhall, mineralischer Touch, sicheres Reifepotenzial.

93-94/100 Robert Parker Jun 2016
The 2015 Riesling Smaragd Dürnsteiner Kellerberg displays a clear, ripe and concentrated bouquet of white fruits intermixed with crystalline flavors of the weathered gneiss and granite soils. Full-bodied, piquant and full of tension, this is a stunningly clear and refreshing Smaragds from a warm year. The alcohol is well hidden and the finish is very long and vibrantly fresh. There is a lot of mineral tension and music in this wine that should be cellared for another five or six years.

95-96/100 Punkte Vinous Feb 2017
A pungently smoky, incisive, savory mélange of sage, dark tobacco and black pepper is allied to ripe peach and garlanded with heliotrope in a head-turningly intense nose. That full range of elements reprises on a polished palate, whose textural caress and sweet sense of ripeness are combined with welcome, tangy, chewy counterpoint of peach skin and a refreshingly juicy squirt of fresh lime. The finish offers a mouthwateringly prolonged, kaleidoscopic interaction of fruity, savory and smoky elements plenty rich, yet with rare cut and animation for its vintage.