Vinous about ALZINGER
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Leo Alzinger Jr. says his aim was to “refine the cool, precise style” his parents forged. The wines are made in stainless steel and large, used barrels. They are taut and slender, with vivid freshness and crystalline clarity—hair-raising Rieslings of immense purity and elegance. This is the estate that makes Grüner Veltliner for Riesling lovers and Riesling for specialists.
Anne Krebiehl MW, February 2024 See detailed press review
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ALZINGER
Grüner Veltliner Dürnstein Federspiel 2024
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Austria, Niederösterreich
495893 | 6 x 750ml | Speculative
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$54.60
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- 92 points -
Falstaff, June 2025 (Vintage 2024)
Light yellow-green, silver reflections. Fresh apple fruit with a hint of lime, delicate notes of meadow herbs, mineral touch. Complex, juicy, fine pome fruit nuances, finely structured, fruity style, delicate blossom honey on the finish.
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ALZINGER
Grüner Veltliner Mühlpoint Federspiel 2024
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Austria, Niederösterreich
949297 | 6 x 750ml | Speculative
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$61.11
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- 92 points -
James Suckling, October 2025 (Vintage 2024)
Sliced pears, grapefruit, white pepper and fennel on the nose of this bright, lively white. It’s medium-bodied with charming spicy hints to the fresh fruit. Good weight.
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ALZINGER
Grüner Veltliner Loibenberg Smaragd 2024
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Austria, Niederösterreich
85076 | 6 x 750ml | Speculative
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$89.70
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5 case(s) available See detailed product page
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(95-97) Points
Vinous, May 2025 (Vintage 2024)
The 2024 Grüner Veltliner Loibenberg Smaragd comes from a parcel of loess atop gneiss bedrock in the midslope of the south-facing site. The nose is shy, showing just a hint of savory yeast. With more air, a touch of fern emerges. The palate offers almost a Riesling-like lightness, with direction and verve that belie the loess. There is lovely balance, slight savor and exquisite tension.
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ALZINGER
Grüner Veltliner Steinertal Smaragd 2024
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Austria, Niederösterreich
310370 | 6 x 750ml | Speculative
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$113.10
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5 case(s) available See detailed product page
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(95-98) Points
Vinous, May 2025 (Vintage 2024)
The 2024 Grüner Veltliner Steinertal Smaragd, situated between two lateral valleys that channel cool air, gives this terraced site of gneiss higher day-to-night amplitude and lower daytime temperatures. Gentle spice brings white pepper and crushed fern on the nose. The palate arrives with perfect tension, peppery fern, fine citrus freshness and beautiful concentration. Citrus is key this year on this wonderfully long and incisive Grüner.
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ALZINGER
Riesling Durnstein Federspiel 2024
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Austria, Niederösterreich
495901 | 6 x 750ml | Cross dock
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$61.99
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- 93 points -
Falstaff, June 2025 (Vintage 2024)
Light yellow-green, silver reflections. Fresh yellow tropical fruit, a hint of passion fruit and white flowers, inviting bouquet. Textured, crisp, white peach, lively structure, mineral and harmonious, fine summery style, makes you want more.
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About ALZINGER
Weingut Alzinger is located on a magnificent stretch of the Danube 65km west of Vienna, on a majestic bend where the great river sweeps past Unterloiben in the region of Wachau. This is surely one of the most spectacular wine regions in the world, so stunningly beautiful that it has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which as the Alzinger website proudly proclaims, makes it “coequal to the pyramids of Giza, the Taj Mahal, and the Great Wall of China “. This is a very special terroir, with the precipitous south-facing cliffs of the Waldviertel soaring to a height of 500 metres – as steep as the Mosel between Bernkastel and Zeltingen and considerably higher. No wonder there is such a concentration of great wine names: Alzinger’s Wachau neighbours include Knoll, F X Pichler, Hirtzberger, Jamek and Prager,as well as the renowned Freie Weingartner Coop.
The landscape is a patchwork of small terraced vineyards, combining steep rocky hillsides with full exposure (typically the preserve of Riesling) and lower less well-exposed silty/loess sites where gruner veltlner thrives. Interestingly, Alzinger’s Loibenberg Smaragd gruner veltliner is from a prime higher- altitude site, higher than both the Steinertal and Hohereck Smaragd rieslings. ‘Smaragd’ (literally meaning ‘emerald’ but referring to a beautiful green lizard that suns itself in sunny vineyards; pronounced more or less ‘smar-act’) is a designation that indicates fully ripe wines of at least 12.5% alcohol and less than 8g/L residual sugar; stylistically it is somewhere between a dry German Spatlese or Auslese and a late-picked rich but not sweet Alsatian wine. The wines from top producers are simply astonishing; there is a very good reason that Austrian wines have become so super-fashionable in the last decade.
The Alzinger philosophy is ‘to simply let every vineyard express its personality’. The wines magically combine very distinct minerality, charming fruit, and elegance. They are so refined and understated that Terry Theise has said “you wouldn’t be surprised if the cellar master was the Dalai Lama”.
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