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Andreas Adam is a small producer who is currently building his reputation with lovely, clear, bright, finesse-full and elegant Mosel Rieslings from top sites in Dhron and Piesport. He is doing this even in highly problematic vintages, such as 2012 (peronospera), 2013 and now also 2014. Rarely in the past 30 years had a vintage had such bad press like 2014. This vintage had been depreciated in the local press as early as October, especially in the Mosel. Although, the real heroes of the German wine scene were still harvesting, respectively fighting against what was about to destroy their dreams and challenge existences. Rain, humidity and summer-like warm temperatures, bursting grapes, acid flies, and rot in the vineyards between the districts of Zell (Lower Mosel or Terrassenmosel) and Bernkastel (Middle Mosel) reversed a promising vintage in the course of a couple of days into the opposite. The yellow grapes turned purple in a day or two, or even brown if the early and most unwelcome rot had not been removed from the vineyard. There was a smell of vinegar in the air when the big harvest machines cropped everything what was still on the vines, no matter what the quality was. In the next row, the biggest and fastest harvest troops ever seen were cleaning out, sorting and discarding grapes in order to bring just the healthy ones to the winery. The 2014 vintage was surely not made by the press, but in the vineyard. Today, with a distance of 14 or 15 months and the precociously praised 2015 vintage on the horizon, the resulting wines of 2014 show their character more clearly than last summer, and the vintage itself can also be observed more differentiated.
Stephan Reinhardt (The Wine Advocate) - March 2016
I was pretty pleased with the first big collection of 2015s tasted in Bordeaux recently, but the 2015s I tasted in Germany at the end of last month were even more impressive.
Jancis Robinson, The Financial Times - May 13, 2016
In Germany, 2015 is the perfect vintage for its moment. And it was a perfect harvest for all the growers who suffered through the daunting challenges of 2014 and 2013. I’d sum up the consensus thus: “In 2015 we could pick when we wanted to, not when we had to. We could plan and calculate and get things just right.”
Terry Theise – March 2016
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A.J. Adam, Riesling Trocken 2015, 9,99€ (RP 86 in 2014)
A.J. Adam, Dhroner Riesling Trocken 2015, 14,30€ (RP 88 in 2014 & RP 90 in 2013)
A.J. Adam, 'Häs'chen' Riesling Trocken 2015, 22,99€ (RP 92 in 2014)
A.J. Adam, Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Trocken 2015, 29,99€ (RP 91+ in 2014 & RP 93+ in 2013)
A.J. Adam, In der Sängerei Riesling Feinherb 2015, 20,99€ (RP 93 in 2014 & RP 91 in 2013)
A.J. Adam, Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Kabinett 2015, 14,30€ (RP 92 in 2014 & RP 91+ in 2013)
A.J. Adam, Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Spätlese 2015, 20,99€ (RP 92 in 2014 & RP 94+ in 2013)
A.J. Adam, Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Auslese 2015, 26,50€ (RP 96 in 2013)
Full eRobertParker.com Wine Advocate reviews (2014 & 2013 vintage) by Stephan Reinhardt can be found below.
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2014 A.J. Adam Riesling Trocken
WA #223 (Mar 2016), Review by Stephan Reinhardt, Rating 86, Drink 2016-2021
Sourced from younger vines and fermented in stainless steel, the 2014 Riesling Trocken offers a very clear and elegant bouquet of ripe white fruits. Creamy textured, this is an elegant, dry and leaner Riesling with filigreed structure, good acidity and yellow apple flavors in the finish. The wine was racked for the first time in February and kept on the fine lees until March.
Andreas Adam welcomed me in the stylishly renovated house of his grandparents in the tiny village of Dhron. I have rarely seen a top producer in such a narrow lane and in such a small house. I felt like I was guest in a film from the first half of the 20th century. I like this humble and authentic scenery ,because Adam is a small producer who is currently building his reputation with lovely, clear, bright, finesse-full and elegant Mosel Rieslings from top sites in Dhron and Piesport. He is doing this even in highly problematic vintages, such as 2012 (peronospera), 2013 and now also 2014.
"I don't need the 2014 vintage again," says Adam. "I haven't seen something like this in all my life. We had to start our harvest at the end of September in 2014, although many vintners in the valley are still saying 'Don't pick before October!' But that's old thinking. In fact, we started at the end of September and finished October 20. In particular, the warmer plots, which always had a great reputation in former times, tend to rot early nowadays ,because the grapes have a higher ripeness and the skins are much more sensible when the autumn rainfalls are setting in. As a result, we needed many, many pickers because the later it gets the more grapes were affected from wet botrytis and vinegar, also due to the warm October temperatures. Quite early, we already gave up five or six out of 40 parcels, which added up to 0.6 hectares, just to concentrate on our top vineyards. It was very important to fine the musts through cooling them down before the fermentation, because we don't like to filter them since this would take too many nutrients away that we need for the natural fermentation."
