Prager's Klaus is Wachau Riesling at its most assertive. High acidity and mineral spine built to cut through rich foods or brighten delicate ones with equal grace. The 2022 shows the Wachau's signature structure plainly: this is a wine that knows its job at the table.
Winemaker Notes
Klaus is Prager’s most assertive and robust Riesling. Riesling’s high acidity makes it one of the most versatile wines at the table. Riesling can be used to cut the fattiness of foods such as pork or sausages and can tame some saltiness. Conversely, it can highlight foods such as fish or vegetables in the same way a squeeze of lemon or a vinaigrette might.
Professional Ratings
94
Wine Advocate“The 2022 Ried Klaus Riesling Smaragd opens with a dense, spicy Riesling nose that is slightly overripe yet precise, with notes of raisins and grapefruit. Dense and powerful on the palate, it's very intense, spicy and tangy, with good concentration and juiciness. This is a complex, well-supplied Riesling with very good length.”
About the Producer
The Prager estate has risen in stature over the past 25 years to become a giant of Austria’s Wachau. And that rise has been in perfect parallel to the developing genius of winemaker Toni Bodenstein. Since becoming director of Prager in the early 1990s, Bodenstein’s relentless search for pure terroir expression has placed this long-revered estate among the world’s greatest sources of dry Riesling, and arguably the greatest for Grüner. At the time Toni took charge, Prager had been recognized for centuries as one of the Wachau’s elite domaines.
