The 2016 Barde-Haut is a racy, voluptuous beauty...loaded with class and personality. The 2016 is easily one of the best recent versions of Barde-Haut I can remember tasting. It is fabulously beautiful.
Entirely fermented in oak, the 2016 Nahe Riesling Münsterer Rheinberg Kabinett is a bit reductive on the nose. On the palate, this is a really piquant and racy Kabinett with a straight character.
An intense mix of powerful acidity and ripe fruit flavors mark this crunchy, minerally, textured Riesling, featuring flavors of lemon curd, honeyed apple and sweetened chamomile tea, finishing with a streak of Christmas spice. Drink now through 2032.
The 2023 Riesling Oberhäuser Leistenberg Kabinett is from a southeast-facing site of shale, getting the morning sun; this is never aected by botrytis and is shaded in the afternoon, so a late harvest is possible because botrytis never occurs, and acids ...
The 2023 Riesling Schlossböckelheimer Felsenberg Felsentürmchen Grosses Gewächs is picked in the fully south-facing site of porphyry and melaphyr. Cornelius Dönnhoff says this is the most challenging site to work, simply because the stones are so hard ...
At least since the magical 2020 vintage, this grand cru is becoming another Dönnhoff (and Nahe) icon wine next to the estate's Hermannshöhle GG. The 2023 Norheimer Dellchen Riesling trocken GG is bright and clear on the elegant and finely juicy as well as...
From the southeast-facing part of the vineyard, the 2021 Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Spätlese is very clear, pure and flinty on the concentrated nose. Sweet, refined and very elegant on the palate, this is a weightless, saline and filigreed, playf...
Pure, precise and bright on the nose, with delicately flinty and spicy aromas, the 2021 Oberhäuser Brücke Riesling Spätlese is a fabulously piquant and stimulating Spätlese with mineral intensity, complexity, grip and tension, as if there were electric wi...