"What we have put onto the press had nothing to do with what we have seen in the vineyards. Even in our Spätlese, there is no botrytis! We have sorted it all out, even if it caused tears in the eyes of our oldest pickers. The must weights were not that high and so the wines fermented quickly to moderate volumes of 11% alcohol."
The results are stunning. No botrytis and no raisin flavors at all in all of his vines, not even the entry level estate Riesling. Adam is surely one of the top performers in the Mittelmosel in 2014, and if I had to recommend just one wine of his 2014s, it would be probably the Häs'chen. This is an old, ungrafted vineyard Adam purchased that he is now bringing back onto the map of the finest Mosel wines like before the Dhroner Hofberg, which also in 2014 brought great Rieslings again, including the beautiful Kabinett. The Auslese was already sold out and I did not taste it. Needless to mention that Adam's Goldtröpfchen is the finest next to Johannes Haart's Grosses Gewächs, and that the medium dry "in der Sängerei" is another top Riesling of Adam's convincing 2014 portfolio. Great success!
2014 A.J. Adam Dhroner Riesling Trocken
WA #223 (Mar 2016), Review by Stephan Reinhardt, Rating 88, Drink 2016-2026
Fermented partly in steel and partly in fuder, the 2014 Dhroner is a Riesling trocken with 11% alcohol that opens with a discreet fruit with some flinty notes. Racy and dry on the palate, this is a pure, straight and very salty Riesling with a pronounced acidity and mineral grip in the finish. Excellent with food.
2013 A.J. Adam Dhroner Riesling Trocken
WA #217 (Feb 2015), Review by Stephan Reinhardt, Rating 90, Drink 2018-2023
Andreas Johannes Adam's 2013 Dhroner Riesling comes from the lower, flatter part of the Hofberg which has the younger ("only 30-year-old") vines and deeper soils and does not have the Hofberg character Adam wants from this cru. The wine is vinified half in cask, half in stainless steel and was bottled with 11.5% alcohol and 8 grams of residual sugar. It is is a very clear, light, stimulatingly pure and salty wine with a good structure and an expressive character. An excellent wine for the next ten years!
Andreas Johannes Adam is a younger top name in the Mosel. Although he is about to bottle his 13th vintage, only insiders know about the outstanding qualities of Adam's Rieslings of which the 2013s are among the finest I have tasted for this report. Regarding clarity, balance, lightness, finesse and elegance, but also the confident style of his 2013s, Adam is already very close to the icon producers of the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer. Rarely have I seen a producer like him excelling in all categories from dry to sweet.
Adam, who is currently reconstructing his estate in Dhron, cultivates 4.5 hectares in the Dhrohner Hofberg (60-year-old vines, a smaller part of them un-grafted) and, together with Julian Haart, in the Piesporter Goldtröpfchen. (Thus the Piesport wines are labeled Adam & Haart.) Since 2014 Adam also cultivates the 0.26-hectare Einzellage monopole Dhrohner Häs'chen.
Adam uses stainless steeland wooden casks to ferment and age his wines. He bottles most of them in March. Of the 2013s, only the Hofberg Riesling trocken was bottled in May. The estate Riesling is fermented in stainless steel only but, as he explains, "the higher the quality of the dry wines the higher is the portion of fuders in which the wines are fermented and aged." The sweet Kabinett has "20 to 30 per cent" of cask to get "more mouth feeling especially in vintages with higher acidities," whereas Spätlesen and Auslesen are fermented in stainless steel exclusively. All of Adam's wines ferment spontaneously and almost every parcel is fermented in a particular bin except of the smallest, i.e. a 229-square-meter parcel in the Hofberg.
2014 A.J. Adam Dhroner Häs'chen Riesling Trocken
WA #223 (Mar 2016), Review by Stephan Reinhardt, Rating 92, Drink 2022-2039
Located in Dhron and facing south/southeast, with very dark slate soils, the Dhroner Häs'chen is an old vineyard planted 1933 that was bought from Weingut Reuscher-Haart. It is a 2,677 square meters monopole with ungrafted vines that survived the 1971 Weingesetz, which assembles so many Einzellagen under a new or well reputed name. Fermented and aged in a fuder, the 2014 Häs'chen offers a super clear, deep and cool, in any case fascinating bouquet that intertwines flinty slate aromas with herbs and yellow apple and pineapple aromas. Pure, dry and elegant on the palate, with a remarkable intensity, piquancy and tension, this is a full-bodied and very complex dry Riesling, with a hidden juiciness and a long and very well structured finish. This is fascinating new wine in Adam's portfolio and I am curious to learn more about this vineyard and its wines in the future. From the 2015 vintage, there will be a dry and an off-dry Kabinett released later this year.
2014 A.J. Adam Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Trocken
WA #223 (Mar 2016), Review by Stephan Reinhardt, Rating 91+, Drink 2020-2034
Adam's 2014 Hofberg offers a clear, deep and elegant, intense and smoky bouquet with concentrated aromas of ripe stone fruits. Round, intense and juicy on the palate, this is a rich and full-bodied Riesling with power, concentration and a long finish with a nice salinity in the end. Complex. This wine will benefit from further bottle aging of four or more years and can age for more than 20 years. It has 12% alcohol.
