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2017 Dönnhoff Hermannshöhle Riesling Grosses Gewächs
Dönnhoff
A perfect, steep southern slope with soils consisting of blackish grey slate and volcanic elements, extremely rich in minerals. This legendary site is the best-rated vineyard in the entire Nahe region. The vines are up to 60 years old and give yields of about 40hl/ha. 100% selective hand harvest. The must is fermented and the wine matured in stainless steel vats and classic oak barrels. A very complex Riesling of noble elegance with a hugely intense, rich fullness of flavour and deep mineral tones. A great dry wine with a mysterious, aristocratic character.
September, 2018
jamessuckling.com
98 points
This defines high elegance. Everything you look for in a dry white wine with very fine aromas of white and yellow peaches, but also a thousand wild herbs and flowers. Enormous delicacy at the very long finish. From organically grown grapes. Fair'n Green certification. Drink or hold.
April, 2019
Vinous Media
95 points
Thyme, marjoram, black tea, apple wood and pronounced pit-inflected white peach serve for pungent, smoky intrigue. As the wine takes on air, gentian adds a hauntingly bitter-sweet fragrance. The palate displays an improbably combination of richness, fleshiness and expansiveness with transparency to intricate herbal and diversely mineral impingements as well as conveying something I can only call poise. There is just enough succulence of white peach and brightness of lime to lend luscious appeal and animation while conveying a certain sense of restraint. The prodigious finishing flavors spread like a billowing carpet of herbs and bittersweet-perfume flowers strewn with stony crystals and saliva-inducing grains of mineral salts. This is not a powerful wine; but it is one that makes a powerful and profound statement and lucidly testifies to a great site. Incidentally, there are now typically four Stückfässer of this for a total volume of nearly 5,000 liters, far more than of any other Dönnhoff Grosse Gewächse.
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