Prior bottle was only three months ago, so my notes were unsurprisingly consistent. White peach, white pineapple and floral notes on the nose. Medium bodied with white peach and touch a white apple upfront, moving quickly to yellow peach and pineapple through the middle. There's a variety of other tropical notes starting to come in now including mango and guava (as it warms). Starts to moves towards golden tropical qualities but the acidity along with the tart orange and other citrus notes on the backside provide the needed balance. There are still enough tart qualities, acidity and general contrasting notes to allow this wine to show a good deal of complexity. From chilled through room temperature, the evolving flavor profile is very enjoyable. Should be able to hold a high level for a number of additional years, but this particular high-point phase is best enjoyed over the next three years or so.
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Prior bottle was only two weeks ago, so my notes were virtually identical. Floral notes along with white peach and apple on the nose. Medium bodied with white peach and apple upfront, moving to yellow peach and some gold peach through the middle, along with a variety of tropical notes. Good combination of tart whitefruit notes, citrus and acidity on the backside provide contrast and backbone. Still has a nice liveliness to the acidity and tart qualities and overall, shows good balance. The fruit notes were perhaps not quite as well defined as my prior bottle, but this one was served a bit warmer. Should be able to continue to hold this level and I'll save my next bottle for late Q2 2022, possibly June.
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White peach, apple and tart pineapple on the nose. There's a very interesting mix of tart, acidity driven notes as well as richer, more open fruit notes on the nose. Medium bodied (7.5% ABV) with a mixture of white peach, tart peach and yellow peach upfront, along with some background apple qualities. Mid-body has richness, with more depth of fruit (especially golden peach and pineapple). Has tart tropical qualities as well as orange citrus notes on the backside. Acidity provides good backside balance, but as other reviewers have noted, this vintage is more fruit driven and while the acidity is a positive presence, it's not as wonderfully intense as it can be (and has been in other vintages). This wine is currently in a very good spot with enough structural qualities to keep the fruit lithe and expressive, rather than heavy and honeyed. Feels like it can hold up for some time, but no reason to delay and I may open another bottle very soon, given the proper occasion and at the very latest by June 2022.
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Quite forward, succulent apricot and yellow stone fruit. It’s ripe but not overwhelming. Finish is a touch short and cloying as you might expect in this vintage. Worked with Szechuan though.
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Popped and poured. Aroma of peach and honey. Rich mix of flavors includes pear, stone fruit, lichee, minerals. Peach and minerals dominate the finish. Rich, supple, bursting with flavor, complex, firm backbone, great staying power. In its prime, with plenty left.
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Light green / gold color. Amazing purity - wonderful fruit and chalk on the nose. Terrific texture and a glorious zippy finish. This is outrageously good Riesling. (96)
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Doesn't seem to have changed much in the three years since I last had it; it's still very rich with an array of citrus, apple and some riper tropical flavours, bright floral and honeyed accents, and a vivid slate-stone mineral character beneath, with plenty of acidity to balance the sugar. Fantastic wine.
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Eatery: Bright, golden apple, jolly rancher; very zingy, electric intensity in finish; quite sweet and good acidity. Crunchy rocky minerality, tons of energy in this. A bit sugary sweet at this point.
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Interesting trying the from a 750ml on a Friday and 1.5l on a Saturday. From 750ml it's in a good place with quite ripe white fruit balanced by a limey acidity. Quite sweet (not sure I agree it's an Auslese level of sweetness, but it sure isn't Kabinett) for Spatlese but I didn't find this cloying things there's enough acidity to keep things balanced. From mag: much less notably sweet, with a more mineral note prominent.
This is by no means as complex or structured as Donnhoff's Spat's but for me this is just s satisfying (kind of in the Muller-Catoir Burgergarten Spat mould). Fabulous wine. Great stuff form Andreas.
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While basically pretty, very disappointing after several bottles of the Kabinett from the same vintage/vineyard. I have really liked Adam's wines, but this just didn't have the requisite acidity or minerality to balance the sweetness. Like Salil's comment, this seemed much more like an Auslese. Having had the wonderful '09 Graacher Domprost Spatlese from Willi Schaefer a few days before, this was nowhere in the same league.
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Light and vibrant. Honey, pears, citrus, and honeysuckle. Wonderful Riesling grape coming through. Dolce but not overly so. Alcohol 7.5% Paired well with cheeses.
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Wow.. Personally I love these kind of sweet wines. Flowers, fruit, sweetness and acidity. Due to the low alcohol you are able to drink a lot of this stuff :-) And it's cheap when you live in the country next to Germany and it's a 400 km drive to pick it up yourself. Boy, this is good...
