F.X. Pichler Austrian Wine Offering with the best price in the world on the 2020 vintage!

 



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 2020 vintage!  We also have a great selection of older vintages from this great producer on SALE!!


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F.X Pichler 2020 Vintage wines at the lowest price in the World!!


 


The Rarest Austrian Riesling? FX Pichler Unendlich – Crush Wine & Spirits


2020 F.X. PICHLER 'UNENDLICH' RIESLING SMARAGD, WACHAU, AUSTRIA

Price: $285.00   Special Sale! $142.50     (24 bottles Available)

(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


 


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2020 F.X. PICHLER LOIBNER STEINERTAL RIESLING SMARAGD, WACHAU, AUSTRIA

Price: $65.00     Special Sale! $37.75       (30 bottles Available)

(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


FX Pichler Riesling Loibner Steinertal Smaragd | Fine Vines


2020 F.X. PICHLER LOIBNER LOIBENBERG RIESLING SMARAGD, WACHAU, AUSTRIA

Price: $65.00     Special Sale! $39.75       (24 bottles Available)

(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


Pichler/FX Riesling Smaragd Ried Kellerberg 2019 - Woodland Hills Wine  Company


2020 F.X. PICHLER RIED KELLERBERG RIESLING SMARAGD, WACHAU, AUSTRIA

Price: $99.00     Special Sale! $62.50                     (8 bottles Available)

(95-96 points)    “Lucas Pichler’s 2020 Ried Kellerberg Riesling opens clear, coolish and spicy on the stony and flinty nose that reveals fresh notes of lemon juice, shredded lime zests, woodruff ad stone fruits. Juicy, elegant and salty on the palate, this is a balanced and complete Kellerberg whose force is lifted by crystalline acidity and structured by fine tannins. There are some very noble raisin notes on the finish. Very promising! 12.5% alcohol. 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


F.X. Pichler Loibner Steinertal Smaragd Riesling 2019 – B-21


2020 F.X. PICHLER LOIBNER RIED BURGSTALL RIESLING FEDERSPIEL, WACHAU, AUSTRIA

Price: $40.00     Special Sale! $27.00       (6 bottles Available)

White wine. Wachau, Austria. Sustainable. 100% Reisling. A fresh, clear, aromatic bouquet with aromas of peak-season peach and apricot. The palate is pleasantly reductive with a saline character, yet remains remarkably fresh and precise, with bright fruit and outstanding acidity.



2020 FX PICHLER RIED LOIBENBERG GRUNER VELTLINER SMARAGD WACHAU

Price: $65.00     Special Sale! $39.00                     (36 bottles Available)

(93-94 points) “The 2020 Ried Loibenberg Grüner Veltliner is clear and reductive on the nose and reveals pleasant phenolic notes along with clear and fresh fruit as well as stony, tobacco, floral and spicy notes. Juicy, elegant and finessed on the palate, this is a warm and powerful Loibenberg that luckily is structured by crystalline acidity. However, this is a 2020 for Austrians who tend to prefer the rich and round wines to the edgy and mineral ones. 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. (WK)”  (12/2021)  Wine Advocate


2020 F.X. PICHLER LOIBNER GRUNER VELTLINER SMARAGD, WACHAU, AUSTRIA

Price: $40.00                   Special Sale! $25.50                     (6 bottles Available)

White wine. Wachau, Austria. Sustainable. 100% Grüner Veltliner. A fresh, aromatic, and attractive bouquet with beautiful floral notes. Pure, elegant, and grippy on the palate, with flavors of Bartlett pear and honeydew melon, alongside tantalizing vegetal accents. Look for a peppery piquancy on the impressively long finish.


2020 F.X. PICHLER LOIBNER KLOSTERSATZ GRUNER VELTLINER FEDERSPIEL, WACHAU, AUSTRIA

Price: $39.00                   Special Sale! $25.00       (30 bottles Available)

White wine. Wachau, Austria. Sustainable. 100% Grüner Veltliner. Melon, citrus, and lychee flavors at the start, followed by an herbaceous finish with white pepper and a hint of lentils. Pair this with fish and light poultry dishes. Grüner Veltliner also works particularly well with veggies like brussels sprouts and artichokes.


 


The rest of the F.X. Pichler in the store:


2021 F.X. PICHLER DURNSTEINER GRUNER VELTLINER SMARAGD, WACHAU, AUSTRIA

Price: $45.00     Your Price: $38.25          (6 bottles Available)


2019 FX PICHLER RIED STEINERTAL RIESLING SMARAGD WACHAU, AUSTRIA

Price: $75.00     Your Price: $66.00          Quantity in Stock: 11


2019 FX PICHLER RIESLING RIED KELLERBERG SMARAGD WACHAU, AUSTRIA

Price: $105.00   Your Price: $92.40          Quantity in Stock: 4


2019 FX PICHLER GRUNER VELTLINER LOIBNER FEDERSPIEL WACHAU, AUSTRIA

Price: $37.50     Your Price: $33.00          Quantity in Stock: 2


2019 FX PICHLER GRUNER VELTLINER KLOSTERSATZ FEDERSPIEL

Price: $44.25     Your Price: $38.94          Quantity in Stock: 3


2018 FX PICHLER RIESLING DURNSTEINER SMARAGD, Wachau, Austria

Price: $48.00     Your Price: $42.24          Quantity in Stock: 10


2018 PICHLER GRUNER VELTLINER DURNSTEINER SMARAGD

Price: $42.00     Your Price: $36.96          Quantity in Stock: 4


2018 FX PICHLER RIESLING RIED LOIBENBERG SMARAGD

Price: $67.50     Your Price: $59.40          Quantity in Stock: 12


2018 FX PICHLER GRUNER VELTLINER RIED LOIBENBERG SMARAGD

Price: $66.00     Your Price: $58.08          Quantity in Stock: 9



2017 FX PICHLER RIESLING RIED BURGSTALL FEDERSPIEL AUSTRIA

Price: $45.00     Your Price: $39.60          Quantity in Stock: 17


2017 F.X. PICHLER DURNSTEINER RIESLING SMARAGD, WACHAU, AUSTRIA

Price: $45.00     Your Price: $39.60          Quantity in Stock: 10

(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


A bit about F.X. Pichler


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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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