| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| White |
2002 A.J. Adam Dhronhofberger Tholey RieslingMosel Saar Ruwer more |
3/26/2013 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 95 pointsHmm, I guess I was too rash when I wrote this one off. Whatever happened to my last bottle (weak cork?), this is back to the wine I remember, as vigorous as it ever was, blindingly bright fruit, and a tactile, craggy texture. It is putting on a little more weight and depth so maybe not quite as linear as it used to be, but the detail and drive are still amazing. |
| White |
2002 A.J. Adam Dhronhofberger Tholey RieslingMosel Saar Ruwer more |
6/7/2011 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 87 pointsDamn. This was so much better five years ago. The fruit component is more or less the same but the mineral and textural intrigue is totally gone. |
| White |
2002 A.J. Adam Dhronhofberger Tholey RieslingMosel Saar Ruwer more |
7/18/2006 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 96 pointsThis is every bit the gothic study in stone as my last bottle but I left this one open for a few days and kept coming back to it. Given the extra time to unravel, the fruit has turned darker, become thicker in consistency, and acquired a signature in the back palate reminiscent of fiery wax, hinting at that "petrol" thing to come. None of this development comes at the expense of its inherent crispness and rough, rocky texture. I need more of this. |
| White |
2002 A.J. Adam Dhronhofberger Tholey RieslingMosel Saar Ruwer more |
7/8/2006 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 95 pointsThis is the Platonic ideal of Mosel Riesling - through a lens of fresh apples, a gothic structure of slate and stones like a castle on a dark and stormy night. The depth and carved detail is stunning for a QbA - stunning at any predicate level, really. This structure and minerality remind me of the 2001 Donnhoff Niederhauser Hermannshohle I had last year. |
| White |
2007 A.J. Adam Hofberg RieslingMosel Saar Ruwer more |
11/12/2008 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 97 pointsMuch more aggressively dry than the 2005 Hofberg "Reserve," and consequently leaner, even slightly bitter in comparison -- but every bit as gulpable. Every sip electric, crackling with energy. |
| White |
2005 A.J. Adam Hofberg RieslingMosel Saar Ruwer more |
10/22/2021 - Keith Levenberg wrote: NRMore evolved than expected, color starting to bronze, kerosene still on the nose, and the palate softly textured and showing more sweetness than it has in the past, with baked apple flavors. Better a few years ago and hopefully it will be better again next time. Not sure if this bottle was prematurely advanced or if that's just where it is. |
| White |
2005 A.J. Adam Hofberg RieslingMosel Saar Ruwer more |
9/24/2019 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 93 pointsIn that state with "petrol" dominated aromatics. Close to dry-tasting but maybe it's that smidge of sugar that gives it that thicker, oily texture without feeling soft in any way. |
| White |
2005 A.J. Adam Hofberg RieslingMosel Saar Ruwer more |
4/1/2013 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 94 pointsMy second Adam in a row to redeem itself after a disappointing performance, and this is now back pretty much exactly to the way I remember it from a few years back, bright, bracing, and angular, with a rough, chain-mail texture, and functionally dry despite its smidge of sugar - barely if at all perceptible in this bottle. Not sure what went wrong with the last one, but this is clearly what it's supposed to be. |
| White |
2005 A.J. Adam Hofberg RieslingMosel Saar Ruwer more |
11/2/2012 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 90 pointsI'm actually a little bit surprised how fast this went from seeming closed and tight to showing actual, real signs of maturity. This has turned a deep golden yellow with some of the waxy characteristics of mature riesling; its youthful cut and bracing presence feel much moderated. In fact, the small amount of sugar in this that was once barely noticeable is actually much more obvious now and seems to give the body of the wine a little creaminess and polish. |
| White |
2005 A.J. Adam Hofberg RieslingMosel Saar Ruwer more |
2/6/2008 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 97 pointsCharacteristics of tropical fruit, beeswax, flowers, and kerosene, but this wine doesn't just taste like something, it DOES something. Immediately on entry you can practically feel the gears cranking as it imparts such a sense of traction it feels like it's gritting your teeth for you. But this isn't one of those dry rieslings that's masochistic in its austerity; there's a great balance of material and structure, of form and function. |
| White |
2005 A.J. Adam Hofberg RieslingMosel Saar Ruwer more |
2/9/2009 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 94 pointsPaler and less exotic in its fruit profile than it was last year, but with at least as much clarity. It now tastes pretty much bone-dry despite the 12g/l sugar, with all the cut and angularity that comes with that territory, and the slate minerality even more powerful than the fruit. The result of the fruit's receding is some stiffening of the alcohol on the back end, which is the only thing detracting from the unalloyed expression of all the classic Mosel elements on a drier-than-usual frame. |
| White |
2009 A.J. Adam Hofberg RieslingMosel Saar Ruwer more |
7/19/2021 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 95 pointsThrilling, as it's always been. Just a smidge of sweetness, near-enough dry and thus racy notwithstanding fruit that's plump and fleshy with a creamy richness. Complex flavor spectrum combines pale fruits and sweeter ones with poached pear, banana, some underripe mango, and key lime, with a little whiff of kerosene. |
| White - Off-dry |
2011 A.J. Adam Hofberg Riesling feinherbMosel Saar Ruwer more |
2/11/2013 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 92 pointsThis feels much closer to the trocken side than the spatlese side of feinherb relative to past vintages of this bottling, and it feels so sharp and serrated for the first glass that it's practically like drinking razor blades. The fruit emerges as the bottle sips and while it remains bracingly fresh and tart in personality, like biting into a lime, eventually it picks up some flesh and turns out to be much less austere and punishing than I'm making it sound. This is great stuff, but it could stand to be left alone even for a short-term period to unwind a little bit. So far every '11 I've had has come across seeming more juicy and less finished than any vintage I can remember. |