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Very nice. The nose is typical Mosel. Sweet dried apricots with medium acidity. Actually, the acidity kicked in when I had this with pesto Ono and it was a great pairing. It tasted better with food than without. The finish was just a touch flat.
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2011 Simple Dinner Series 14 :: Ed's big day (Jade Palace Seafood Restaurant, The Forum Shopping Mall, Orchard Road): Alcohol :: 7.5% #04. Light golden. Double decanted for 8hrs. This is another delicious Riesling, well made and refine! The soft but intense elegant nose is perfume, loaded with soft chalky mineral, yellow flowers, crush stone, lemon and grapefruits. The palate is very elegant too woth good sense of harmony. The soft mineral backbone sketch out the features of this Riesling along with lemon, melon sweetness that leads to good dry, intense clean finish, lingering. When down with bigger sip, this is very juicy and full filling, good depth yet light on its feet. Great wine.
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Excellent again. Powerful, ripe and layered with ripe orchard fruits, floral elements, gingery spice and a stony mineral undercurrent combining seamlessly into a polished, medium weight whole. It's certainly ripe and sweet, but well balanced with plenty of acidity and I'm excited to see how this will age.
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I shared this with my wife on her b-day at Uchi. She loves Mosel rieslings. Aromas of apple and pineapple, as well as floral notes. Flavors of pineapple, pear, and peach, backed with solid minerality. Very well paired with our sushi.
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Light golden straw color. Very accessible immediately after opening. Nose of ripe apple, apricot, pineapple, green mango, red grapefruit, and slate minerals. Tons of sweet mango, red apple, and lemon, on the palate with excellent minerality and a spritzy acidity giving this wine a weightless quality. Really elegant, very ripe and sweet without being heavy in the slightest. Adam is making some of my favorite Mosel Rieslings.
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Aromas of lime, walnut and green apple wafted up from the glass. On the palate, this was weighty yet still fresh with flavors of honeydew melon and grapefruit playing a sweet and sour act across the tongue. There was a perceptible amount of sweetness, but this didn’t come across as sweet; instead it was full, balanced and bursting with flavor. The finish was long with citrus fruit and a hint of toasty pecan. This bottle is gorgeous now, yet I can’t help but wonder how great it will be in 10 to 15 years.
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Doesn't show the same massive ripeness and Auslese-like sweetness as a bottle I'd opened a couple of months ago. It's still a powerhouse with all sorts of exotic florality and spice over ripe cherry, peach and lychee flavours, very youthful and sweet but really well balanced with bright acids and impressive length.
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Auslese alert. This is *really* ripe. Starts out with the wild aromatics I always expect from Adam's Hofberg; exotic floral notes, ginger and red and white fruited flavours, but on the palate it's very rich with bright fruit veering towards the tropical, and some brown spices/apricot notes on the back end hinting at botrytis. That said the balance is fantastic and it's a wine I'd certainly like to have more of - though for sheer drinkability and lightness, I may still look for more of the '08.
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5/27/2023 - Morten & Morten Likes this wine: 93 Points
Perfectly matured, still fresh acidity. All you need In a Spatlese. Now or hold
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2/5/2022 - RGCM Gananda Likes this wine: 93 Points
Prior bottle was only three months ago, so my notes were unsurprisingly consistent. White peach, white pineapple and floral notes on the nose. Medium bodied with white peach and touch a white apple upfront, moving quickly to yellow peach and pineapple through the middle. There's a variety of other tropical notes starting to come in now including mango and guava (as it warms). Starts to moves towards golden tropical qualities but the acidity along with the tart orange and other citrus notes on the backside provide the needed balance. There are still enough tart qualities, acidity and general contrasting notes to allow this wine to show a good deal of complexity. From chilled through room temperature, the evolving flavor profile is very enjoyable. Should be able to hold a high level for a number of additional years, but this particular high-point phase is best enjoyed over the next three years or so.
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10/31/2021 - RGCM Gananda Likes this wine: 93 Points
Prior bottle was only two weeks ago, so my notes were virtually identical. Floral notes along with white peach and apple on the nose. Medium bodied with white peach and apple upfront, moving to yellow peach and some gold peach through the middle, along with a variety of tropical notes. Good combination of tart whitefruit notes, citrus and acidity on the backside provide contrast and backbone. Still has a nice liveliness to the acidity and tart qualities and overall, shows good balance. The fruit notes were perhaps not quite as well defined as my prior bottle, but this one was served a bit warmer. Should be able to continue to hold this level and I'll save my next bottle for late Q2 2022, possibly June.
