91 Wine Spectator

"Delivers powerful grapefruit and green tea flavors, with an intense smoky essence to the ripe pear and pepper notes. The fat finish offers spice and cream. Drink now through 2013." -91 points Wine Spectator

WINE:
"Forest honey, apricot compote, peppery spice, voluminous, powerful, fibrous fine-grained mineralic, early balance, long lasting, model example for the location, big wine." -Winery

"Smaragd, the most valuable category of white wines made from the ripest grapes on the best sites of the Wachau in Austria. Alcohol levels must be more than 12.5%. Smaragd wines can age up to twenty years. The category is named after the green lizard that basks in the sun on the Wachau's hottest steep stone terraces above the river Danube." -Jancis Robinson, Oxford Companian to Wine

WINERY:
"Our estate was founded in the year 1380 for the Kartause 'Aggsbach', a little village near Melk. Hence, the name of our winery is 'Kartaeuserhof'...In 1862 the family Stierschneider aquired the 'Kartaeuserhof'. Within three generations the business increased to a productions size about 100,000 bottles a year. The vineyards are located in the south exposed terraces of Rieden Achleiten, Klaus, Weitenberg, Hinterkirchen, Steinriegl and Pichl-Point." -Winery