Leo Alzinger, Steinertal Riesling Smaragd, Wachau

Leo Alzinger · Niederosterreich › Wachau › Austria

White · Riesling
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LWIN 1329478
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92 /100
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13
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Taster #8896 · Mar 25, 2026
Deep yellow. Early secondary aromas, strong stone fruit, and candied ginger. Medium weight, certainly not a monster. Perhaps the barest hint of RS, but essentially dry, mouth watering acidity, beautifully fresh peach, and a mineral drenched finish. Fantastic, elegant Riesling that still has legs.
2007 vintage
Taster #3365 · May 25, 2020
94/100
Peach, petrol, and tart stone fruit on the nose. Great acidity on the palate with more peach, a hint of lemon, and a somewhat oily texture. Quite complex and long on the finish. Just an excellent Riesling, drinking perfectly right now.
2007 vintage
Taster #3365 · Nov 26, 2019
95/100
Perfectly mature and complex nose of tropical fruit, petrol, pineapple, and oranges. Good acidity with meyer lemon and passion fruit flavors on the palate. Long finish. An outstanding Austrian Riesling and fantastic QPR!
2007 vintage
Taster #3121 · Jun 5, 2018
95/100
This is such a gorgeous dry Riesling... High-pitched citrus notes on top of a concentrated, unctuous, superripe palate and dito bouquet of lemon oil, apricot, smoke, tropical flowers, licorice-powder ('salmiak'), bloodorange bitterness and all kinds of musky, savory goodness. Really great!
2007 vintage
Taster #5840 · Feb 17, 2017
92/100
Rieslingfeier 2017; 2/17/2017-2/18/2017 (NYC) : apple, wet stone, rose, baked apple, some tropical (mango? pineapple?) notes, and a little doughiness. not showing very much age as of yet, this has a long road yet ahead. medium finish shows baked apple flavors. very nice.
2007 vintage
Taster #3217 · Feb 17, 2017
90/100
Rieslingfeier 207 Seminar:"Different Strokes for Different Slopes: Germany and Austria" (Craft Restaurant (Private Dining Room), New York, NY) : Ripe with honey peach and herbs. Odd on the palate - flavor muted some but quite ripe in feel - soft, very honeyed. more mature - herbs peach and honey on finish. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 4.5/6, Finish - 4.5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 15/20.
2007 vintage
Taster #0986 · Apr 13, 2016
Oxidized...
2007 vintage
Taster #3365 · May 17, 2015
94/100
Perfumed nose of white flowers, exotic fruit, honey, and ripe pear. Great palate with honey and melon. Well balanced and long finish.
2007 vintage
Taster #0203 · Feb 27, 2015
89/100
maybe a bit over the top
2007 vintage
Taster #7045 · Jun 13, 2013
Restrained aromas of wet stone and lime. Elusive flavors of pineapple and lime with mineral notes and a hint of vanilla.
2007 vintage
Taster #3121 · Jun 7, 2013
Preparing for our next Dreamtasting @ Thijs' (Netherlands) : Spicy, white pepper, very opulent. Definately broader, more expansive than German GG's. Near oily mouthfeel. Great wine. (+)
2007 vintage
Taster #9573 · Jun 7, 2013
92/100
Tasting with good frends. (@ MatH) : Beautiful bouquet with white fruits, tart grapefruit and lime. On the palate a beautiful play between sweetness and acidity. Yellow tropical fruits. Complex and a good length. Great wine.
2007 vintage
Taster #2393 · Sep 14, 2011
93/100
Steinertal Vertical (Seasonal) : Really fresh and icy, not showing the stony minerality that some of the other vintages did, but very focused and acute. More of that pixelated sensation as it sits in the glass. This pairing probably showed a more dramatic style contrast with the Pichler than the others: this wine was leaner, maybe more lithe, and higher-pitched.
2007 vintage
Taster #9635 · Sep 14, 2011
91/100
Steinertals at Seasonal (Seasonal, NYC) : Comes across rather closed and reticent, offering little aromatically but it's much more expressive in the mouth with pure, pale complexioned fruit that seems to be sculpted from stone and ice. Becomes more accessible with air, but seems more about promise right now.
2007 vintage
Taster #3985 · Jul 30, 2011
91/100
Sublime
2007 vintage
Taster #2393 · Mar 1, 2009
98/100
Another vintage, another incredible Steinertal. This is just as extra-vinous as the '06 was but more lean and lithe. This tastes like it was vinified from metallic rock with the fruit merely giving it some spring-like freshness. It's more focused on that zone than the '06 was, which seemed packed with everything, and also much lighter in complexion and weight. This is the ninja.
2007 vintage
Taster #3381 · Jun 1, 2008
88/100
VieVinum (Hofburg Wien, Vienna, Austria) : fruchtige Nase; ein wenig mineralisch am Gaumen, sehr langer Abgang
2007 vintage