FX Pichler Austrian Wine Offering - The Best Price in The World on the 2021 Vintage and all the FX Pichler wines in the store on SALE!!
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
M.F.K. FISHER, introduction, Vin et Fromage
Four thousand years of winemaking history counted for little after the "antifreeze scandal" of 1985, when it was revealed that some wine brokers had been adulterating their wines with diethylene glycol. The scandal destroyed the market for Austrian bulk wine and compelled Austria to reposition itself as a producer of quality wines. This scandal also affected the German wines that were consumed within Germany as most of the locals now wanted "Trocken" or dry wines to ensure that they were not being served tainted wines.
We do not send out enough offerings out on white wines in general but the great whites of Austria deserve some attention. We have a small selection of Austrian whites in the store and one producer who we buy every vintage without tasting is F.X. Pichler.
The wines speak volumes about the potential of quality in Austria as they are some of the best whites you will find of their type and style. These wines focus on time and place where hard work in the vineyards trumps anything that can happen in the winery. Check out the best that Austria has to offer at the best prices on Earth for the 2021 vintage! We also have a great selection of older vintages from this great producer on SALE!!
F.X Pichler 2021 Vintage wines at the lowest price in the World!!
2021 F.X. Pichler Durnsteiner Gruner Veltliner Smaragd, Wachau, Austria
Price: $45.00 Your Price: $29.00 Quantity in Stock: 60
The Grüner Veltliner displays a very typical, Grüner bouquet of spicy herbs and white pepper.
Wines bearing the name of DÜRNSTEIN refer to the designation of origin of some fabulous village wines. Under this name we bottle wines from grapes hand-picked from a selection of terraced mountain vineyards. The grapes derive predominantly from younger plots, or from sites not harvested for a “Ried” single-vineyard growth wine, and from vineyards in the plains around the municipality of Dürnstein. This vineyard blend is enticing and invigorating, with sappy and subtle mineral characters.
2021 FX PICHLER GRUNER VELTLINER RIED KELLERBERG SMARAGD WACHAU, AUSTRIA
Price: $109.00 Your Price: $69.00 Quantity in Stock: 36
(95 points) "The 2021 Dürnsteiner Grüner Veltliner Ried Kellerberg offers a deep, clear, complex yet refined and refreshing, remarkably coolish and herbal "forest" bouquet with notes of wet stones and crushed green leaves. The fruit aromas are dark forest berries (cassis) rather than yellow stone fruits at this early stage. On the palate, this is a full-bodied yet incredibly pure and fresh, crystalline, saline and highly elegant Kellerberg with substance, well-dosed power and lingering salinity and phenolic tension. Far from being big and voluminous, this is a rather lean, elegant and finessed but tightly woven and very long Kellerberg that will unfold even more layers with longer bottle age. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in September 2022. (SR)" (12/2022) Wine Advocate
2021 F.X. Pichler Loibner Steinertal Gruner Veltliner Smaragd, Wachau, Austria
Price: $99.00 Your Price: $65.00 Quantity in Stock: 12
(94 Points) "From the coolest vineyard of the crus here and based on destemmed and macerated fruits, Pichler's 2021 Loibner Grüner Veltliner Ried Steinertal was vinified in stainless steel, aged in large oak until July and bottled in August and offers a clear, refined and elegant, indeed coolish bouquet of bright fruits. Full-bodied and intense on the palate, this is a gentle, very fine and elegant Steinertal with a dense core and an almost velvety texture. The acidity is fine and perfectly interwoven and the tannins are remarkably delicate. The finish is long and intense and shows stimulating bitters, but against all trends, there is not phenolic grip, which is what we often find in the Danube Veltliners of the 2021 vintage, but fine and healthy grip." — Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate (December 2022)
2021 F.X. Pichler Loibner Steinertal Riesling Smaragd, Wachau, Austria
Price: $99.00 Your Price: $65.00 Quantity in Stock: 24
(94 points) "Bottled in August, the 2021 Loibner Riesling Ried Steinertal offers a fascinating but also intense and elegant bouquet of lemon fruit and baby pineapple aromas intertwined with notes of crushed flint stones and even iodine. Round and lush but bone dry and straight on the palate, this is pure but mouth-filling, very elegant, aromatic and super attractive Riesling whose fruit is reminiscent of a perfectly ripe and lush pineapple. The finish is linear, fine and pure, very long, tight and bitter yet highly stimulating. This is a spectacularly good 2021 bottled with a moderate 12.5% alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in September 2022. (SR)" (12/2022) Wine Advocate
2021 F.X. Pichler Ried Loibenberg Riesling Smaragd, Wachau, Austria
Price: $75.00 Your Price: $66.00 Quantity in Stock: 32
(96 Points) FX Pichler's 2021 Loibner Riesling Ried Loibenberg is deep, highly complex and coolish on the nose, offering just-ripe mango and apricot aromas with ripe pumpkin seeds as well as notes of crystalline rocks. On the palate, this is a dense, crystalline and precise, tight and intense, even powerful yet not mighty or alcoholic Riesling with insanely concentrated but just-ripe and tight fruit with healthy phenolic grip and great tension. This is another stellar wine of the vintage in the Wachau and, mind you, from one of the warmest crus around. It's a great wine that Riesling lovers shouldn't miss. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in September 2022.—Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate
All the older vintage wines from F.X. Pichler on SALE!!