2013 A.J. Adam Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Trocken
WA #217 (Feb 2015), Review by Stephan Reinhardt, Rating 93+, Drink 2018-2030
Selected twice (in the vineyard and at the winery to process only healthy grapes), 100% fuder-fermented and bottled in May 2014, the 2013 Dhroner Hofberg Riesling trocken has a very clear and precise nose displaying ripe peach and nectarine aromas intertwined with slate flavors. This leads to an impressively intense, filigreed and pure wine which develops power and finesse and does not have a single gram of fat. Sourced from 60-year-old and partly ungrafted vines this 12.4% natural alcohol cru is a full-bodied, elegant, precise and crystalline Riesling with an impressive purity and terroir expression. It has just begun its flight and could be even finer in half a year.
2014 A.J. Adam In der Sängerei Riesling Feinherb
WA #223 (Mar 2016), Review by Stephan Reinhardt, Rating 93, Drink 2020-2045
Located in a very warm vineyard in the Dhroner Hofberg and from 60-year-old vines, the 2014 in der Sängerei is a medium dry Riesling fermented and aged in traditional fuders. Intensely yellow in color and with fine, fully ripe and concentrated Riesling flavors on the nose, this is a rich and piquant, discreetly sweet and salty Riesling of great purity and elegance. This is a noble food wine with a nice and juicy but precise fruit, and a very long and aromatic finish. This wine was picked with a certain proportion of perfectly selected botrytis. Great and perfect with food. Only 10.5% alcohol plus 25 grams of residual sugar.
2013 A.J. Adam In der Sängerei Riesling Feinherb
WA #227 (Feb 2015), Review by Stephan Reinhardt, Rating 91, Drink 2015-2030
The 2013 Riesling In der Sängerei Riesling feinherb comes from a one-hectare vineyard inside the Hofberg. It is a new (virtually ancient) Einzellage whose grapes are too ripe for dry wines, whereas the acidity is too smooth for sweet predicates. For this reason this is the only offical feinherb style Adam is producing. It is a rich, quite powerful, very juicy, intense and elegant Riesling displaying its fine slate aromas only in the finish. Much richer than the other wines of the small estate this is a very food-friendly wine.
2014 A.J. Adam Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Kabinett
WA #223 (Mar 2016), Review by Stephan Reinhardt, Rating 92, Drink 2016-2034
Sourced in the back of the side valley from healthy grapes with 79° Oechsle, the steel-fermented 2014 Hofberg Kabinett shows a very clear and pure, smoky-flavored bouquet with fine and ripe, yet lovely piquant Riesling flavors along with lemon aromas. Light, piquant and sweet on the palate, this is an extraordinary Kabinett because it is not just light, fruity and piquant, but also very complex and filled with tension. This is a picture-book Mosel Kabinett and it drinks pretty dry. It's a Must Buy.
2013 A.J. Adam Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Kabinett
WA #217 (Feb 2015), Review by Stephan Reinhardt, Rating 91+, Drink 2020-2040
From the cooler, late-ripening part of the Hofberg, the 8% alcohol 2013 Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Kabinett was fermented 80% in stainless steel and 20% in fuder. Bottled with approximately 50 grams of un-fermented sugar and 9.3 grams of acidity it opens lovely clear, pure and floral on the nose. Racy and lovely sweet on the palate this fascinating elegant and piquant Kabinett is a sort Scharzhofberger à la Scharzhof from the Mosel. Really stunning and persistently salty.
2014 A.J. Adam Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Spätlese
WA #223 (Mar 2016), Review by Stephan Reinhardt, Rating 92, Drink 2016-2040
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.
2013 A.J. Adam Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Spätlese
WA #217 (Feb 2015), Review by Stephan Reinhardt, Rating 94+, Drink 2025-2045
Even the 2013 Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Spätlese remains a mineral and flinty wine, but offers more fruit intensity and ripeness than the Kabinett. Very elegant and full of finesse this Riesling combines sweetness and intensity with salinity and piquancy and finishes as a lovely precise and persistent Spätlese with honey and grapefruit notes in the aftertaste. One of the stellar Spätlesen of the 2013 vintage in the Mosel valley!
2013 A.J. Adam Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Auslese
WA #217 (Feb 2015), Review by Stephan Reinhardt, Rating 96, Drink 2015-2040
"I want to produce drinkable Auslesen made from ripe Riesling berries but without botrytis," says Andreas Adam whose regular 2013 Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Auslese I prefer to the one starred which was made from botrytis grapes. Very clear pineapples and honey aromas on the flinty/spicy nose lead to a lovely concentrated, sweet and elegant palate structured by minerals and a laser-like acidity. Piquant and precise like a laser sword. Harvested at the beginning of November, when the skins were very thin. "There is only a small harvest window for this style of Auslese," Adam added. Obviously he found the window open.
