Best bottle yet. The GK richness rounded out the usual disconnect between spatlese slight sweetness and angularity (i..e, round for 3/4) that separates these from aged auslesen. Fully round, richly complex, with lots of apricot, tropical flowers and core cumquat fruit. Drink.
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This bottle far out performed the first, as did the subsequent bottle. Now wonderfully integrated, with tropical fruit emerging at the edges and a more complex mouthfeel and integration of acid, tropical flower hints and fruit led more by orange/fusel/honeycomb.. drink now with 10-15 of air.
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Like a fine tree with a healthy trunk but shorn of branches and leaves. Put less metaphorically, the great Donnhoff, even with GK, did not escape the vintage. Beautiful medium amber color, a faint nose with vague apricot and citrus rind, and on the palate lots of freshness and decent acid, but almost no flowers, fruit or any delineated elements. So alive, strong but just the trunk. I hope the other 11 bottles show more. Drink up.
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8/5/2023 - Sotto325 wrote: 93 Points
Best bottle yet. The GK richness rounded out the usual disconnect between spatlese slight sweetness and angularity (i..e, round for 3/4) that separates these from aged auslesen. Fully round, richly complex, with lots of apricot, tropical flowers and core cumquat fruit. Drink.
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9/14/2022 - Sotto325 wrote: 91 Points
This bottle far out performed the first, as did the subsequent bottle. Now wonderfully integrated, with tropical fruit emerging at the edges and a more complex mouthfeel and integration of acid, tropical flower hints and fruit led more by orange/fusel/honeycomb.. drink now with 10-15 of air.
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8/12/2022 - Sotto325 wrote: 89 Points
Like a fine tree with a healthy trunk but shorn of branches and leaves. Put less metaphorically, the great Donnhoff, even with GK, did not escape the vintage. Beautiful medium amber color, a faint nose with vague apricot and citrus rind, and on the palate lots of freshness and decent acid, but almost no flowers, fruit or any delineated elements. So alive, strong but just the trunk. I hope the other 11 bottles show more. Drink up.
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