2024 | Weingut Franz Hirtzberger Chardonnay Smaragd | Wachau | Austria Marlborough yet remains vivid and polished

yet remains vivid and polished

there is an incredible sense of tension between soft acidity and lavish tannins

This Chardonnay comes from the dry-farmed Escolle Vineyard on an elevated bench of the Santa Lucia Highlands — a historic site established in 1878

Smaragd-ripe → the estate's Rieslings are worshiped worldwide → at $90

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2024 | Weingut Franz Hirtzberger Chardonnay Smaragd | Wachau | Austria Marlborough yet remains vivid and polishedA rare dry Chardonnay from a Wachau grand master the top "Smaragd" tier, concentrated and mineral. Weingut Franz Hirtzberger, in Spitz, is one of the two pillars of the Wachau, five generations tending vines planted since the 13th century. Best known for profound Riesling and Grner Veltliner, the estate also makes a small amount of dry Chardonnay in the top Smaragd ripeness category organic, concentrated and stony, a Wachau icon's rare take on the