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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.9 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 93 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by tobyc on 12/16/2022 & rated 90 points: Intense golden going towards orange. Intense bouquet w. orange, petroleum and flowers. Dense, intense and almost bulky without being clumsy. The refreshing acidity upholds the elegance. Orange blossom, preserved lemons and hints of nuts. Perhaps a bit short.
Drink. (1337 views) | | | Tasted by UPL on 4/24/2021 & rated 98 points: fantastic outstanding bottle - yellow colour - what a nose... (2734 views) | | | Tasted by Invest on 1/22/2021 & rated 96 points: PnP, consumed over a period of two hours together with a tuna steak and a slightly spicy green curry. Bright intensive yellow color. On the nose very intensive, deep and different yellow fruits. Perfect match to this food, perfect balance between drink animating fantastic freshness, with a touch of lemon, and deep, intensive ripe and pure fruit, mainly apricot. The finish of multiple flavors stays on the palate for about a minute. 2007 was not an ideal vintage for German Riesling, imo too warm. But this Hermannshöhle GG is absolute outstanding from one of the best Winemaker in Germany and a great privilege to drink.
P.S.: Even the smaller wines from Dönnhoff from this vintage are still tasting very young and sooo good ! (2516 views) | | | Tasted by G_H on 7/30/2020 & rated 95 points: Candied lemon peel, vanilla, mineral, opulent and very long with a healthy acidity. Great (2662 views) | | | Tasted by NoTrollingerPlease on 6/7/2020 & rated 94 points: A relaxed afternoon with two crazy guys (@Private location, Solingen): Glass: Zalto Universal
Popped and poured, two bottles drunk in parallel over two days. Perfect bottles. Youthful pale golden color. On day one quite similar/comparable to 2004, on day two a bit weaker, more advanced with more mellow apple notes. Wonderful mineral nose with lots of yellow stone fruit. Classic Hermannshöhle with a wonderful energy depth and length. Potential for at least 5+ years. On day one certainly 95 on day two 92-93 = 94 (3284 views) | | | Tasted by Eric Becker on 3/22/2020 & rated 93 points: Bought on release and perfectly stored. Unanimous praise at the table. Light golden colour. On the nose, while initially a bit shy, a complex array develops featuring tropical fruit, earthy minerality, herbal and waxy tones and only a little petrol. In the mouth the wine is full-bodied in Riesling terms, yet with a great lift of acidity, the latter I did not expect from vintage 2007. Broad-shouldered, but proportioned and not tiring to drink. Really masterfully crafted. The wine seems to be in its prime but will probably keep for another five years at least. My preferred Riesling wines are dry Kabinett, therefore I find it difficult to score this big boy at 95+, which he probably deserves. (2554 views) | | | Tasted by canan on 2/14/2020 & rated 93 points: Martin BYO: Very intense and fresh. Slightly oxidized but still very nice. Packed with bitter grape fruit and intense lemon. Very impressive performance. (1387 views) | | | Tasted by chatters on 1/26/2020: Riesling Lunch (Frank's place in Matraville): Medium plus intensity aromas of apricot, peach, honey, slight cream, sweet spice and butter back this up. More of the same on the palate. Very rich. Super long. Beautifully balanced. Utterly lovely. (2034 views) | | | Tasted by cct on 8/29/2019 & rated 94 points: Ripe fruit. Apricot, pineapple upside down cake, florals, honey, some petrol, and porphyric rocks on the nose. Expansive on the palate with good acidity that keeps it in balance, but with a decidedly baroque slant. It's rich, with a ton of slate, good acidity, broad fruit, apricot pith, candied pineapple, lemon and orange rind. It's dense and viscous for riesling, with lots of dry extract, yet still cohesive. It seems like there may have been a little botrytis. Very long on the back end. It's rich and while it is in balance, it is in a broader, richer style. It still pulls it off very well. A much better showing than the last bottle in 2017 and more in line with the earlier notes. (2213 views) | | | Tasted by etyc on 7/18/2019: Very ripe nose of peach, honey, and tinge of lemons. Equally ripe and round palate of honeysuckle, apple, citrus, with just enough acidity/freshness. However, I recalled liking this much more when it was younger with perhaps a touch higher freshness and minerality... (2209 views) | | | Tasted by chatters on 7/9/2019: Angelica wine club - Raclette night (Strand Cellars, Croydon): Honey, peaches and stone fruit, slight tropical fruit, sweet spice. Crikey. Instant party in my mouth. Rich but not overly so, long, slight more mineral on the palate but still with plenty of fruit. Long. Very long in fact. Good. (2009 views) | | | Tasted by NoTrollingerPlease on 6/8/2019 & rated 95 points: Nahe^3: 10 vintages of Halenberg, Hermannshöhle and Felseneck + X (@Private location, Frankfurt): *** brief note from an extensive tasting ***
Glass: Gabriel Gold
Tasted blind. Bottle opened about 2-4h before, double decanted before serving.
