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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.5 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 170 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by David Meddings on 4/26/2024 flawed bottle: Dark gold yellow. Oxidised but drinkable. These were best after about 12 years. (62 views) | | | Tasted by Realityrichard on 9/2/2023 & rated 90 points: Erste Alterungsspuren. Saftige Nektarine. Ein schöner Sommerbegleiter, der vermutlich allen gefällt die nichts gegen fruchtsüß haben. Mir persönlich fehlt etwas der Gegenpart: die Säure. Stellenweise quietscht er und blind kann es für mich auch eine Spätlese sein. Vielleicht hat er seine highperformance bereits hinter sich. (560 views) | | | Tasted by fizz on 4/19/2023: Cork. Alc 8.5%.
Pristine orchard fruits, balanced acid and sweetness. Seamless, harmonious. (832 views) | | | Tasted by DaleW on 1/3/2023: Peaches, lime, nice balance, doing just fine. Gets quite floral (citrus blossoms with air). Sweet but not at all cloying, more apparent acid than in youth. B+ (1075 views) | | | Tasted by Wrighty on 10/30/2022: Light, bright colour. Showed sweet against and Aussie and Alsace Riesling (1171 views) | | | Tasted by Ingmars on 8/13/2022: At nearly 15 years of age, this is in good shape. On the two previous occasions I've drunk it in 2009 and 2015 I rated it fine. Back in 2009 it was very primary, of course, and all about apples. In 2015, it was yellow peach and apricot, perhaps because that next bottle, in retrospect, now seems to have been a little advanced, with its burnished, mature-looking yellow colour. I found that bottle to certainly behave more like a spätlese, than a kabinett. This 3rd bottle contained a wine of a medium yellow colour and a nose that initially was more citrus than anything else, with a dash of exotic fruit in the background. After an hour, the citrus was replaced by something akin to waxy pear which has seen a smattering of dried herbs – making it more interesting than when first opened. When first put to the mouth, it was also suggestive of a lighter spätlese with a good concentration of sweet yellow fruit. For the first hour, I thought it very good, but less complex than expected. Yet, when the nose changed its direction to pear, the palate improved, becoming more like proper kabi, light on its feet and fresh as a daisy. Very good plus in the end. Will cellar well on the basis of this bottle. (1079 views) | | | Tasted by Wrighty on 1/28/2022 & rated 91 points: Quite a rich yellow colour. Soft apple and floral hints on the nose with an undercurrent of wet slate too. Palate is more conference pear than apple with a decent, lovely lingering finish. Certainly showing a little maturity equating to a fuller figure but drinking beautifully. (1187 views) | | | Tasted by hargy on 12/12/2021 & rated 89 points: this was a bit flat and lacking in acidity this evening - still a well made kabinett (1030 views) | | | Tasted by David Meddings on 11/16/2021 & rated 90 points: Consistent with previous notes. These are losing some of their florality but are still excelent Kabinett. Disappeared. (1082 views) | | | Tasted by moods on 4/23/2021 & rated 90 points: This is a delicious off dry wine, with nice stone fruit marmalade flavors and refreshing mineral lift. Maybe a zest of lime in there too. Has aged very nicely. (1518 views) | | | Tasted by M.Batard on 1/3/2021 & rated 91 points: Lemons and peaches, with light acidity. Delightful paired with both Bombay rolls and Cilantro chutney chicken...so there wasn’t enough! Sadly, my last bottle from this vintage. (1552 views) | | | Tasted by drwine2001 on 6/13/2020: Medium yellow. This leads with aromas and flavor of pineapple and yellow peach, deceiving you into thinking that it will be exotic and sweet. It is neither, as this brief tropical burst is cut through by zesty lime and grapefruit. Surprisingly light and lively on the palate. Excellent Kabinett, not yet fully mature.
