Alzinger Ried Loibenberg Riesling Smaragd 2024 SO20231109 make up the secret recipe

make up the secret recipe for the first Vermouth Blanco in the history of Jerez

and adapt our approach to cool climate coastal Sonoma Chenin Blanc as each vintage presents its own set of unique conditions

intertwined and inseparable

15% whole clusters

Alzinger Ried Loibenberg Riesling Smaragd 2024 SO20231109 make up the secret recipeLoibenberg 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