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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.7 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 101 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by La Cave d'Argent on 4/28/2024 & rated 94 points: Dinner at Spago Beverly Hills (Beverly Hills, CA): Sampled from a well-cellared bottle, this 22-year-old, medium-to-deep golden Riesling offers a gorgeous bouquet of blood oranges, white peaches, lemon verbena, honey and meringue, all dusted with a hint of diesel. Medium-bodied and only slightly sweet, it delivers flavors congruent with the aromas, buttressed with vibrant acidity. The wine's modest 8.5% alcohol lurks quietly while the flavors build on the layered mid-palate. Long and mineral-laden on the back end, this is a beautiful wine that will easily go another decade. Drink now-2034. (239 views) | | | Tasted by dbkitc on 12/16/2023 & rated 90 points: Found another bottle - my first in ten years. I’m afraid it has lost some of its magic. Deep gold with a nice nose of Riesling grape and red apple. The palate is smooth with limited sweetness. Viscous. It’s delicious for sure but is kind of flat - lacks complexity and interest. I enjoyed this a lot more at age 10. (90) (580 views) | | | Tasted by Dancelzard on 7/14/2023 & rated 92 points: Capsule had slight leak but cork in good condition. Golden amber color, floral nose with pineapple and honey that transmits to palate, lovely mouth feel and long, smooth finish. Lovely on a hot summer night with mixed apps and for desert, pound cake with fresh montmarency cherry sauce and vanilla ice cream. (587 views) | | | Tasted by Mascarello59 on 4/7/2023: Still very nice with complexity but I felt it may be on its way down as the sweetness takes over the acidity. (840 views) | | | Tasted by d'Artagnan on 10/9/2021 & rated 90 points: Belle acidité et équilibre, c’est très bon, mais on sent moins d’éclat que la bouteille prise en 2020. Celle-ci est au début de la pente descendante. Drink up! 90-91 pts (2010 views) | | | Tasted by NickA on 9/18/2020 & rated 92 points: Lovely amber colour. A tad flabby at first, but it tightened up somewhat and that allowed me to concentrate more on the complexity - pineapple, lime, marmalade, white pepper, damp earth, Golden Delicious apple, the odd hint of kerosene. Would ideally be a little tauter (and possibly better a year or two ago), but really tasty. (2223 views) | | | Tasted by MAOC on 6/5/2020: First bottle. Coming into early maturity, this was excellently balanced with a core of lime, golden apple and more exotic elements coupled with a distinct sherbet and slate edge. Maybe just lacking the intensity to be very special, but still easily ****1/2 (1984 views) | | | Tasted by drwine2001 on 8/29/2019: Full yellow. Incredibly complex aromas of flowers, pineapple, honey, and citrus. Viscous for Spatlese, moderately sweet. Again, exotic and complex in the mouth with crystalline acidity and terrific soil on the finish. Exciting and superb-should have 15 more years ahead of it. (2646 views) | | | Tasted by d'Artagnan on 8/10/2019 & rated 94 points: Souper chez Stéphanie et Jean-Charles: Avec les fromages, une tuerie. Attaque encore vive, en pleine forme, Élégant, tout en finesse, mais avec une belle persistance aromatique et surtout une grande complexité. La longueur de la finale, très saline et complexe, est exceptionnelle. 94 pts (2452 views) | | | Tasted by Rieslingfan on 7/22/2019: Settling into an early maturity, this has developed significant bottle aged complexity, and also a texture that is both suave and energetic. There’s a golden edge to the fruit, partly honeyed and partly a bit of toasted spice. It’s wholly integrated, white light, that is clearly a sum of all its colors. (1796 views) | | | Tasted by kevin h on 5/11/2019 & rated 90 points: Golden, fully mature, tropical fruit. Possible past best. (1050 views) | | | Tasted by Zweder on 4/20/2019 & rated 92 points: Regular dinner group (@ My place): In the bouquet soft tropical fruit impressions. On the palate elegant sweetness and good acidity. (1265 views) | | | Tasted by maxima on 2/5/2019 & rated 92 points: Pour notre traditionnel souper du Super Bowl LIII.
Super accord avec le beau plateau de fromages du Québec.
Beau nez sur la cire et les H-C.
En bouche, le sucre est pas mal fondu, c'est velouté
et bien équilibré. La finale est longue et suave.
