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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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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