My word, even more crystalline and mineral the next day, with explosive orange peel. Now off dry. (1786 views) | | | Tasted by MAOC on 3/27/2020: Bit more open than bottle in 2018. Lime, pear, orange blossom hints, a note of jasmine, against a background of shimmery wet slate. ***1/2+ (1252 views) | | | Tasted by moods on 2/1/2020 & rated 89 points: Certainly on its plateau and drinking nicely. More developed notes and flavors than the fruit forward bottles I tried over the past few years. Feel like it needs to be drunk colder than maybe usual to avoid it coming across as flat and flabby. Certainly a nice aperitif. (1286 views) | | | Tasted by Rieslingfan on 5/8/2019: Drinking very well now, this is riding a plateau of maturity. There's still primary, peachy fruit, accompanied by light touches of smoke and brown spices. Losing some of its baby fat has brought out the structure a little more, which is a positive for a rich vintage. This should drink for another 10+ years. (1855 views) | | | Tasted by fc1910 on 4/24/2019 & rated 84 points: A Too short Visit to Wine and Tapas Paradise; 4/24/2019-4/28/2019 (Iberia Business Class, Cuenllas, La MAMA, La Tasqueria, Palo Cortado, Iberia Business Lounge Madrid): For me a too mature bottle, maybe not stored under good conditions, a little flat, lacking the tension of a good, classic Kabinett, indicated by the far too golden colour of this bottle, will try another on some day, a little disappointing, *-** (1950 views) | | | Tasted by fc1910 on 2/22/2019 & rated 90 points: Purchased very recently by auction, very reasonable price tag, there is only one word for this specific bottle: HARMONY! this fresh, very elegant appearance on the midpalate, some ripe peaches, a mouthful of wine, long finish, will keep this condition for several years, ***(+-?), (1609 views) | | | Tasted by DollarMenunaire on 1/21/2019: I always thought this vintage of Leistenberg is distinctly loose and low energy. I waited a while for my last bottle here to see if it would find focus but it basically showed the same as remembered. I'll get into my 6-pack of 2009s soon and see how that goes. (1458 views) | | | Tasted by the godfather on 1/20/2019: Lots of secondary, very delicious (1364 views) | | | Tasted by chibaken on 12/4/2018 & rated 93 points: Lime, pear, apple, touch of almond, with an unctuous rich palate beautifully balanced with refreshing acidity. Age has made this a harmonious delight. (1277 views) | | | Tasted by David Meddings on 6/26/2018 & rated 92 points: This simply vanished with some friends on a lovely summer evening. Notes from memory. Medium dark yellow. Still floral on the bouquet but perhaps less so than earlier in it's evolution. On the palate this also is heading towards a more tertiary style of wine - still the same lovely balance and mouthfeel but more integrated. Hard to say in retrospect, but I wonder if I do not enjoy the earlier stages here, where the white flower and orchard fruit profile seemed distinctly different components.
As I said - this disappeared quietly and was a source of great pleasure, so still very much firing on all cylinders. Wonderful value and glad I bought 18 of these on release. (1816 views) | | | Tasted by MAOC on 6/7/2018: Bright and energetic from the get-go, this was very green fruit dominated - lime, pear, herb - but not lacking in richness, certainly of its vintage. Really lovely but maybe still better in 3-4 years? Did feel like it closed down a bit after 30mins. ***1/2 (1463 views) | | | Tasted by BillBell73 on 6/3/2018: The amazing thing to me about Donnhoff is how intense and beautiful even the Kabinetts can be. Very rich but balanced with acidity and starting to show the benefits of age. World class, damned near perfect riesling for $20 and change...I would love to see this in a blind tasting with Egon Muller Spatlese from the same vintage. (1462 views) | | | Tasted by Blacksmith450 on 9/18/2017 & rated 91 points: Beau jaune à l'oeil, nez typé. Bouche grasse avec un sucre perceptible. Belle finale. (2905 views) | | | Tasted by cweiss on 9/17/2017: Chatham. Always a star. Such a light touch despite intensity of flavors including yellow fruits and a cherry note. Drink or hold. (1815 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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JancisRobinson.com (7/7/2008)
(Dönnhoff, Oberhäuser Leistenberg Riesling Kabinett Nahe White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (7/7/2008)
(Dönnhoff, Oberhäuser Leistenberg Riesling Kabinett Nahe White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Chris Kissack