Impeccable. (1396 views) | | | Tasted by Tranquility Base on 9/26/2018 & rated 93 points: Very tasty wine. It leans toward full and sweet rather than light and dry, but with a pleasant acidity that keeps it from falling apart. It leaves a delicious aftertaste across the palette - not a lasting reverberation, but a sensuous voluptuousness in the here and now. It has aged nicely; it continues to taste very fresh. I have one more bottle that I could see drinking any time now or waiting a few years. (952 views) | | | Tasted by fournet on 2/14/2018 & rated 93 points: Off dry. Great acidity. Drinking really well right now. (1395 views) | | | Tasted by Frank Murray III on 10/1/2017: Rhys @ My Place--Part 3 (My House In The South OC): I don't much care for sweeter styled wines anymore but this one was to my liking. A deep golden color, with plenty of apricot and faint aroma of petrol. Very good @ 15 years old, didn't seem to be fading. (2531 views) | | | Tasted by fred o. on 9/30/2017: dark amber color. Nose deep, bruised apple, honey, florals/nectar. Palate off-dry but bright, apple flavors, surprisingly light bodied. Really very nice, was glad to try this. 94 pts (2038 views) | | | Tasted by Seth Rosenberg on 7/1/2017 & rated 93 points: Cracked from my stash bought on release. Golden in color. Clearly, from the nose, this is mature with red and golden apples, a bit of fig, lively and complex red and brown spice, and something else - some sort of red ore or minerality - very different and wonderful. The palate enters soft with baked apple,spice and honey, and I thought this was going to be one of those semi-generic older mature Rieslings - but I was wrong. After entry, this wine lightens up, the acid builds, and so does the focus and drive: lime, minerals, and spice and maybe a bit of green apple emerge and drive with wine into a superb point of a finish: crisp, light, flavorful and long. I'm not that big a fan of Donnhoff's wines, and I haven't had that many good aged ones, but this is excellent. Nose - 5-5.5/6, Palate - 4.5-5/6, Finish - 5-5.5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 16-17.5/20 (2782 views) | | | Tasted by Mascarello59 on 6/17/2017 & rated 92 points: Some signs of ageing but absolutely fabulous with its honeyed riesling minerality and rounded but uplifting acidity. (2210 views) | | | Tasted by DAN BAILEY on 3/1/2017: Popped and poured. Quite a dark gold colour. Lovely honeyed sweetness with a dry finish. Absolutely spectacular with the sweet sauce of kung po prawns. What a combo!!! (2215 views) | | | Tasted by Ali on 2/11/2017 & rated 92 points: Cork crumbled, but after filtering, it was drinking wonderfully. I got a tangerine with a little saffron flavor profile from this bottle. (1952 views) | | | Tasted by bpj87 on 10/2/2016: A rich gold color in the glass. Delicious flavors of red fruits and fruit salad. This was notable for its weightless, airy mouthfeel. Great integration of acid and sweetness, with a more subdued presentation than young Hermannshöhle. (2244 views) | | | Tasted by jsander on 5/22/2016 & rated 94 points: Beautiful golden color. Fruits full fresh and luscious. Almost desert sweet but not. Lovely. (2024 views) | | | Tasted by LoireFan on 2/29/2016 & rated 93 points: Fourth and final bottle is the best. (2289 views) | | | Tasted by bjlcrucrazy on 1/9/2016 & rated 96 points: Incredible wine!!!! Enjoyed with friends over cheese!! Beautiful tropical fruits integrated so well with just a wiff of petrol but oh so balanced. Maybe the best Riesling I have ever had!! (2141 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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Vinous, Grouse Club at Hunan, London, UK (Feb 2022) (2/1/2022)
(Hermann Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Spätlese White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jean Fisch and David Rayer
Mosel Fine Wines, Maturing Mosel: Notes from the cellar, Issue #34 (4/1/2017)
(Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Spätlese) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Jean Fisch and David Rayer
Mosel Fine Wines, Maturing Mosel: 10 years after retrospective of 2002, Issue #18 (4/1/2012)
(Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Spätlese) Login and sign up and see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, Jul/Aug 2006, Issue #4, The Beautiful Wines of Hermann Dönnhoff
(Hermann Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Spätlese) Login and sign up and see review text. | By David Schildknecht
Vinous, January/Febuary 2004, IWC Issue #112
(Hermann Donnhoff Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Spatlese) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (12/8/2003)
(Dönnhoff, Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Nahe White) Subscribe to see review text. |
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As a help to those who purchase and cellar these wines, let it be noted that the 'Goldkapsule' does not ofen designate a higher quality bottling from the producer Dönnhoff. Herr Dönnhoff uses gold capsules on about 99 percent of the l bottlings of certain richer wines from the vineyards Oberhauser Brücke and Niederhauser Hermannshöhle and perhaps some others. Therefore it is usually unneccessary and misleading to use the term 'Goldkapsule' with Dönnhoff wines, currently. Although, just to be confusing, David Bueker mentions that there may be one or two exceptions, especially in 2001 and 2003 vintages, where Donnhoff produced "white capsule" auslesen from the Leistenberg and Dellchen vineyards (later Dellchen auslesen have gone to the gold capsules - e.g. 2006). To have to list my notes on a Cellartracker page that has a non-necessary and meaningless 'gold capsule' designation is highly irritating for me, as I feel that if I list it correctly it won't even be picked up by a search.
