2020 | Weingut Prager | Stockkultur Achleiten Gruner Veltliner

White Wine: 2020 | Weingut Prager | Stockkultur Achleiten Gruner Veltliner

Extremely aromatic, with aromas ranging from jasmine to orange zest and tobacco leaf. Very concentrated, with remarkable ripeness for the challenging 2020 vintage.

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Producer: Weingut Prager

Ratings: WA | 96 JS | 96

Vintage: 2020

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Gruner Veltliner

Country/Region: Austria, Wachau

Extremely aromatic, with aromas ranging from jasmine to orange zest and tobacco leaf. Very concentrated, with remarkable ripeness for the challenging 2020 vintage. Excellent integration of ripe fruit, fine tannins and saline minerality at the long, polished finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: From vines planted in 1937 and picked as the first of the Smaragd wines, the 2020 Ried Achleiten Grner Veltliner Smaragd Stockkultur (planted with 15,000 vines per hectare) opens with a spectacular deep and complex but refined, fresh and flinty bouquet with intense, ripe pear and biscuit aromas. On the palate, this is a dense and lush yet pure, elegant and complex, wide and powerful but also mineral Achleiten with a long, finely tannic and still sweet finish (due to more than 30 grams per liter of dry extract). Tasted at the domaine in June 2021.

• James Suckling: Extremely aromatic, with aromas ranging from jasmine to orange zest and tobacco leaf. Very concentrated, with remarkable ripeness for the challenging 2020 vintage. Excellent integration of ripe fruit, fine tannins and saline minerality at the long, polished finish. From vines planted in 1937. Drink or hold.

Producer Information

Weingut Prager is one of the oldest wine estates in the Wachau region of Austria, dating back to at least 1302. The winery itself was founded in 1715 and is best known for its single-vineyard bottlings of Riesling and Grner Veltliner. Franz Prager, now retired, dedicated his career to producing quality wines that are expressive of terroir and was a leading advocate for improved wine quality in the Wachau. Prager helped establish the Vinea Wachau Nobilis Districtus association in 1983 and served as chairman until 1988. During this time, Weingut Prager already owned some of the top crus of the Wachau region, including the vineyards Achleiten and Steinrigl. The estate now owns 16.5 hectares (40 acres) in some of the region’s best vineyards and produces eight single-vineyard Rieslings and seven single-vineyard Grner Veltliners at the Federspeil and Smaragd levels. The soil composition of each of Weingut Prager’s vineyards is diverse. This ranges from silty and calcareous loam, which is well-suited to Grner Veltliner, to mica schist and gneiss, which is better for Riesling. Harvest at Weingut Prager is done by hand in multiple tries to avoid harvesting botrytis-infected grapes. At the winery, grapes are typically destemmed and fermented with indigenous yeasts. Wines are fermented and aged in stainless steel.