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Stephan Reinhardt - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Citrus colored, cool, clear and crisp on the nose, the 2013 Riesling Steiner Schreck serves all those who prefer a rather reductive and linear style of Riesling from crystalline soils. The wine offers delicately floral aromas on the nose intermixed with oriental spice flavors, tobacco, citrus and Austrian apricots (Marillen). Full-bodied, very deep, and concentrated on the palate this is surely the most powerful, complex and expressive Riesling (besides the 2013 Steinzeug Riesling) of the family estate's impressive series of 2013s. Still young (with CO2) but full of thrill, piquancy and potential this extremely salty and persistent wine is probably one of the most impressive Rieslings of all Austria in 2013, Wachau included.