2024 | Prager Klaus Riesling Smaragd | Wachau Michel Delhommeau bitter finish creates balance

bitter finish creates balance

The finale is long with notes of burnt butter and toast

In fact only the slowness

Aromas of talc powder

It goes on for so long

2024 | Prager Klaus Riesling Smaragd | Wachau Michel Delhommeau bitter finish creates balanceThe 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. 97 Pts Vinous