| White - Off-dry |
2003 A.J. Adam Hofberg Riesling in der SängereiMosel Saar Ruwer more |
1/18/2007 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 89 pointsClassic expression of Mosel Riesling. Initially comes off very dry with its acidity and slate mineral flavors numbing the fruit. But on the next day when the structure is tamer it's clear that there's just a smidge of sugar in there that rounds at the fruit without giving it any sensation of actual sweetness, a very deft touch. The fruit is ripe and alive with fresh pear and melon flavors and fibrous in texture. |
| White - Off-dry |
2015 A.J. Adam Hofberg Riesling in der SängereiMosel Saar Ruwer more |
5/21/2017 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 91 pointsClose to the dictionary definition of Mosel riesling here. The fruit spectrum highlights apples and peaches, on a base of slate. It's sweeter than some of A.J. Dam's prior not-totally-dry wines have been - almost plush in texture, though still plenty refreshing. |
| White |
2007 A.J. Adam Hofberg Riesling KabinettMosel Saar Ruwer more |
2/5/2009 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 90 pointsThis is either sweeter than the spatlese or simply less tightly coiled, but it tastes sweeter. It's still reasonably crisp with Mosel apple flavors and intensely fragrant, just packed with aromas of apples and flowers. |
| White |
2009 A.J. Adam Hofberg Riesling KabinettMosel Saar Ruwer more |
8/24/2010 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 93 pointsDelicious. A riesling buzzsaw. You know what I mean. Fruit is probably more in spatlese territory than kabinett but if the kabinett aspirations are to thank for the energy and raciness of this, I'm not complaining. |
| White |
2012 A.J. Adam Hofberg Riesling KabinettMosel Saar Ruwer more |
7/16/2015 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 92 pointsTasted with the spatlese. Both delicious. This is, as you would expect, the crisper of the two although if it had been labeled a spatlese I don't think anyone would have batted an eye, as it has plenty of sweetness and flesh. (This is labeled at 8.5%, the spatlese at 8%.) Sulfur on the nose. The fruits are paler here than the spatlese but this isn't a lean, spinal style of kabinett - it's pretty generous. |
| White - Off-dry |
2005 A.J. Adam Hofberg Riesling SpätleseMosel Saar Ruwer more |
2/27/2024 - Keith Levenberg wrote: NRThis has aged a bit since my last bottle a few years ago and is now dark golden and luscious, perhaps some might find it a little too luscious especially if you are accustomed to AJ's feinherbs or the mostly dry reserve of the same vintage. Lots of tropical character in this one, peach, apricots, passionfruit. It's not the raciest but it's not soft and flabby either, just purposeful and unapologetic about its sweet spatlese yums. |
| White - Off-dry |
2005 A.J. Adam Hofberg Riesling SpätleseMosel Saar Ruwer more |
11/6/2021 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 94 pointsBetter than expected and vastly better than a recent bottle of the Reserve. This has fattened up some with age but it's held onto its refreshment value and luminosity and maybe even cranked those up too. It's luscious, but not like my last bottle which was in apple pie territory, this one is all bright pineapple, tropical but also precise even as it warms in the glass. |
| White - Off-dry |
2005 A.J. Adam Hofberg Riesling SpätleseMosel Saar Ruwer more |
3/24/2017 - Keith Levenberg wrote: NRFat and golden with luscious fruit that tastes like the filling of an apple pie. Delicious stuff but borders on dessert-wine territory. |
| White - Off-dry |
2005 A.J. Adam Hofberg Riesling SpätleseMosel Saar Ruwer more |
11/20/2012 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 92 pointsIt's absolutely fascinating to see how this has changed (and not changed) over the last six years, and how it compares to the drier Reserve Hofberg, which was by far the more impressive of the two on release, but not today. The spatlese is showing much younger and fresher and the fruit profile is pretty much the same as it was six years ago, deliciously luscious tropical fruits with some milder melon flavors in the mix. If anything the fruit might be more primary and pure than it was then, as it's not exhibiting anything waxy or botrytized, although it does have a creamy richness that could easily make it pass for an auslese. |
| White - Off-dry |
2005 A.J. Adam Hofberg Riesling SpätleseMosel Saar Ruwer more |
11/16/2006 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 88 pointsThis very dark yellow "Spatlese" from the Dhron Hofberg has noticeable late-harvest characteristics like a botrytized beeswax scent complementing flavors of candied corn and rich tropical fruits. You can put an umbrella in this and serve it at a luau. The fruit is as intense as a reduction but it also has the body and brothy savor to avoid seeming simple and juicy, while a subtle acidic buzz just barely manages to cut through the fatness. A few days in the fridge mellows the fruit into a melon gelee. |
| White - Off-dry |
2007 A.J. Adam Hofberg Riesling SpätleseMosel Saar Ruwer more |
1/21/2009 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 94 pointsLess sweet than the standard for spätlese. I've always thought it was the drier styles that Adam does best, and this is a great example of how that specialty comes through even within a traditional spätlese framework. An excellent balance between the precision of a dry wine and the generousness that sugar gives, with no sugariness to the taste. |
| White - Off-dry |
2012 A.J. Adam Hofberg Riesling SpätleseMosel Saar Ruwer more |
7/16/2015 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 90 pointsSignificantly sweeter and fatter than the kabinett, with the fruit flavors showing more luscious tropical fruit character. No sulfury scent in the nose on this one either, which is more fruit than mineral. Serious tropical deliciousness but I could see this getting a bit cloying if you're drinking it all night. |
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