While I am not thinking I agree, I may have found his equivalent…
St. Urbans-Hof Qba Riesling 2007 – Black label with gold highlights, slender green bottle… could this be the man or wine in the leather and speedo?
Lightly straw yellow (surfer’s tan?) highlights with a pale green hue the UrbansHof (the Hof) was actually a bit disappointing upon opening. The smell was there – lemon curd or baked lemon tart with just a hint of sweet pastry crust at the end. But I found there was effervescence that I thought distracting at first taste. So I had a little and put it away for a while. On the second try… there were the chiseled features that made guys want to be him and enough sweetness for the women to swoon. Lemon Bar in the scent with hints of other confectionary and powdered sugar to a baked crumble smell at the back end. Tasting, it was lemon curd, or that lemon bar flavor, to lemon sherbet that coated the teeth and tongue as it moved to the morning ruby grapefruit with a touch of sugar sprinkled on top. It rounded back out with lemon Italian soda taste that finished with a pieces of dry ground slate. There was a wonderful acid length throughout that coated and holds the flavors together.
If you try this wine I’d open and taste straight away to see if the fizz is there… if distracting/detracting as I found it, leave it open for a while and come back to it. I wondered at first why this wine was so recommended but after my second, third, and so on tastes... So whether you like the wine or the man, this does live up to the name; but which came first the Hof or the Hoff? It doesn’t really matter as long as you remember with
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You don’t mess with the Hoff, you just idolize…Flavor Profile: 3/5 at first 4/5 later
Value Profile 4/5 ($15)
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Joel, I have to agree with your observation of spritz. It is light, but definitely there. Personally I consider it an attribute rather than a flaw.
This is indeed a wine of which mother-in-laws say: "See I like this wine the best so far.", but which has something for the cognoscenti as well. It definitely holds it's own and deserves to be understood on its own terms.
Wait a day and the spritz (may be its the Hoff's sea spray from bay watch;)) goes away and this becomes a stunner.
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