“This comes from a vineyard at the top of Achleiten, where proprietor Toni Bodenstein planted 110 different clones of grüner veltliner in 1997. In 2017, those vines created a gorgeous wine, crisp and floral in its herbal citrus fruit, and sultry in its crushed-stone minerality. It expands with air, turning toward notes of pear, peach and plum even as the acidity holds the wine tightly, an elegant veltliner that wears its power lightly.”
— Wine & Spirits, Apr 2019

“From the upper part of the Achleiten and very close to the Stockkultur, Prager's intensely white-golden colored 2017 Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Wachstum Bodenstein is based on a blend of many different Veltliner clones and massal selections averaging roughly 30 years. The bouquet is very deep, intense and flinty on the complex and exciting nose, with crunchy stone and lemon aromas. Rich and intense on the palate, this is an enormously powerful, very dense and juicy, slightly creamy-textured but very elegant and almost sweet (high glycerin) Achleiten. It is a long-distance runner with salinity and good tannin grip and mineral tension that will show its true character only in years.”
— Wine Advocate, Dec 2018