2024 Riesling Klaus Smaragd
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Full bottle just 1,253 g. RS 1.5 g/l, TA 7.5 g/l. Very different from their minerally Achleiten, this is almost nutty on the nose. Then broad, fresh and tingly on the palate with the acidity well in evidence and very obvious structure. I'd drink this after the Achleiten, possibly cellaring it for at least a year, though there is no hurry at all to drink it. Lifted and racy. (JR)
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Jancis Robinson MW
Anne Krebiehl MW, Vinous
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The 2024 Riesling Ried Klaus Smaragd, from a site chiefly composed of dark amphibolite, is all wet stone with a vestige of flint, but otherwise shy. The palate is equally slow to reveal itself in its stony demeanor, yet unfolds into a bright, ripe lemon tone of exquisite purity and poise, seemingly emanating from the dark stone. Somehow naked, yet absolutely disarming in its unadorned, stony state.