2020 F.X. Pichler Loibner Ried Steinertal Riesling Wachau, Austria
Price: $65.00 Your Price: $57.20 Quantity in Stock: 13
(93-94 points) The 2020 Ried Steinertal Riesling opens coolish and fresh, with lime aromas on the precise and finely flinty nose that also reveals some fresh pineapple stem and white/green vineyard peach aromas with a touch of paprika. Crystalline, elegant and juicy-piquant, with concentrated fruit, the 2020 Steinertal Riesling is carried by demanding acidity to long, dense, aromatic finish with stimulating tannin grip. The wine is compact and close-meshed but also juicy. Tasted as a sample in June 2021. To be bottled in July. 2020 is the first vintage Lucas Pichler doesn't use the predicates of the Vinea anymore since he left the group earlier this year. (SR)" (12/2021) Wine Advocate
2020 F.X. Pichler Loibner Ried Burgstall Riesling Wachau, Austria
Price: $40.00 Your Price: $35.20 Quantity in Stock: 18
(92 points) "Reveals apple, peach and white tea notes that show nice lushness, expertly offset by chalky texture and crunchy, steely acidity. Beautiful in form and very poised, with mineral power driving length. Reveals a whiff of acacia and fennel on the bitter-tinged finish. Drink now through 2030." (8/2023) Wine Spectator
2020 F.X. Pichler 'Unendlich' Riesling Wachau, Austria
Price: $285.00 Your Price: $250.80 Quantity in Stock: 4
(95-96 points) "Pichler’s most iconic wine! The 2020 Riesling Unendlich comes entirely from the Kellerberg this year and is based on the more raisined grapes that were picked in the same go with the regular Kellerberg Riesling due to the fear of spreading rot. The bouquet shows intense and dense fruit of ripe and juicy white peach aromas as well as noble raisin aromas. Juicy-piquant, with crystalline and salty acidity, this is a powerful and very concentrated yet rather classic Unendlich with a firm, close-meshed structure. This 2020 is still very, very young, and I am curious to taste this Unendlich again after the bottling and closer to its release in spring next year. Tasted as a sample in June 2021, to be bottled in July and to be released in May 2022. 2020 is the first vintage Lucas Pichler doesn't use the predicates of the Vinea anymore since he left the group earlier this year. (SR)" (12/2021) Wine Advocate
2020 F.X. Pichler Loibner Loibenberg Riesling Wachau, Austria
Price: $65.00 Your Price: $57.20 Quantity in Stock: 3
(93-95 points) "The 2020 Ried Loibenberg Riesling opens very spicy, fresh and almost hard, with intense aromas of white peaches and apricots. Dense, intense and powerful on the palate, this is a massive, close-meshed and tannin-rich Riesling with concentrated juice yet a still-bitter, dry grippy finish. This 2020 needs some years to extract its talents, which are there, but at this early stage it is pretty difficult to give an exact forecast. Tasted as a sample in June 2021, to be bottled in July. 2020 is the first vintage Lucas Pichler doesn't use the predicates of the Vinea anymore since he left the group earlier this year. (SR)" (12/2021) Wine Advocate
2020 FX Pichler Gruner Veltliner Ried Liebenberg Wachau Austria
Price: $84.00 Your Price: $73.92 Quantity in Stock: 33
(94 Points) From calcareous soils with amphibolite the 2019 Ried Liebenberg Grüner Veltliner Smaragd is very clear and fine on the complex and refreshing nose with ripe pineapple and lemon aromas. Dense and juicy on the palate this is a dense juicy and beautifully piquant but very ripe and lush Veltliner with a highly aromatic finish yet also this remarkably fresh acidity. Stimulatingly salty on the aftertaste. 13.5% alcohol. Tasted at the domain in June 2021. Wine Advocate
2019 FX Pichler Ried Steinertal Riesling Smaragd Wachau, Austria
Price: $75.00 Your Price: $66.00 Quantity in Stock: 11
