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Low dosage (around 6 g/L) preserves the wine's tension and minerality
serious but still vibrant
or other classicists who like their Syrah unpolished but precise
Pour it cool in a small glass after dinner
Franz Hirtzberger, Riesling Ried Steinporz Smaragd, 2024 german_wines-template Low dosage (around 6 g/L)Steinporz is one of the great primary rock crus of Spitz, and in Hirtzberger's hands it makes a Smaragd Riesling that's more vertical than wide all elevation, mineral, and lift. The site is steep, terraced, gneiss based; the wines are built around tension rather than richness. 2024 delivered a vintage of poise and clarity, and this bottle shows it: stone fruit edged in citrus zest, a wash of crushed rock, the savory mineral grip that Wachau Smaragd
