Wine from Austria

jamessuckling.com, 99 points: Welcome to the riesling deep end! Try to climb out if you can, but I don't want to! Although this is almost 20 years old there's a kaleidoscope of dried fruit aromas which also make this one of the world's most amazing...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 97 points: Bottled in June 2016, this texturally silken, supremely elegant effort transparently and kaleidoscopically combines moss, wet stone, gentian, buddleia, coriander, pepper, piquant yet rich nut oils and a saline clam broth...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 95 points: The nose here fascinates in a distinctively Nikolaihof manner. Elusive suggestions of moss and lichen on wet stone, mothball and salt spray, along with herbal and floral essences introduce a palate performance that adds...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 91 points: Weighing in at just 11.5 percent alcohol, this is brimming with ripe apple and white peach, while scents and flavors of almond, moss, and wet stone add subtle complexity. A smoky, resinous, reductive topnote puts me in...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2011 Riesling Smaragd Vom Stein opens with the ripe charm and winning self-confidence of a warm vintage. Super clear, with ultra-ripe (not overripe though!) and concentrated fruit aromas on the nose along with floral...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: Nikolaihof’s recently released 2009 Riesling Steiner Hund Reserve delivers a scintillating, virtually mesmerizing array of high-toned floral and herbal scents of distillate-like high-toned penetration. I’m not even going...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: This type of Prager's 2013 Riesling Smaragd Klaus is allied to the Achleiten, although cooler, spicier and purer, less fruit-driven. Rich, juicy and piquant on the palate, this full-bodied and well-concentrated wine...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: Concentrated aromas of stone fruit, honeydew, toasted almonds and crushed stones on the flinty nose of the matured 2006 Riesling Federspiel Vom Stein are followed by a pure, intense and elegant palate full of tension and...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 90 points: Already with the subtle, engagingly floral and mineral nose, one knows that this wine will be in a different league from the Knolls’ two Wachau Riesling Federspiel bottlings. Meadow-like, almond and ocean breeze scents...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 95 points: Salt, white pepper and Szechuan peppercorn mouthwateringly and invigoratingly inflect luscious, juicy white peach, pineapple and lime. A sleek and refined texture contributes to this bottling’s overall sense of elegance...

Wine Enthusiast, 90 points: Exotic tropical pineapple overtones give an immediate impression of ripeness. The palate confirms that generous fruit but also delivers a lovely phenolic texture and sufficient freshness to keep it lively and appetizing...

Wine Spectator, 90 points: A ripe style, with richly textured flavors of peach, pear and dried apricot, layered with vanilla notes. Creamy accents show on the finish. Drink now through 2018. 2,000 cases made. –KM

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2015 Riesling Smaragd Achleiten displays a pure and mineral bouquet of crushed stones and white-peach aromas. Intense and fruity on the palate, with good concentration and densely woven texture, this is a piquant and...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 90 points: Picking for this was very late for its genre, but in the high-elevation terraces that dominate this bottling, must weights remained very modest, resulting in what a time traveler visiting from the 1980s would recognize as...