Winedoctor, June 2008
(Dönnhoff Oberhäuser Leistenberg Riesling Kabinett) 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
(Dönnhoff Oberhäuser Leistenberg Riesling Kabinett) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (12/18/2008)
(Dönnhoff Oberhäuser Leistenberg Riesling Kabinett) Light yellow color; herbal, mineral, lemon rind nose; tart, tight, lemon, baked lemon palate, crisp, with some depth; medium finish 92 points |
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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. JHT2007 Dönnhoff Oberhäuser Leistenberg Riesling KabinettA.P.Nr. 7753010 09 08
The awesomely geologic Nahe valley is overlooked by its highest volcanic hill, the Lemberg, hanging hundreds of meters over the town of Oberhausen. From the top, from the charmingly shabby Lembergerhütte restaurant (mentioned in 100 year old Baedekers) you look near the old train station you can just pick out a grey-har throwing stone shingles off a truck in front of the Dönnhoff tasting room. Across the river the great conical hill of the Hermannshöhle is visible. The amazingly steep dirt-tracked road up to the restaurant is webbed with dead-end lanes off which some sixties-era dropouts still have cottages, and a trip of 3 miles might take you an hour unless you take along a local guide. Be warned!
However, it's worth every white-knucked nailbite, even if you end up paying repair bills on your rented Mercedes, as we did.
From the top you can see below, between yourself and the town, the formerly little-known Leistenberg (a sloped wave of a vineyard), in the riches of the Middle-Nahe plots owned by Helmut D's agricultural wonderland, relegated to the production of Gutsweine and anonymous Kabinetten, the coarse wines that kept the Nahetal peasants from drinking the cholera-laced surface waters and deadly foodborne illnesses. The answer to why simple Dönnhoff wines were so fine was quite simple--they were all or mostly from the Leistenberg. While lacking the joyful lacy frivolity or crystal-clear gluggableness of his greater growths, these wines, if you allow their slightly hard, slighty tight Spätlese-ripeness to dissipate, leave a rich exotic muscularity and romantic value in their off-dry and dry wines. Sometimes it takes days in the decanter for the riper wines to give up their flickering sensations, like a wood fire needing to die down until its warmth and light, while becoming steadier, are more comfortable. Nowhere does Meister's double root show better as he balances on a literal bridge between the Bavarian Catholic peasantry and the Prussian protestantw who rules them. He's only about the third generation between the squabbling parts of his family who argued over the elopement of his faith-variegated paternal grandparents, who made as much money off vegetables grown in the rich volcanic soil and mild climate of the region. It was only his father who decided to concentrate more and more on the grape, and Helmut was the first of his family who was a weinbauer complete and simple.
For not only the soil amazingly changeable, with its vains of devout blood-red volcanism biercing greay and variegated slate with crumbling iron-rich sandstone, and sprinkles of loess and quartzite degraded and transported by the swift river, whose huge drainage in great cycles of wet years continued its fight to try to bore down into these crumbly, gem-ridden rocks. Perhaps the best way to describe one of Helmut's great wines would be to think of them as literally vehicles for dissolved gems. No wonder my life was changed forever by a 1976 Nahe Beerenauslese, whose every last bottle available I purchased.
This 2007 Leistenberg Kabinett is astonishing. with hints of greay, green pink, and light ocher, it's just -so delicate minerology dusted with bitter sherry. You can drink now or hold. It would convert inaccuracy and word-wastage to describe the nearly endless finish her, and it shows decades of of life ahead. jhtRiesling Varietal character (Appellation America) | A short history of Riesling (Uncork) | Riesling (wikipedia)KabinettLowest must sugar content of Prädikat designation resulting in light wines, typically semi-sweet with crisp acidity.Oberhäuser Leistenberg Here you can see why the Leistenberg is right for KabinettGermany Wines of Germany | The Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates (VDP) | How to read a German wine label | Geographical Information Down to Single Vineyards
#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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