Glowing, pale golden yellow color.
Youthful, complex and deep nose. On the palate enormous pressure and tension, lots of extract, combined with a great balance. Muscular, but never fat. Racy, ripe acidity. Very precise. Still very young and with a bright and promising future. 95-96 (2691 views) | | | Tasted by fc1910 on 3/9/2019 & rated 98 points: A Perfect Match: Riesling GG versus Beef Vol. 4 (Delta Bistro, Lagerstraße 11, Hamburg): As the Morstein before an extreme convincing bottle, an improvement in Riesling? For me , yes!
Starts with some beewax on the nose, and the acidity is a little more energetic than the Morstein bottle, but these are both absolutely TOP NOTCH Rieslings, two from the reference wineyards and estates, the fruit delicious and still this young mineralic appearance, hope I hold another bottle of this in my cellar, at the moment there is a little chaos, but will search for these bottles......., ****(*+), 98-99+ potential (2390 views) | | | Tasted by Rani on 12/27/2018 & rated 95 points: Tasted blind. This is one of the best dry Riesling’s I’ve had in living memory. Stone and orange peel on the nose, superb structure and great complexity of flavors - flint, stone fruit, allspice. Terrific and in the sweet spot of its drinking window. (885 views) | | | Tasted by Finare Vinare on 11/17/2018 & rated 93 points: Very successful development over the last years (see critical note from 11-11-26). Ripe, spicy and complex with late-harvest aromas and a touch of honey. Full-bodied with great concentration, embedded acidity and a long spicy finish. Very harmonious, not at all bitter anymore, but as the alcohol verges on high it shows best at lower temperatures. Impressive wine! (2596 views) | | | Tasted by LoireFan on 7/8/2018 & rated 93 points: Very pleasing. (2153 views) | | | Tasted by chatters on 3/28/2018: Cellartracker in the flesh with Stefan, Mats, Tomas and Basil (La Rochelle, Tokyo): Kerosene initially, meaty spice, earthy, apple. Juicy acidity, ripe apples, long, broadly rich. Called this for what it was - I brought it. (2570 views) | | | Tasted by mhensel on 2/22/2018 & rated 94 points: Dark yellow, red shimmer --- Nose saline and vanilla vapor, sea breeze, citrus notes, very appealing --- Palate fresh, acidic, silky, yellow fruit, citrus fruit, dried apple, some orange peel, minerals, nice tartness, green aspects, red grapefruit, some flint stone --- Finishes pretty long on on fruity aspects, so elegant tartness and minerals. Ageless, a beauty, elegance and vivacity, very tasty and approachable. (2408 views) | | | Tasted by Stefanos T. on 2/19/2018 & rated 95 points: Sublime dry Riesling.
Nose full of ripe fruit, peach, orange peel and floral notes.
On the palate it was very smooth, rounded, with acidity hidden beneath the fruit but still mouthcleansing. Long, tasty and very satisfying.
At a very nice point to drink, smoothed out but nowhere near decline. (2296 views) | | | Tasted by Frank Schneider on 8/17/2017 & rated 92 points: This was not as i expected. The warm year comes thru !!! Too little acidity !! As usual for 2007 !!!!!! Damed !!!!! Better drink before the rest acid is gone (2946 views) | | | Tasted by LoireFan on 7/6/2017: Did not enjoy this bottle. (2709 views) | | | Tasted by hermesbach32 on 5/17/2017 & rated 94 points: Sensational dry Riesling, this is really what a classical GG should be like! Very long, nice caramel and fruit notes and perfectly integrated acitidity flavours
Just lacking some "flair" or something that is really, really, extraordinary about it
But this is a stunningly great Riesling!! (2611 views) | | | Tasted by chatters on 10/30/2016 flawed bottle: Coravin fun - German Riesling tasting...then drinking! (E & M's in the rocks, Sydney): "From Coravin. I pick up the tiniest whiff of cork taint here which seems to blow off then also honey, cream, honeysuckle, apple and very slight lychee. In the mouth it is green appley and honeyed flavours but bone dry, superb balance, exceedingly long and exceedingly nice.