(94 points) The 2019 Ried Steinertal Riesling Smaragd is from the terraced part of the cru and combines coolish but ripe and concentrated white peach stone fruit aromas with flinty-crystalline terroir aromas. Full-bodied and intense but also refreshing, with piquant and salty acidity and persistent crisp stone fruit aromas, this is a densely textured., very intense but always stimulating Steinertal Riesling that reflects the coolish terroir of this vineyard between Pfaffenberg and Loibenberg. 13% alcohol. Tasted at the domain in June 2021. (SR) (12/2021) Wine Advocate
2019 FX Pichler Riesling Ried Kellerberg Smaragd WACHAU, AUSTRIA
Price: $105.00 Your Price: $92.40 Quantity in Stock: 4
(97 points) The 2019 Ried Kellerberg Riesling Smaragd shows a beautifully ripe and aromatic Muscat aroma in the beginning but also the deep and flinty complexity of the cooler, southeast-facing part of Pichler’s terraced Kellerberg that is close to the forest. Round, lush and intense, again with super aromatic fruit aromas (peaches, passion fruit), amazing finesse and salty crystallinity, this is one of the most fascinating Kellerberg Rieslings I have had. Absolutely adorable in its freshness, elegance and perfect fruit ripeness. A Must Buy for Wachau fans. 13.5% alcohol. Tasted at the domain in June 2021. (SR) (12/2021) Wine Advocate
2019 FX PICHLER RIESLING RIED BURGSTALL FEDERSPIEL AUSTRIA
Price: $40.00 Your Price: $35.20 Quantity in Stock: 5
Pale yellow. Aromas of yellow and green apples, apricots, and almond. On the palate, fresh, delicious, and exceptionally balanced. A precise dry Riesling with exquisite concentration and tension.
2019 FX Pichler Gruner Veltliner Ried Liebenberg Smaragd Wachau, Austria
Price: $72.00 Your Price: $63.36 Quantity in Stock: 11
(94 Points) From calcareous soils with amphibolite the 2019 Ried Liebenberg Grüner Veltliner Smaragd is very clear and fine on the complex and refreshing nose with ripe pineapple and lemon aromas. Dense and juicy on the palate this is a dense juicy and beautifully piquant but very ripe and lush Veltliner with a highly aromatic finish yet also this remarkably fresh acidity. Stimulatingly salty on the aftertaste. 13.5% alcohol. Tasted at the domain in June 2021. Wine Advocate
2019 FX PICHLER GRUNER VELTLINER RIED LOIBENBERG SMARAGD WACHAU, AUSTRIA
Price: $72.00 Your Price: $63.36 Quantity in Stock: 11
(95 Points) From the oldest vineyards of the domain the 2019 Ried Loibenberg Grüner Veltliner Smaragd opens with a finely flinty bouquet of ripe mirabelles and crushed stones. Mouthfilling and rich but also fresh and mineral with remarkable finesse and precision this is a very elegant and refined Loibenberg from the middle of the slope and partly from the bottom of the slope. A great Veltliner form the warmest cru Lucas Pichler cultivates. 14% alcohol. Tasted at the domain in June 2021. Wine Advocate
2018 FX Pichler Riesling Durnsteiner Smaragd
Price: $48.00 Your Price: $42.24 Quantity in Stock: 4
(88 Points) From the Oberhauser lieu-dit in the Klostersatz, Trum, Steinertal, Loibenberg and Kellerberg, Pichler's 2018 Dürnsteiner Riesling Smaragd is clear, fresh and piquant on the apricot-compote nose. Lush and piquant on the palate, this is a more textured, lush and juicy Riesling that's gorgeous, tight and grippy, with some Muscat flavors on the finish. Tasted at the domain in September 2019. Wine Advocate
2018 Pichler Gruner Veltliner Durnsteiner Smaragd
Price: $42.00 Your Price: $36.96 Quantity in Stock: 4
(90 Points) "From the first harvest pass in all the terraces (from younger vines) and from riper fruits in the flat area, the 2018 Dürnsteiner Grüner Veltliner Smaragd is clear, bright and white-fruited on the spicy-elegant nose. On the palate, this is a full-bodied but also fresh and piquant Veltliner Smaragd with good grip and nice bitters. Tasted at the domain in September 2019." — Stephen Reinhardt, Wine Advocate (March 2020)
