TN: Pit stops in the Mosel and Alsace

Not bad, but not really typical of what Adam's making now. I liked the wine, but I found it unusually heavy with a lot of botrytis and very rich fruit (on par with a lot of modern Auslese).
 
The 2005 Hofberg Reserve is the Adam to get. I think the sweet spot in his lineup is the wines that are mostly but not completely dry. (The Reserve had 12g/l of sugar which was absolutely perfect.) The standard kabinetts and spatleses are fine but not nearly as distinctive, and as Salil points out the latter can be fairly honeyed.

Adam and Peter Lauer are where most of my Mosel dollars are going these days.
 
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