Riesling bash at CHIKO (Chevy Chase, Maryland): Beautiful focus, plush fruit, nice balance between crushed sweet tart sugar and racy acid. Nice tangy, pithy, mineral vibes as well. Too young to really parse through in full in such a spread, but I'd love to spend time with this in five years.
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Laura said “I want some Riesling tonight” which means one thing. Grab a Dönnhoff Kirschheck from the cellar. The 2019 needs some air (starting to close down?), but after it’s open for an hour it is firing on all cylinders. Vivid acidity, fresh peach and cherry fruit (typical Kirschheck), and a sparkling finish that first highlights the Spätlese sweetness then the acidity washes it away. Brilliant!
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pale champagne color, on the nose pears, grey slate and waves of saline, peaches, on the palate a lively ripe core of fruit, white cherries and lusty saline notes leading into a long and beaming finish with pristine balance and perfectly rounded acids, this has all the pure and uncomplicated beauty of the great 2019 vintage with a particular intensity to the fruit, drinking very nicely now but just a little cellar time will- I think- yield great outcomes.
**(***), 2027-2039
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Very shy scents of honey and slate. Texture is great; more subtle flavours of peach and honey with little to no finish. We opened this before a 2017 Selbach Oster Auslese and we all concurred that hopefully this wine is just shutting down. Acid is great, sweetness is there. Just missing the “Wow” factor that Dönnhoff usually delivers. I’m giving it another 2-3 years before I check in again.
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2/25/2024 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 93 Points
Riesling bash at CHIKO (Chevy Chase, Maryland): Beautiful focus, plush fruit, nice balance between crushed sweet tart sugar and racy acid. Nice tangy, pithy, mineral vibes as well. Too young to really parse through in full in such a spread, but I'd love to spend time with this in five years.
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2/6/2024 - HU Likes this wine: 92 Points
Good wine, decent Riesling, in a good drinking window. 91 or 92? Let’s say 92.
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4/14/2023 - RayOB wrote: 92 Points
Drank at 67
Beautiful balance
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11/23/2021 - Rieslingfan wrote:
Laura said “I want some Riesling tonight” which means one thing. Grab a Dönnhoff Kirschheck from the cellar. The 2019 needs some air (starting to close down?), but after it’s open for an hour it is firing on all cylinders. Vivid acidity, fresh peach and cherry fruit (typical Kirschheck), and a sparkling finish that first highlights the Spätlese sweetness then the acidity washes it away. Brilliant!
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11/10/2021 - RayOB Likes this wine: 92 Points
Drank at 67
Incredible balance, still young. Would bring a smile to anyones face
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10/15/2021 - Orange Tsian wrote: 95 Points
一闻到香气就觉得不简单,爆炸饱满而多汁的果味,迸溅感十足,要从杯子里跳出来,菠萝等大量的热带水果、脆油桃、脆杏、橘子,在鼻腔中有相当饱满扎实的表达。白玫瑰领衔的花香穿插其中,还有这啤酒花和些许啤酒味,通体明亮,还有着奶油的润滑,些许细矿和一点石灰收尾。入口具有侵略性,结构大,集中度高,酸度高企,融合在酒液中,拉伸出一道道线条。果味和嗅觉差不多,也是桃子、菠萝热带果和橘子等,有点精酿啤酒的麦芽和酒花香,中后段出现了柑橘调的紧致感,抓力不错,收尾矿物感精致平滑,像是金属的回音。95/100
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10/2/2021 - Elpaninaro Likes this wine:
pale champagne color, on the nose pears, grey slate and waves of saline, peaches, on the palate a lively ripe core of fruit, white cherries and lusty saline notes leading into a long and beaming finish with pristine balance and perfectly rounded acids, this has all the pure and uncomplicated beauty of the great 2019 vintage with a particular intensity to the fruit, drinking very nicely now but just a little cellar time will- I think- yield great outcomes.
**(***), 2027-2039
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5/17/2021 - WEB,III Likes this wine: 93 Points
Riesling with Cherry inflections is wine psychedelia.
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4/11/2021 - Order66 wrote: 83 Points
Very shy scents of honey and slate. Texture is great; more subtle flavours of peach and honey with little to no finish. We opened this before a 2017 Selbach Oster Auslese and we all concurred that hopefully this wine is just shutting down. Acid is great, sweetness is there. Just missing the “Wow” factor that Dönnhoff usually delivers. I’m giving it another 2-3 years before I check in again.
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