2018 FX Pichler Riesling Ried Loibenberg Smaragd
Price: $67.50 Your Price: $59.40 Quantity in Stock: 11
(92 Points) "The 2018 Ried Loibenberg Riesling Smaragd is clear, ripe and elegant on the nose, with ripe and lush apricot, mango and very fine flinty aromas. On the palate, this is a ripe, round and charming Riesling with a full body, rich extract and mouth-filling palate. More compote than fresh and coolish fruit aromas here. Tasted at the domain in September 2019." — Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate (March 2020)
2018 FX Pichler Gruner Veltliner Ried Loibenberg Smaragd
Price: $66.00 Your Price: $58.08 Quantity in Stock: 8
(93 points) Difficult to pick in time, the 2018 Ried Loibenberg Grüner Veltliner Smaragd offers a clear, fresh and flinty, elegant and balanced nose with riper fruit and delicately spicy aromas. Round, lush and intense on the palate, this full-bodied but elegant wine reveals a long and powerful finish that doesn't lose its freshness and elegance. The wine has good structure and phenolic grip but no phenolic or drying bitters. It combines elegance and freshness with power and extraordinarily ripe but still precise fruit. Pichler holds nine parcels in this large vineyard, of which the most are in the central part and in lower areas. Tasted at the domain in September 2019. (3/2020)
2017 FX Pichler Riesling Ried Burgstall Federspiel Austria
Price: $45.00 Your Price: $39.60 Quantity in Stock: 16
(93 Points) The 2017 Ried Burgstall Riesling Federspiel is from a windy plateau with sandy gneiss soils. Crunchy and mineral on the nose! The highly aromatic nose is super clear and fresh, and the palate is crisp and crunchy with highly stimulating fruit, mineral freshness and grip. Gorgeous! Stephan Reinhardt - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
2017 F.X. Pichler Durnsteiner Riesling Smaragd, Wachau, Austria
Price: $45.00 Your Price: $39.60 Quantity in Stock: 8
(92 Points) The 2017 Dürnsteiner Riesling Smaragd (formerly Oberhauser) is from the first picking in the terraces as well as from the Trum and Oberhauser (today Klostersatz). Fermented in stainless steel and bottled in April, the wine shows a fine and discreet, herbal/floral-scented apricot nose that leads to a racy-piquant, light and crispy palate with enormous purity and freshness. Grown on gravelly soils in the plains, this is a stunning, vital and crunchy Smaragd with a long, intense and purely mineral finish that is full of tension. Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
2017 FX Pichler Gruner Veltliner Ried Kellerberg Smaragd WACHAU, AUSTRIA
Price: $97.50 Your Price: $85.80 Quantity in Stock: 4
(94 Points) The 2017 Ried Kellerberg Grüner Veltliner offers a concentrated and aromatic, coolish, flinty and herbal bouquet. Round and lush on the palate, this is a generous and initially creamy-textured Veltliner, yet with more aeration, it becomes vital, refined and tensioned, with mineral grip and shining fruit. Crystalline and tight, the 2017 Kellerberg is still closed, but it's full of energy, tension and aging potential. The wine currently has more flesh and fine tannins and doesn't breathe as much as the 2018, but this is only the very first impression. However, there is grip, salt and tension, and in the end, it won't be far behind the 2018, if you like to have a ranking. I discovered that the wine starts to breathe and shine with one hour of aeration. Tasted at the domain in September 2019. Issue Date, 31st Mar 2020. Source- End of March 2020, The Wine Advocate
A bit about F.X. Pichler
The F.X. Pichler family wine estate is now in its seventh generation. Lucas Franz Pichler (*1973) and his wife Johanna Elisabeth (*1982) currently manage the winery, with Lucas Franz in the role of managing director, wine grower and oenologist, and Johanna Elisabeth being in charge of sales, marketing and export.
