Melsheimer Reiler Mullay Hofberg Riesling Extra Brut

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Melsheimer’s 2008 Reiler Mullay-Hofberg Riesling Extra-Brut – which like all of his sparkling wines spends 18 months (and occasionally longer) on the lees – smells of iris, with yeast-shrouded plum and cherry distillate. Toasty, alkaline, lemon rind, and bitter fruit pit notes inform a palate slightly unruly in its pungency and coarse in its mousse, yet the array of flavors is striking and impressively persistent. I would plan to drink this over the next couple of years. I was so fascinated by the highly distinctive wines I tasted last year from organic pioneer Melsheimer (reported on in issue 187, where I also describe some of the many sites he cultivates) that I felt compelled to return. Unfortunately, he was abroad selling for the entire time that I spent in Germany, but I visited and tasted a substantial portion of the 2009 collection with his family. Several dry wines, including some he considers among his top lots were, however, in too unfinished a state even in September for him to be willing to show them to me, and it is to be expected that some of his 2009s will only be offered for sale next year. So far, I have tasted relatively few older Melsheimer wines, and they are all conspicuously (I mean sensorially, not merely on paper) low in sulfur, so I prefer to be both conservative and vague in any prognoses of age-ability.Imported by Domaine Select Wine Estates, New York, NY; tel. (212) 279-0799