AJ Adam Riesling Dhroner Hofberg Trocken GG 2018 750ml 92 Vinous

Rand Sieger of 67Wine.com | An eminently racy and ageworthy dry Riesling that defies the warm 2018 vintage.  Stony on the palate with bright citrus aromas and flavors.  

Vinous 92 Points | Featuring fruit from the same steep site and 50-some-year-old vines that have informed previous installments of this wine, the 2018 reflects in its 12% alcohol both site-specific differences in must weight and the fact that these grapes were not picked until the first week in October. Strawberry, pear and lime are accompanied on the nose by pleasantly earthy suggestions of raw pumpkin as well as by faintly dusty and smoky stoniness. The feel is firm, but acidity is marginally less prominent than in the ostensibly lesser legally dry bottlings that precede it in Adam’s lineup. It shares with those wines, though, an amazing sense of stony, alkaline and smoky mineral matter clinging to the palate, and in this instance even to one’s teeth! Fortunately, there is more than enough primary juiciness for the gripping finish to also refresh. (Drink between 2020-2028)