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10/13/2021 - RGCM Gananda Likes this wine: 93 Points
White peach, apple and tart pineapple on the nose. There's a very interesting mix of tart, acidity driven notes as well as richer, more open fruit notes on the nose. Medium bodied (7.5% ABV) with a mixture of white peach, tart peach and yellow peach upfront, along with some background apple qualities. Mid-body has richness, with more depth of fruit (especially golden peach and pineapple). Has tart tropical qualities as well as orange citrus notes on the backside. Acidity provides good backside balance, but as other reviewers have noted, this vintage is more fruit driven and while the acidity is a positive presence, it's not as wonderfully intense as it can be (and has been in other vintages). This wine is currently in a very good spot with enough structural qualities to keep the fruit lithe and expressive, rather than heavy and honeyed. Feels like it can hold up for some time, but no reason to delay and I may open another bottle very soon, given the proper occasion and at the very latest by June 2022.
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12/21/2020 - LW31 wrote:
Quite forward, succulent apricot and yellow stone fruit. It’s ripe but not overwhelming. Finish is a touch short and cloying as you might expect in this vintage. Worked with Szechuan though.
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8/31/2020 - wineshlub wrote: 94 Points
Popped and poured. Aroma of peach and honey. Rich mix of flavors includes pear, stone fruit, lichee, minerals. Peach and minerals dominate the finish. Rich, supple, bursting with flavor, complex, firm backbone, great staying power. In its prime, with plenty left.
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7/22/2020 - ELH wrote: 93 Points
Paired well with spicy Korean chicken
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4/28/2020 - ubercuvee wrote:
Missing a bit of the cut and structure of less-solar vintages
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2/24/2020 - JHSP wrote: flawed
Bottle was cooked - just sweet and acidity - no complexity
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2/23/2020 - peternelson wrote: 91 Points
Good, fairly round, sweeter, with some good mineral undertones. EWG at Kapoor's Akbar
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5/28/2018 - ELH wrote: 93 Points
Paired well with sweet sour Vietnamese baby back ribs.
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8/6/2017 - jkoenen wrote: 93 Points
Wow... What a glorious Spätlese!
Fresh, bright, zippy acidity, gorgeous almost glacial purity and lovely concentration of fresh fruit. Grrrrrrreat!
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8/13/2015 - dbkitc wrote: 96 Points
Light green / gold color. Amazing purity - wonderful fruit and chalk on the nose. Terrific texture and a glorious zippy finish. This is outrageously good Riesling. (96)
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1/15/2015 - salil wrote: 92 Points
Doesn't seem to have changed much in the three years since I last had it; it's still very rich with an array of citrus, apple and some riper tropical flavours, bright floral and honeyed accents, and a vivid slate-stone mineral character beneath, with plenty of acidity to balance the sugar. Fantastic wine.
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9/13/2014 - ELH wrote: 91 Points
Paired well with prosciutto and cheese. Light and fragrant.
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10/22/2013 - peternelson wrote: 91 Points
Eatery: Bright, golden apple, jolly rancher; very zingy, electric intensity in finish; quite sweet and good acidity. Crunchy rocky minerality, tons of energy in this. A bit sugary sweet at this point.
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10/13/2013 - ubercuvee wrote: 93 Points
Interesting trying the from a 750ml on a Friday and 1.5l on a Saturday. From 750ml it's in a good place with quite ripe white fruit balanced by a limey acidity. Quite sweet (not sure I agree it's an Auslese level of sweetness, but it sure isn't Kabinett) for Spatlese but I didn't find this cloying things there's enough acidity to keep things balanced.
From mag: much less notably sweet, with a more mineral note prominent.
This is by no means as complex or structured as Donnhoff's Spat's but for me this is just s satisfying (kind of in the Muller-Catoir Burgergarten Spat mould). Fabulous wine. Great stuff form Andreas.
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5/16/2013 - ubercuvee wrote:
Tasty infanticide
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10/29/2012 - ELH wrote: 91 Points
Paired well with pork chops smothered in onions.
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10/7/2012 - essconsults wrote: 89 Points
While basically pretty, very disappointing after several bottles of the Kabinett from the same vintage/vineyard. I have really liked Adam's wines, but this just didn't have the requisite acidity or minerality to balance the sweetness. Like Salil's comment, this seemed much more like an Auslese. Having had the wonderful '09 Graacher Domprost Spatlese from Willi Schaefer a few days before, this was nowhere in the same league.
