Josef Fischer Gruner Veltliner 'Reid Mugler' Smaragd Wachau 2021 Size:750ml this shows even greater tension

this shows even greater tension on the palate

The wine is racked for the first time in August following the harvest and is bottled usually during the second winter after harvest

has been engaged in a decades-long passion project of breeding the fabled but near-extinct Huchen-the royal fish of the Habsburgs-and repopulating the river with them

4 hectares on friable clay-limestone soils strewn with galet-stones in Sarrians

Josef Fischer Gruner Veltliner 'Reid Mugler' Smaragd Wachau 2021 Size:750ml this shows even greater tensionThe Fischer family has produced wine on the Danube's southern banks for centuries, from holdings in and around their home village of Rossatz, in the eastern stretches of the Wachau. The winery itself traces its roots to 1898, and today fifth generation Josef Fischer (or "Joe," to distinguish him from his father also named Josef) works 11 hectares of Gruner Veltliner and Riesling from several of Rossatz's top sites. Only a small percentage of Wachau