A Wine Critic’s Revelation
2022 Adamswein Ingelheim Weissburgunder + 2022 Adamswein Ingelheim Chardonnay Lohfpad
September 13, 2024
"Dr. Simone Adams is one of Germany's, nay, the world's, best up-and-coming winemakers
“[Her}wines turned out to be a revelation,“ Stuart Piggott
My German friend Georg, an apostle of his country's wines, approved when I told people that global warming is making Germany the future of Burgundy. Goerg has taken too much pleasure in giving me Pinots and Chardonnay blind, which I guess is Burgundy.
Stuart Piggot, who has long written on German wines, had a parallel reaction when he tasted Simone Adams wines. He found them all outstanding for their purity and definition.
Simone Adams works in Ingelheim in the Rheinhessen, just across the river from the Rheingau, exclusively in Pinots and Chardonnay. In the most modern reinvention of traditional winemaking, her grapes are organic and grown biodynamically. All of her wines are spontaneously fermented. She works entirely naturally, with no additions and no fining or filtration.
We loved two of her whites.
2022 Adamswein Ingelheim Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc)
"a cleaner, more focused interpretation of Pinot Blanc may not exist" Piggott
Simone's Weissburgunder is among the highest character examples of the variety in the market. Fermented and aged entirely in stainless steel and maintained on its lees until bottlings, the purity of Ingelheim's terroir is fully displayed.
Aroma: Firm, herbal, intense, firm, clear, and rounded apple-pear; Mouth: Clean, smooth, slate tinged mouth-filling ripe fruit, rounded and complete; Very Good- Excellent for purity $24.99; Special Case, $19.99
2022 Adamswein Ingelheim Chardonnay Lohfpad;
The single vineyard Lohfpad, Chardonnay, has the enticing elegant quality that has made expensively produced wines from Burgundy's Cote d'Or so sought after. It's a soft, refined, savory spice that is the synthesis of just-ripe enough fruit grown on limestone soils, with good acids and judicious use of oak; a flavor that many other countries aspire to but few succeed.
You can both pleasure your palate and, like Georg, amaze and delight your friends by serving them this wine, label averted. Everyone will love it, and many burgundy aficionados will guess wrong about its origin
It needs air to really show its stuff. On opening the bottle, oak is more apparent than it will show later with some air or some months in the bottle.
Aroma: razor-defined ripe acids, firm, heady fruit melded with oak; Mouth: Oak in a Burgundian, style rounded firm, good acid very nicely balanced, some noticeable oak on a long finish; Excellent $42; Case, $35
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