Alzinger Ried Loibenberg Riesling Smaragd 2024 Consignment is just as deft with

is just as deft with the crus as she is with everyday Beaujolais

with silken supporting tannins

Mezcal infused with toasted heirloom corn—a celebration spirit honoring the cultural importance of both corn and agave in rural Mexico

The result is darker-fruited and more textural than Byron's straight Carneros Pinot

left Armenia at eighteen to study winemaking in Switzerland

Alzinger Ried Loibenberg Riesling Smaragd 2024 Consignment is just as deft withLoibenberg is the warmest of the great Wachau sites, a wall of sun baked terraces climbing 200 meters above the Danube on barren primary rock. Leo Alzinger farms it for tension as much as power, and this Smaragd, the ripest dry tier in the region, threads concentration through a frame that stays nervy and precise. Spontaneously fermented and raised in steel with a touch of neutral Austrian oak, it shows what Wachau Riesling can do when nobody gets in