https://www.winerambler.net/ en https://www.winerambler.net/wine/f-x-pichler-riesling-smaragd-loibner-steinertal-2003 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">F. X. Pichler, Riesling Smaragd, Loibner Steinertal, 2003</span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>FX - for most people these letters stands for excitement, explosions and all sorts of sparkles. The same is true for fans of Austrian wine, just that they don't think of digital visual or sound effects, they think of Franz Xaver (Pichler)'s Wachau wines. On 16ha of vineyard land in what to me is one of the underrated wine regions in Europe, the Pichlers grow Grüner Veltliner and Riesling (plus a little Sauvignon Blanc), and over the years have managed to build up an excellent reputation.</p> <p><img alt="FX Riesing label, photographed when I still saw green outside my window" src="https://www.winerambler.net/sites/default/files/images/pichler_smaragd_2003_label.jpg" width="500" height="331" align="center" class="inline inline-center" /></p> <p>Because of all the praise for the Pichler wines, I was confident I would not just get fancy special effects from their 2003 Smaragd Riesling - or would I?</p> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="https://www.winerambler.net/users/torsten" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">torsten</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Friday, 25/11/2011</span> <div class="node__links"> <ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="https://www.winerambler.net/wine/f-x-pichler-riesling-smaragd-loibner-steinertal-2003" rel="tag" title="F. X. Pichler, Riesling Smaragd, Loibner Steinertal, 2003" hreflang="und">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about F. X. Pichler, Riesling Smaragd, Loibner Steinertal, 2003</span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="https://www.winerambler.net/wine/f-x-pichler-riesling-smaragd-loibner-steinertal-2003#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="und">2 comments</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="https://www.winerambler.net/taxonomy/term/1057/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1322854620" data-history-node-field-name="comment_node_wine"></a></li><li class="comment-add"><a href="https://www.winerambler.net/comment/reply/node/1543/comment_node_wine#comment-form" title="Share your thoughts and opinions." hreflang="und">Add new comment</a></li></ul> </div> Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:32:59 +0000 torsten 1543 at https://www.winerambler.net