Another example of the confusion above is with the frequent multiple bottlings of Eisweine from the Brücke vineyard. There were at least three bottlings in 1998 and three in 2002. They occur when prolonged cold snaps allow harvesting on successive days. Usually one of these is designated the 'regular' Eiswein and the best one is sent to the Auction. Each typically has a different style. They are informally referred to by the day of the week on which they were harvested. Thus in 1998 there was a 'Samstag' Eiswein, and one for 'Sonntag' and also 'Montag'. The last named is extremely powerful, and extremely expensive; it is the Auction lot.
It is STRONGLY URGED then that when referring to Dönnhoff wines one refers to the AP number If this terminology is not used, identity can be impossible to determine. JHTRiesling Varietal character (Appellation America) | A short history of Riesling (Uncork) | Riesling (wikipedia)Spätlese Wikipedia article on Spätlese.Niederhäuser HermannshöhleDie Lage Hermannshöhle gilt heute als die höchstbewertete der ganzen Nahe und kann sich mit ihren Erzeugnissen mit allen Spitzenerzeugnissen anderer Weinbaugebiete messen. Die Lava-Basalt-Böden ergeben Weine mit viel Nachhall, die außerdem sehr haltbar sind.
In dieser Weinbergslage haben schon die Römer vor 2000 Jahren Weinbau betrieben. Sie benannten die Lage nach dem griechischen Götterboten Hermes. Man hat später geglaubt, den Namen "Hermes-Höhle" eindeutschen zu müssen und so ist der Name "Hermannshöhle" entstanden.
Geo-Data:http://www.weinlagen-info.de/?lage_id=705Germany Wines of Germany | The Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates (VDP) | How to read a German wine label | Geographical Information Down to Single Vineyards
#2014 Vintage Notes:
2014 Vintage Report by Terry Theise
2014 Vintage Report by Wine Spectator
"My gut still tells me the Saar (and to some extent) the Ruwer are better overall in 2014 than the more storied areas of the Mosel proper, but those that spent the requisite time living in their middle-Mosel vineyards made some of the most electric and "feathery" Riesling in a long time (maybe the finest in 20 years - yes, it's true!)" - Jon Rimmerman (Of course only a very short historical memory would call the Saar and Ruwer less 'storied' than the middle Mosel - jht)NaheAn der Nahe erwarten den Besucher sanftes Grün, romantische Flusstäler und dramatische Felsformationen. Dazu gastfreundliche Winzer und ihre vielfältigen Weine.
2.000 Jahre Weinbautradition hat das Anbaugebiet an der Nahe und den Nebenflüssen Glan und Alsenz. Vor kalten Winden durch den hohen Hunsrück geschützt, schaffen milde Temperaturen und viel Sonnenschein ein hervorragendes Klima für den Weinbau in dem regenarmen und sonnigen Tal. Hier wachsen auf rund 4.000 Hektar Rebsorten wie Riesling, Rivaner, und Silvaner. Auch die Spielarten des Burgunders sowie Kerner, Scheurebe, Portugieser und Dornfelder sind hier zu Hause. Lieblingskind der Winzer ist der an Finessen reiche Riesling, ein Viertel der Rebfläche ist damit bestockt.
Eine bewegte Erdgeschichte hat der Nahe-Region eine große Bodenvielfalt beschert. Die Reben wachsen auf Schiefergestein, vulkanischen Porphyr- oder Löss- und Lehmböden. Das ermöglicht eine Vielfalt an Rebsorten und Weinstilen.
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