High-end mature Riesling (Restaurant Brunnenstube, Beinstein): Glass: Schott Definition Universal Beautiful comparison: 2001 against 2002. I was the only one who preferred the 2002 though. 2002 was for me the fresher, more energetic wine. Others found it too sweet, but I really enjoyed it. Very precise, fresh and mineral with a lovely length. 92-93
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I really had high hopes for this bottle, as it should be right in my wheelhouse. But once again, a Donnhoff wine left me cold. The aromatics were compelling and truly soaring in both elegance and complexity, but in the mouth, it was....good enough. I suppose. Like most other Donnhoffs I've had, it lacked energy and electricity, so it came off as a nicely mature, but ultimately dull bottle. Yeah, I just don't get it.
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Thirteen years post vintage, this bottle (hand carried from Germany in 2003) is a monument to grace, elegance, power and complexity all in one wine. There have been a few wines in my experience that were essence of their variety, and this is another, still showing dry peach fruit, herb, salt, mineral, and an airy presence that carries on long after the wine is consumed. There's not a lot of dry German Riesling that gets aged to this extent, but this is an argument for patience, as great wine ages into greater wine.
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Fully evolved, still fresh nose. Strange and funny spicyness reminding of dill (!). Some granite and some rubber. Nice yellow fruit and discrete petrol (20%). Good depth and some perfume notes. Fullish, mature, spicy palate. Good minerality, good apple fruitiness and some honey. Dry - off-dry. Lacks some dimensions in the fruit spectra. A bit holllow in the mid-palate. And slightly lacking in finish. In a perfect drinking window.
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Interesting to taste this next to the 2001. It's hard to tell if this is the bigger wine or if it's simply more generous with what it's got. The fruit here is expansive and borderline plush, at least in contrast, although it still has a little bit of that fundamental trocken austerity.
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Rieslings at Grand Sichuan (NYC): Started out a little funky, but the nose with time cleared to show bright lemon and lime flavours mingled with spices, minerals, mint and wet clay notes. Slightly austere in the mouth with tart citrus pith notes over lots of minerals and salty notes and bright acidity. Very enjoyable, but that 01 was really a hard act to follow.
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$39.99 full retail. 12.0 % alcohol listed on the label. Lots of mold on the cork - strangely, patches of mold about half way down the cork...? Expressive nose of minerals, light petrol, and lemon. Your mouth starts to water just from the aroma. On the palate it is a little rounder than I had expected, with slightly less precision that I was hoping for. There is a rigid beam of acidity at the core of this wine, and it certainly finishes with a nice range of dry minerals and citrus. I suspect this will age quite well. Very nice, though at $40 I'm not going back for more...
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Nose: First impression is petroleum but not the kind of petroleum you get in old rieslings. A more sweet and aromatic tone. Just a hint of coffe and then alot of peach and pinapple.
Taste: Tropical fruits such as pineapple, peach, apricots and tangerins. Also ripe cherrys. in the aftertaste there is also a hint of roasted coffe beans.
The acidity is so well integrated that one at first gets the impression that this wine is low on acidity. After a few glasses your whole mouth tells you differnt.
My experience with Riesling is to small for me to grade this wine. But I liked it alot and will buy some more. I think it will be a beauty in five years and then for a long time after that.
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3/9/2024 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 93 Points
High-end mature Riesling (Restaurant Brunnenstube, Beinstein): Glass: Schott Definition Universal
Beautiful comparison: 2001 against 2002. I was the only one who preferred the 2002 though. 2002 was for me the fresher, more energetic wine. Others found it too sweet, but I really enjoyed it. Very precise, fresh and mineral with a lovely length. 92-93
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7/8/2020 - NYC_Maenad wrote:
I really had high hopes for this bottle, as it should be right in my wheelhouse. But once again, a Donnhoff wine left me cold. The aromatics were compelling and truly soaring in both elegance and complexity, but in the mouth, it was....good enough. I suppose. Like most other Donnhoffs I've had, it lacked energy and electricity, so it came off as a nicely mature, but ultimately dull bottle. Yeah, I just don't get it.
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9/22/2015 - Rieslingfan wrote:
Thirteen years post vintage, this bottle (hand carried from Germany in 2003) is a monument to grace, elegance, power and complexity all in one wine. There have been a few wines in my experience that were essence of their variety, and this is another, still showing dry peach fruit, herb, salt, mineral, and an airy presence that carries on long after the wine is consumed. There's not a lot of dry German Riesling that gets aged to this extent, but this is an argument for patience, as great wine ages into greater wine.
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6/14/2014 - Argrath wrote: 88 Points
Fully evolved, still fresh nose. Strange and funny spicyness reminding of dill (!). Some granite and some rubber. Nice yellow fruit and discrete petrol (20%). Good depth and some perfume notes.
Fullish, mature, spicy palate. Good minerality, good apple fruitiness and some honey. Dry - off-dry. Lacks some dimensions in the fruit spectra. A bit holllow in the mid-palate. And slightly lacking in finish. In a perfect drinking window.
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4/22/2011 - Pavan wrote: 92 Points
Perfect appetizer
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3/11/2009 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 89 Points
Interesting to taste this next to the 2001. It's hard to tell if this is the bigger wine or if it's simply more generous with what it's got. The fruit here is expansive and borderline plush, at least in contrast, although it still has a little bit of that fundamental trocken austerity.
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3/10/2009 - henrychinaski wrote: 87 Points
Weird playdough like nose. Someone else said wet red clay. Also some hints of mint. Possibly an off bottle.
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3/10/2009 - salil wrote: 90 Points
Rieslings at Grand Sichuan (NYC): Started out a little funky, but the nose with time cleared to show bright lemon and lime flavours mingled with spices, minerals, mint and wet clay notes. Slightly austere in the mouth with tart citrus pith notes over lots of minerals and salty notes and bright acidity. Very enjoyable, but that 01 was really a hard act to follow.
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1/16/2006 - Russell Faulkner wrote:
Riesling & Pizza (London): Very young, tight, low intensity, good lenth and body.
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11/13/2005 - Ben Andersen wrote:
$39.99 full retail. 12.0 % alcohol listed on the label. Lots of mold on the cork - strangely, patches of mold about half way down the cork...? Expressive nose of minerals, light petrol, and lemon. Your mouth starts to water just from the aroma. On the palate it is a little rounder than I had expected, with slightly less precision that I was hoping for. There is a rigid beam of acidity at the core of this wine, and it certainly finishes with a nice range of dry minerals and citrus. I suspect this will age quite well. Very nice, though at $40 I'm not going back for more...
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8/26/2005 - Dawa wrote:
Colour: Light,pale yellow like a Bdb champagne.
Nose: First impression is petroleum but not the kind of petroleum you get in old rieslings. A more sweet and aromatic tone. Just a hint of coffe and then alot of peach and pinapple.
Taste: Tropical fruits such as pineapple, peach, apricots and tangerins. Also ripe cherrys. in the aftertaste there is also a hint of roasted coffe beans.
The acidity is so well integrated that one at first gets the impression that this wine is low on acidity. After a few glasses your whole mouth tells you differnt.
My experience with Riesling is to small for me to grade this wine. But I liked it alot and will buy some more. I think it will be a beauty in five years and then for a long time after that.
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