Melsheimer Reiler Mullay Hofberg Riesling Brut

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Notes of passion fruit and mango accent the mandarin orange flavors in this well-knit sparkler. Lively acidity leaves a mouthwatering impression on the moderate finish. Drink now through 2025. 350 cases made, 75 cases imported.??–AZ??Region: Germany / Mosel Select to Add

Melsheimer’s 2008 Reiler Mullay-Hofberg Riesling Brut offers scents and flavors of pear and apple balanced with toasted nut bitterness and mouth-watering salinity. More polished than its extra-brut counterpart and with alluring, bittersweet, iris-like floral notes wafting throughout, this should prove delightful over at least the next two years. Well-made German Riesling Sekt never requires immediate drinking. 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