2024 | Prager Klaus Riesling Smaragd | Wachau Borgo Maragliano This is the first vintage

This is the first vintage with the appellation printed on the label

The finish appears saline

Opening with aromas of blackberry jam

with pronounced citrus and mineral notes

A good lineup of fruit flavours are joined by sweet softness through the mid-palate that widens things out rather than dips

2024 | Prager Klaus Riesling Smaragd | Wachau Borgo Maragliano This is the first vintageThe 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