Franz Hirtzberger, Riesling Hochrain Smaragd, 2024 still macabeo Arnot-Roberts - Duncan Arnot Meyers

Arnot-Roberts - Duncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Lee Roberts

this wine consistently delivers the house’s signature style—bright

Roserock Chardonnay has made the Wine Spectator Top 100 list twice

with dark soil

faintly honeyed register

Franz Hirtzberger, Riesling Hochrain Smaragd, 2024 still macabeo Arnot-Roberts - Duncan Arnot MeyersAnother of Hirtzberger's celebrated Spitz crus, this one with a slightly different signature Hochrain sits on weathered crystalline rock with a thin overlay of sandy loam, which gives the Smaragd a touch more flesh than its purely gneiss bound siblings. Still unmistakably Wachau: cool, mineral, vertical, built for the long haul. 2024 brought clarity and tension to the vineyard, and the result is a Riesling that opens with white peach and apricot