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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.8 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 159 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by BillBell73 on 12/26/2023 & rated 92 points: Very good, but seems a bit coiled-up, intense and lacking the exuberance this wine can have. Herbal, spicy, and structurally solid. Just a hint of age starting to creep in on the margins, otherwise this seems much younger than expected and should drink well for years. (1142 views) | | | Tasted by d'Artagnan on 10/25/2023 & rated 90 points: Quelle densité! Un vin intense et tranchant, encore tellement jeune. Très minéral, long, savoureux mais encore un peu dur. À revoir dans au moins trois ans, sinon ouvrir longtemps d'avance. 90 (++) (1388 views) | | | Tasted by winepog on 8/29/2023 & rated 92 points: Took to a corkage free night at a local French restaurant. Compared to a couple other whites on the table, this had more density, more character and more depth than the two chardonnays. Beautiful wine. (1565 views) | | | Tasted by DougLee on 6/24/2023 & rated 93 points: Light gold color. Nose of high-pitched alpine flowers, rinsed white stone, hints of petrol, white peach, faint apricot. Layers of pure white melon, lychee, flint, and diesel on the incisive palate. Cool, penetrating acidity and tensile spine. Long finish of gorgeous white fruit and dry, centering stone. A stellar young wine coming into its own and destined for timeless evolution. (1600 views) | | | Tasted by MJReb on 4/2/2023 & rated 92 points: Exotic fruit (Passionfruit) and citrus. Nice salinity, good density and length. (1922 views) | | | Tasted by Jonathanmustang on 3/30/2023 & rated 95 points: Nez énorme, puissant et ouvert, très minéral, citron, salin, fruits blancs, calcaire et une légère touche de fleur
L’attaque est puissante, très minérale, beaucoup de matière, une grosse dose d’agrumes, de poires fraîches, de fleur et c’est aussi comme licher de la roche. L’acidité est bien présente mais elle s’intègre harmonieusement dans l’ensemble.
Longue Finale crayeuse, voire éternelle, puis le citron boucle la danse pendant de longue seconde
Un vin puissant puissant mais en même temps très élégant, superbement balancé… un vrai sweet spot en ce moment !! (1721 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 3/1/2023 & rated 94 points: Pre-Paulee Warm-up Dinner (House of Nanda - Chicago IL): In great 2012 Riesling flight. Citrus and floral notes with some emerging mature notes coming through. The most "ready" of the trio and possibly the most harmonious, but the Clos St Hune is just slightly more exciting. (2316 views) | | | Tasted by Nanda on 3/1/2023 & rated 93 points: Pre La Paulée Dinner with friends (Home): 12 Donnhoff GG/Keller/CsH horizontal. Each wine showed so darn well and the Donnhoff was several people's favorite. Excellent concentration with just kiss of sweetness. Nice floral elements with plenty of cut and precision. At peak. (2216 views) | | | Tasted by ohne_musik on 12/2/2022 & rated 93 points: Intense, crystalline, and very mineral. A bit closed at first, but opens up after an hour or so. Lime, Unripe apricot, orange peel, and a formidable wall of salty minerals. A bit of petrol on the back half of the palate. Quite impressive depth and textural richness, but curiously not the most complex wine right now. Long finish of salted pineapple. (1797 views) | | | Tasted by morv on 11/25/2022 & rated 94 points: Dönnhoff Dellchen Vertical Tasting (Frankfurt): Salty caramel, bit lactic nose with lemon. Palate is nicely interwoven with an incredible aftertaste. (1741 views) | | | Tasted by LWI on 9/30/2022 & rated 93 points: Vinøs hyttetur; 9/30/2022-10/1/2022: Blind. Krydder, reduksjon, fin intensitet og lengde. Ungdommelig. (2113 views) | | | Tasted by NoTrollingerPlease on 9/3/2022 & rated 93 points: 10 years after Riesling tasting - 2012 - Part II (Concept Riesling, Düsseldorf): Glass: Gabriel Standard
Tasted blind. Clear, medium golden color. Floral, fruity and round nose. On the palate also very round and balanced. Lots of ripe yellow fruit, zesty, some CO2, very fresh and salty. Still very young. 93-94+ (2271 views) | | | Tasted by RichardP on 8/2/2022 & rated 95 points: Lychee and white apple on the nose. On the palate, pear, white peach, grapefruit, and notes of vanilla, lime, and something saline on the long finish, with strong acidity adding an almost electric sensation. This is outstanding, and I wish I had bought more. The Cellartracker drinking window looks about right. (1923 views) | | | Tasted by oldwines on 7/21/2022 & rated 94 points: Sea, Feather and Land (New Jersey): The starter wine for our “guys dinner” wine and food event, brought by one of the attendees. Light yellow color. Fragrant florals, citrus and plenty of crushed limestone. Acidity is high and the light color belies the depth and richness of the wine. Palate shows mixed citrus, green apple and maybe a hint of under-ripe white peach. Finish is long and quite saline. Beautifully balanced wine that is bright and energetic even at 10 years of age with likely many more to come if you can keep your hands off it. (2281 views) | | | Tasted by skurtz on 7/21/2022 & rated 94 points: Great green fruit, grapefruit, salinity, limestone. This is (still) perfect, consistent with my previous note. Only one bottle left. (1825 views) | | | Tasted by fc1910 on 7/2/2022 & rated 88 points: Big Bottle Outdoor Party 3.0 or so (Northern Lüneburg Heath): From D-MAG:
very fruit driven, juicy tropical fruit showing, I do have to admit, had some hmmmmm..... how to say......, inconstant bottles of this vintage,
but 2012 only, enormous density here, quite young showing from big bottle that helps this time, but again:
this vintage of Dönnhoff Hermannshöhle GG is not really convincing me! (2400 views) | | | Tasted by MJReb on 5/22/2022 & rated 92 points: Exotic fruit, mainly passion fruit, rich Riesling aromas, luckily without petrol, not large but with good length. (1714 views) | | | Tasted by NoTrollingerPlease on 5/7/2022 & rated 93 points: 10 years after Riesling tasting - 2012 (Restaurant Holz und Feuer, Kirchheim, Germany): Glass: Sophienwald Universal
Clear, pale golden color. Very floral and fruity nose, very harmonious and deep. On the palate not the immense pressure of the Felseneck, but a very beautiful balance and harmony. Equally mineral. Juicy and very young. 93+ (2791 views) | | | Tasted by Montesquieu on 4/23/2022 & rated 93 points: Mix of green and yellow apple predominates. Mineral balanced by some roundness/oiliness of age. The electricity and tension of youth are mostly now faded. Very good overall. (1879 views) | | | Tasted by MC2 Wines on 3/27/2022: Great dry Riesling. Interesting in the way that they're meant to be where there's different layers to the wine. Slightly unripe white fruits and for some reason I got maybe a bay leaf here too. Different. But wine was tasty. (2171 views) | | | Tasted by PatrickO33 on 3/26/2022 & rated 91 points: Honey, yellow apple, chalk on the nose. Very smooth on the palate, vibrant, only at the beginning of its development. (1842 views) | | | Tasted by beatles on 3/14/2022 & rated 92 points: This has arrived, probably peaking. A complete,complex, chalky wine, very vertical, elegant vertical structure.
#Hanne&Niels (2337 views) | | | Tasted by RichardP on 1/3/2022 & rated 94 points: Apple and a floral note on the nose. On the palate, white peach, grapefruit, pear, and notes of lime, salinity, and faint rubber/petrol, with strong acidity on the long finish. I wish this was still available at $50; it was a bargain at that price. (2073 views) | | | Tasted by Kepos on 11/26/2021 & rated 94 points: still a bit young, great minerality, apricot, stone fruit, great finish (1829 views) | | | Tasted by skurtz on 11/13/2021 & rated 94 points: Wow, tons of lychee and apple on the nose and palate, incredibly juicy, notes of apples too on the palate, along with some limestone and salinity, with an impeccably dry finish. Great pairing with miso glazed black cod for dinner with old friends. Hands down WOTN. 93/94 (1932 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By Jean Fisch and David Rayer
Mosel Fine Wines, Maturing Wines: Notes from the cellar, Issue #65 (4/1/2023)
(Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Trocken GG) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Jean Fisch and David Rayer
Mosel Fine Wines, Maturing Wines: 10 years after retrospective of 2012, Issue #61 (5/1/2022)
(Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Trocken GG) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Sarah Jane Evans MW
Decanter, SJE: Minerality in wine: What does it mean to you? (12/1/2014)
(Dönnhoff, Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling, Grosses Gewächs, Nahe, Germany, White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Joel B. Payne
Vinous, December 2013 (12/1/2013)
(Donnhoff Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Grosses Gewachs) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (9/12/2013)
(Dönnhoff, Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Grosses Gewächs Nahe White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Michael Schmidt
JancisRobinson.com (8/30/2013)
(Dönnhoff, Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Grosses Gewächs Nahe White) Subscribe to see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, Mar/Apr 2013, Issue #44, The 2012 German Vintage: A Throwback Vintage of Beautiful Ripeness, Zesty Acidity and Virtually No Botrytis
(Hermannshöhle Riesling Grosses Gewächs – Weingut Dönnhoff) Login and sign up and 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)Großes Gewächs German wine classification
All about Grosses Gewächs (German)Germany 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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