2014 A.J. Adam Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Spätlese
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From a warmer vineyard that was planted in 1953 with ungrafted vines that deliver small, healthy berries and low yields, the 2014 Hofberg Spätlese displays an intense and ripe apple bouquet mixed with flinty and spicy/mineral aromas. Picked with 92° Oechsle, this is an elegant, round and voluptuous Riesling with a smooth palate, but also a piquant and mineral acidity that takes this lush and sensual Spätlese to a long, charming finish with a lingering and mouthwatering salinity.
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Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
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This glossy, delicate and overtly sweet Riesling of a mere 8 percent alcohol conveys a limeade and apple juice impression and finishes with invigorating if slightly inharmonious sweet-sour tension. It might well improve with a bit of bottle age and serve as a better model for this site’s manifest vintage 2014 potential.