Smaragd

This Austrian term is used only in the Wachau region of Lower Austria for the ripest grapes and, hence, for the fullest-bodied wines. Smaragd (pronounced smar-AHGD) wines must have a minimum of 12.5 percent alcohol, but most have considerably more. The word smaragd is also the name of a bright green lizard that suns itself in the Wachau vineyards.29

The Wine Clip: What Would Jimi Hendrix Drink?

“To drink Champagne in a flute glass is like going to a concert with earplugs in. You lose everything that is fragile and nuanced.”

—Margareth Henriquez
CEO, Krug Champagne, on the necessity of using a wide white wine glass for Champagne. At Krug, the preferred glass is “The Joseph,” created for the House by Riedel

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