Franz Xaver (*1941) and Rudolfine (*1951) Pichler are still actively involved in the family business and can be found working in the vineyards, which they cultivate with dedication and experience.
The family can look back on a long tradition of winemaking. During the middle of the 19th century, the winegrower Franz Pichler II moved his family from the wine-growing village of Rohrendorf near Krems to the Wachau Valley. His grandson Franz Pichler VI later acquired a property in Oberloiben, in commune of Dürnstein, in the year 1898. It was in this very wine cellar in Oberloiben No. 27, that global wine success was written right up until the 2008 vintage.
In the year 1906, Franz Xaver’s (F.X.) father was born into the winemaking family. As a vintner, he studied the quality of vineyards and diligently recorded his observations of the growth and quality of individual grapevines into his notebook. Thus, his selection massale (Massal Selection – the French term for the practice of replanting new vineyards with cuttings), enabled him to identify the most outstanding Grüner Veltliner vines from each vineyard and then propagated new vines from that budwood. He began in 1928 and continued until 1952.
Towards the end of the 1930s, he was also a founding member of the winegrowers’ cooperative (Winzergenossenschaft) in Loiben, which was established to ensure the economic survival of the numerous small winegrowers in the town.
His son Franz Xaver (F.X.) followed into his father’s footsteps as a quality-conscious winemaker from an early age. He graduated from the Krems viticulture college and attended internships and practicals in Germany and Alsace. As the head of the family winery, he began purchasing prime and prized vineyard sites early on, as he was always convinced of the huge potential of his homeland.
Now in the seventh generation, Lucas Franz carries on with the family tradition as a winemaker and attended the Krems viticulture school between 1988 and 1992. He is grateful to his father, Franz Xaver, for passing down his colossal knowledge and decades of experience and dedication to exceptional wine quality.
Lucas Franz completed an internship at the Müller-Cartoir winery in the Pfalz wine region in autumn/winter 1994. Hans-Günter Schwarz, wine director at the time, became his mentor. This shaped him and brought out his passion for wine. Two years later, Lucas completed a second internship there.
In 1997, Lucas Franz gathered further professional experience from Manfred Tement (Tement family winery) in the Südsteiermark.
Lucas Franz now looks back on over two decades of winemaking at the family winery since the 1999 vintage. At that time, the F.X. Picher estate comprised of around 14 hectares (35 acres) under vine, and now Lucas Franz is responsible for 20 hectares (49 acres) of exceptionally great single-vineyard sites. These are situated within the immediate vicinity of the winery in Loiben and Dürnstein, with a 50/50 share between Grüner Veltliner and Riesling respectively. Small parcels of Gelber Muskateller (yellow muscat) are found on the Loibner Ried Loibenberg and there are also limited bottles of Sauvignon Blanc. Around 35 percent of the vines grow on steeply inclined, bedrock terraces with dry-stone walls, that can only be worked by hand labour. The latter is a Wachau cultural heritage, and its practice goes back many centuries.
Johanna Elisabeth Pichler was born into a family-winery in Rheinhessen, Germany and she learnt the winemaking profession from an early age. Johanna attended the viticulture school in Oppenheim in Rheinhessen between 1999–2002 and then completed her training as a viticulture economist at the Technical College in Bad Kreuznach an der Nahe. She met and fell in love with Lucas Franz Pichler in 2003. Shortly afterwards, Johanna uprooted herself from Rheinhessen to live in the Wachau, where she has been taking care of sales, marketing and export ever since. Johanna Elisabeth & Lucas Franz not only share their profession, they also share a great passion for wine.
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