2018 Dönnhoff Dellchen Riesling Großes Gewächs

Community Tasting Notes (23) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  2/17/2024 - vulgar little monkey wrote: 93 Points

  This was delicious and much more approachable than the Christmann Vogelsang but that could be age, style, vintage or all three. Tons of yellow fruits and flowers on the nose and palate. Rich as expected given the vintage, but far from clumsy or blowsy, at least to me. Dönnhoff GGs seem to really hit a sweet spot for me. They are "Burgundian" in texture but with a Riesling flavor profile. I find them great at the table. This is great now and should continue to be so. This was my last bottle, but I'd pick up more at the right price.

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  9/10/2023 - Realityrichard Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Trotz des recht jungen und warmen Jahr 2018 steht gerade eindeutig die Mineralik im Vordergrund. Stein, bisschen Erde, etwas Pfirsisch. Über allem ein starker Grip und das typische erhabene Schweben mit Honig ist noch nicht ganz da. Keine Frage: ein komplexer Wein. Der in den nächsten Jahren sich selbst noch übertreffen wird zu heute. Nächste Flasche 2027++

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  2/15/2023 - awever Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Wird immer besser

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  2/12/2023 - R2-D2 wrote: 94 Points

  WSET Diploma Class Tasting with Peter Neptune; 2/4/2023-3/31/2023 (Costa Mesa, CA): Medium Lemon
  N: Pronounced intensity, developing; meyer lemon, petroleum/petrol, pine nuts, white peach, bruised apple/pear, apple blossom, mineral, slate, yogurt.
  P: Dry, high acid but buffered by dry extract, medium alcohol, medium(+) body, high intensity; peach, nectarine, apple, pear, mineral, slate, green almond, lemon yogurt, petrol; Long finish.
  Outstanding; complex with high intensity
  Suitable for Bottle Aging; high acid, fruit structure (lemon, stone fruit, tree fruit)

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  9/21/2022 - Palisades57 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Opens up with air. Exciting fresh wine with an excellent nose of white and yellow stone fruit. Starts thin and sparkly like a txakolina but as it opens up it rounds out into more white stone fruit and citrus flavors. The palate shows good concentration and a good finish with bitter lemon rind.
  
  Overall very nice and continues to open up in the glass over a period of hours.

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