We opened this bottle to have with supper and, over time, the cork taint became more discernible. FLAW" (3559 views) | | | Tasted by salil on 5/7/2016 & rated 91 points: I preferred this when it was a bit younger. The fruit now has a slightly smoky and honeyed tinge to it, and the immense stony minerality it had in its youth isn't as intense. The flavours are more mature and perhaps more complex, but it doesn't have the sheer drinkability or youthful exuberance that made it so great to drink in its youth. It's a bit more like any other GG now with the dryness coming across more acutely, and showing a bit more austerity. (4375 views) | | | Tasted by Caruso on 3/27/2016 & rated 95 points: Golden colour, slate, wet stones, nectarine, nuts and citrus. Low acidity. Full maturity. It will hold on till 2020 for sure, maybe longer, but why wait? (3406 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By Jean Fisch and David Rayer
Mosel Fine Wines, Maturing Mosel: 10 years after retrospective of 2007, Issue #34 (4/1/2017)
(Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Trocken GG) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (6/9/2009)
(Dönnhoff, Hermannshöhle Riesling Grosses Gewächs Nahe White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Michael Schmidt
JancisRobinson.com (4/29/2009)
(Dönnhoff, Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Grosses Gewächs Nahe White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Joel B. Payne
Vinous, January/February 2009, IWC Issue #142
(Donnhoff Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Trocken Grosses Gewachs) Subscribe to see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, Mar/Apr 2008, Issue #14, The 2007 Vintage in Germany: A Great Classic In the Making
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As a help to those who purchase and cellar these wines, let it be noted that the 'Goldkapsule' does not ofen designate a higher quality bottling from the producer Dönnhoff. Herr Dönnhoff uses gold capsules on about 99 percent of the l bottlings of certain richer wines from the vineyards Oberhauser Brücke and Niederhauser Hermannshöhle and perhaps some others. Therefore it is usually unneccessary and misleading to use the term 'Goldkapsule' with Dönnhoff wines, currently. Although, just to be confusing, David Bueker mentions that there may be one or two exceptions, especially in 2001 and 2003 vintages, where Donnhoff produced "white capsule" auslesen from the Leistenberg and Dellchen vineyards (later Dellchen auslesen have gone to the gold capsules - e.g. 2006). To have to list my notes on a Cellartracker page that has a non-necessary and meaningless 'gold capsule' designation is highly irritating for me, as I feel that if I list it correctly it won't even be picked up by a search.
Another example of the confusion above is with the frequent multiple bottlings of Eisweine from the Brücke vineyard. There were at least three bottlings in 1998 and three in 2002. They occur when prolonged cold snaps allow harvesting on successive days. Usually one of these is designated the 'regular' Eiswein and the best one is sent to the Auction. Each typically has a different style. They are informally referred to by the day of the week on which they were harvested. Thus in 1998 there was a 'Samstag' Eiswein, and one for 'Sonntag' and also 'Montag'. The last named is extremely powerful, and extremely expensive; it is the Auction lot.
It is STRONGLY URGED then that when referring to Dönnhoff wines one refers to the AP number If this terminology is not used, identity can be impossible to determine. JHTRiesling Varietal character (Appellation America) | A short history of Riesling (Uncork) | Riesling (wikipedia)Großes Gewächs German wine classification
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#2014 Vintage Notes:
2014 Vintage Report by Terry Theise
2014 Vintage Report by Wine Spectator
"My gut still tells me the Saar (and to some extent) the Ruwer are better overall in 2014 than the more storied areas of the Mosel proper, but those that spent the requisite time living in their middle-Mosel vineyards made some of the most electric and "feathery" Riesling in a long time (maybe the finest in 20 years - yes, it's true!)" - Jon Rimmerman (Of course only a very short historical memory would call the Saar and Ruwer less 'storied' than the middle Mosel - jht)NaheAn der Nahe erwarten den Besucher sanftes Grün, romantische Flusstäler und dramatische Felsformationen. Dazu gastfreundliche Winzer und ihre vielfältigen Weine.
2.000 Jahre Weinbautradition hat das Anbaugebiet an der Nahe und den Nebenflüssen Glan und Alsenz. Vor kalten Winden durch den hohen Hunsrück geschützt, schaffen milde Temperaturen und viel Sonnenschein ein hervorragendes Klima für den Weinbau in dem regenarmen und sonnigen Tal. Hier wachsen auf rund 4.000 Hektar Rebsorten wie Riesling, Rivaner, und Silvaner. Auch die Spielarten des Burgunders sowie Kerner, Scheurebe, Portugieser und Dornfelder sind hier zu Hause. Lieblingskind der Winzer ist der an Finessen reiche Riesling, ein Viertel der Rebfläche ist damit bestockt.
Eine bewegte Erdgeschichte hat der Nahe-Region eine große Bodenvielfalt beschert. Die Reben wachsen auf Schiefergestein, vulkanischen Porphyr- oder Löss- und Lehmböden. Das ermöglicht eine Vielfalt an Rebsorten und Weinstilen.
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