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9/28/2012 - ELH wrote: 91 Points
Light and vibrant. Honey, pears, citrus, and honeysuckle. Wonderful Riesling grape coming through. Dolce but not overly so. Alcohol 7.5% Paired well with cheeses.
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7/31/2012 - salil wrote: 92 Points
Still awesome. Pure, powerful, long and superbly balanced.
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7/9/2012 - Kriz wrote: 92 Points
Mix some honey with te right amount of citrus fruit, put a little coriander in it and you have this wine. Nice example of a very good Spätlese.
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2/6/2012 - Kriz wrote: 92 Points
Wow.. Personally I love these kind of sweet wines. Flowers, fruit, sweetness and acidity. Due to the low alcohol you are able to drink a lot of this stuff :-) And it's cheap when you live in the country next to Germany and it's a 400 km drive to pick it up yourself. Boy, this is good...
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12/31/2011 - bambam wrote: 92 Points
Very nice. The nose is typical Mosel. Sweet dried apricots with medium acidity. Actually, the acidity kicked in when I had this with pesto Ono and it was a great pairing. It tasted better with food than without. The finish was just a touch flat.
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12/23/2011 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 92 Points
2011 Simple Dinner Series 14 :: Ed's big day (Jade Palace Seafood Restaurant, The Forum Shopping Mall, Orchard Road): Alcohol :: 7.5%
#04. Light golden. Double decanted for 8hrs. This is another delicious Riesling, well made and refine! The soft but intense elegant nose is perfume, loaded with soft chalky mineral, yellow flowers, crush stone, lemon and grapefruits. The palate is very elegant too woth good sense of harmony. The soft mineral backbone sketch out the features of this Riesling along with lemon, melon sweetness that leads to good dry, intense clean finish, lingering. When down with bigger sip, this is very juicy and full filling, good depth yet light on its feet. Great wine.
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12/21/2011 - salil wrote: 92 Points
Excellent again. Powerful, ripe and layered with ripe orchard fruits, floral elements, gingery spice and a stony mineral undercurrent combining seamlessly into a polished, medium weight whole. It's certainly ripe and sweet, but well balanced with plenty of acidity and I'm excited to see how this will age.
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10/7/2011 - ews3 wrote: 93 Points
really nice -- sweet, but with med(+) acid. tropical and stone fruit. med(+) finish.
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9/3/2011 - danielbleier wrote: 93 Points
I shared this with my wife on her b-day at Uchi. She loves Mosel rieslings. Aromas of apple and pineapple, as well as floral notes. Flavors of pineapple, pear, and peach, backed with solid minerality. Very well paired with our sushi.
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5/17/2011 - cartime wrote: 94 Points
Light golden straw color. Very accessible immediately after opening. Nose of ripe apple, apricot, pineapple, green mango, red grapefruit, and slate minerals. Tons of sweet mango, red apple, and lemon, on the palate with excellent minerality and a spritzy acidity giving this wine a weightless quality. Really elegant, very ripe and sweet without being heavy in the slightest. Adam is making some of my favorite Mosel Rieslings.
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2/3/2011 - amateurwino wrote:
Beautiful, appealing, smooth spatlese.
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1/27/2011 - Eric Guido Likes this wine: 92 Points
Aromas of lime, walnut and green apple wafted up from the glass. On the palate, this was weighty yet still fresh with flavors of honeydew melon and grapefruit playing a sweet and sour act across the tongue. There was a perceptible amount of sweetness, but this didn’t come across as sweet; instead it was full, balanced and bursting with flavor. The finish was long with citrus fruit and a hint of toasty pecan. This bottle is gorgeous now, yet I can’t help but wonder how great it will be in 10 to 15 years.
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12/14/2010 - salil wrote: 92 Points
Doesn't show the same massive ripeness and Auslese-like sweetness as a bottle I'd opened a couple of months ago. It's still a powerhouse with all sorts of exotic florality and spice over ripe cherry, peach and lychee flavours, very youthful and sweet but really well balanced with bright acids and impressive length.
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10/20/2010 - salil wrote: 91 Points
Auslese alert. This is *really* ripe. Starts out with the wild aromatics I always expect from Adam's Hofberg; exotic floral notes, ginger and red and white fruited flavours, but on the palate it's very rich with bright fruit veering towards the tropical, and some brown spices/apricot notes on the back end hinting at botrytis. That said the balance is fantastic and it's a wine I'd certainly like to have more of - though for sheer drinkability and lightness, I may still look for more of the '08.
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