July 7, 2023 - Carambole, litchi, silex, un vin possédant beaucoup de mineralité et d'acidité. Un riesling Allemand classique mais niveau équilibre ce n'est pas le plus bel exemplaire. Quelques années de garde lui fera un grand bien afin de calmer la structure et faire sortir le fruit.
June 19, 2023 - Still very fresh, bright apple, good acidity, white blossom, lime, well balanced residual sugar. A nice wine for a hot summer's day.
July 1, 2022 - Zinging fresh excellent depth of fruit. Hint of sweetness fills the middle palate . Finish could be cleaner
April 22, 2022 - Primary notes of lime rind, lime leaf, unripe peach, wet stone & whiff of petrol. Acidity is laser-like. All in all a beautiful wine but at this stage I’m finding the fruit a bit hollow in the mid palate (& the acidity has enveloped). Dynamite aperitif wine though, esp. for the price.
August 28, 2021 - 91pts. Light on its feet like a Kabinett must be, and not really sweet, since its residual sweetness is balanced by its acidity. Playful and refreshing - the bottle was empty in absolutely no time. Good minerality as typical from this vineyard. For $10 this is absolutely a must have wine in the cellar if one enjoys the style.
January 10, 2021 - Pale lemon in colour, the nose radiates freshness and vivid floral tones of white flowers, Lillies, apple blossom and grapefruit peel. The entry is clean and bright with a tight apple-edged acidity that gives a zest and life to the wine. Linear in palate shape, the wine shows white flowers, yellow grapefruit and a touch of lime and rock dust, giving at first a strident texture, but this is quickly assuaged by a fructophilic sugar giving a glassiness and slight roundness to the mid-palate. Excellent, cool and freshening,
January 9, 2021 - Sec et franc de gout.
Constant dans sa qualité, Donnhoff
ne déçoit pas encore une fois.
Citrons, miel et fleurs.
Long et sans accroc, c`est gouleyant et sallivant.
Super bon.
February 7, 2020 - Pure deliciousness bottled under screwcap. A fair bit of spritz that needed to be shaken out a bit. Generous on the nose - white flowers, unripe peach, citrus oil. Tremendously balanced with great emergy and intensity of flavors, sharp acid melded with just the right amount of kabinett sweetness, unripe peach/apricot fruit, grapefruit pith/mineral bitterness, with a squeeze of calamansi lime. A hint of petrol lurking. More expressive than the 2018 (at this point).
August 5, 2019 - Light yellow-green, watery rim @9% abv. Well-defined riesling aromas of petrole, apple, lemon, tropical fruits rubber. Off dry-semi sweet, medium(+) acidity, low alcohol and medium body, Palate of ripe golden delicious, lychee, stone fruit, star fruit. Refined acidity balances the fruit forward attack. Focused sweetness frames the long finish with a slight lemon-pith bitterness.
Excellent!
June 14, 2019 - Fresh, racy nose of citrus and sherbet. Mouthwatering acidity perfectly balanced with the restrained sweetness. Couldn't ask for more from a summer-aperitif wine. Gorgeous.