1998 Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Spätlese

View From the Cellar

• By John Gilman
  Jan/Feb 2014, Issue #49, Recently Tasted German, Austrian and Alsace Wines: A Range of Rieslings (and Friends) from Dry to Dessert

  (Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Spätlese- Weingut Dönnhoff) Login and sign up and see review text.

• By John Gilman
  Jul/Aug 2006, Issue #4, The Beautiful Wines of Hermann Dönnhoff

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• By David Schildknecht
  January/February 2000, IWC Issue #88, (See more on Vinous...)

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Rockss and Fruit

• By Lyle Fass
  1/4/2008, (See more on Rockss and Fruit...)

  (Donnhoff Niederhauser Hermannshohle Spatlese) This was its usual astonishing self. Very tight out of the gates but with that classic Hermannshohle minerality and almost red-like fruit quality on the nose. The palate was sheer perfection. Constructed so perfectly with such unbelievable finesse you could not believe a liquid could attain such levels of profundity and seamless perfection. I just had the Kupfergrube 1998 and it had the same amount of profundity but was just not elegant as Hermannshohle. Hermannshohle is all about perfect form. Like a diver doing a perfect swan dive off a cliff. The wine was half way to maturity as the color was a light gold. Usually this has an almost water-like color during its youth. It improved greatly on day 2 and gained in body and richness and the pillow-like tetxure I so often find inDonnhoff was even more prominent. A perfect bottle of Riesling if I have ever had one.

• By Lyle Fass
  6/6/2007, (See more on Rockss and Fruit...)

  (Donnhoff Niederhauser Hermannshohle Spatlese) The Hermannshohle was smoking. Such purity, intensity and complexity on the nose with just some hints of secondary with petrol and pie notes. The wine was closed on the palate but did flesh out tremendously after aeration but the innate beauty of this wine was there for all to see.