2011 F.X. Pichler Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Ried Loibenberg

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  8/29/2023 - honest bob wrote: 92 Points

  From 75cl, perfect cork, P+P, improved in the glass. Just edging into full maturity, but no signs of tiredness. Highly polished GV Smaragd with all the typical varietal descriptors in spades. Fat, heft and emollient texture are there, but cut with fine ripe acid and a weighty minerality. Superb now–2028. 92P

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  6/22/2022 - cjsadler Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Petrol and ripe apples. Not terribly complex, but still a nice wine with life left.

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  6/26/2020 - honest bob wrote: 91 Points

  From 75cl, perfect cork. Vivid, large-scale, structured GV Smaragd with the texture (not the taste!) of dreamy ripe canteloupe melon. Big fat mid-palate, cut with bright tropical acidity and white pepper. If I have a winge, it is that this is perfumed, I mean like Chanel No. 5, and soft-skinned, I mean like the models in the ads for Chanel No. 5. If you take Robert Parker's famous remark "the Chateau Latour of the Wachau" seriously, this just doesn't fit. More like Lafite? For Latour-like ruggedness and big bones, I'd be looking at Rudi Pichler, or perhaps Knoll, instead. Fully mature now, but no hurry. 91P

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  9/25/2019 - honest bob wrote: 91 Points

  From 75cl, perfect cork, opened but not decanted 1 hour. Big fat melting GV Smaragd in early maturity. Much more enjoyable than the Boris Johnson-style Incredible Hulk Riesling from the same producer, same vineyard designation, same year (my CT TN 10.09.2019). Highly recommended. 91P

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  1/11/2014 - botrytisvirtuoso1819 wrote: 100 Points

  nose; gun metal, white peaches, cigar tobacco, and pine sap.
  palate; bay leaf, white pepper, peat, and strawberry-rhubarb pie.
  full bodied.
  medium plus acidity.
  60 plus second finish.
  everyone should be drinking more gruner veltliner.
  and with wines like this one, it's a no brainer.
  this wine clearly show's why F.X. Pichler is regarded as one of the best in Austria.
  any serious wine drinker should try one.

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