Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 90.1 points

  • Nice bit of sweet to end the evening. Drinking well.

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  • Perhaps (half) bottle variance is coming into play. Compared to my previous note the balancing acidity had significantly diminished and so, while the taste profile was much the same (and remains still in the excellent bracket), the excitement had gone. Comes to all with age!!
    One more to go and while earlier notes support my consume by '24 estimate probably now in the drink-up zone - especially in the smaller format.

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  • Second Dönnhoff of the week albeit the last was a GG! 5yrs since my last (half) bottle but could have been yesterday.
    Pineapple core: restrained, clean botrytis-free sweetness and perfect touch of acidity for balance. No diesel. A brilliant fresh but concentrated simple wine and another seemingly immortal riesling. Perfect accompaniment with our strawberry and blueberry Pavlova.
    Now and till 2024 (and probably well beyond).

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  • #16-00, 8.5% abv. From half-bottle. A bit of a weaker vintage, for sure, with the rot here showing a little bit dirty. Fairly dark in colour, though nothing here really points to poor storage. There's a hint of apricot jam on the nose, as well as some caramel and spice. The palate's attack is brilliant, promising lots of sweetness and complexity, but the midpalate and finish seem to taper off, and there's a little bit of unclean rot here, but overall, this is still a splendid bottle of auslese.

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  • Not impressed by this - the most disappointing wine I've had from Donnhoff in some time. The aromatics are pretty, offering plenty of bright fruit, honey, and spice, but the palate is hollow and flat, showing little in terms of either depth or energy. It feels soft and creamy in the manner of some of the weakest '99s I've had, with very little complexity.

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  • By David Schildknecht
    January/February 2001, IWC Issue #94, (See more on Vinous...)

    (Hermann Donnhoff Oberhauser Brucke Riesling Auslese) Login and sign up and see review text.

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