Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle, Riesling, Auslese
Dönnhoff

Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle, Riesling, Auslese


Destination

vintage


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1997
37.5cl
DP
£48.00


Dönnhoff, Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle, Riesling, Auslese

1997

Tasting Notes


Maturity:
Keep/Drink

ABV:
8 %

Critics score


Source:
David Schildknecht, Vinous

Date:
01/1999

Notes
Tiny‑berry concentration in the nose: redcurrant, quince, baked apple and white raisin. Richly, thickly concentrated but with lots of lift. Dusty, tactile sense of stony underlying minerals. Brings back some of the lovely nuttiness of the Hermannshöhle Spätlese Trocken along with honey and quince.

specifications

country:
Germany

region:
Nahe

Appellation:

Producer:
Dönnhoff

style:

Grape Variety:

Allergen Information:
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Dönnhoff

Dönnhoff

The Dönnhoff family bought a modest estate in the Nahe in the 1750s. In 1971 current owner, Helmut Dönnhoff produced his first vintage and has not looked back since. A regular on the shortlist of ‘German Winemaker of the Year’ and actual winner in 1999, Helmut’s work is helping the Nahe to take a share of the plaudits showered on the more internationally renowned German wine regions of the Mosel and the Rheingau. His cool, calm demeanour is a stark contrast to the demonic fervour with which he tends his vineyards. Only the best hand-picked fruit will do, in order to produce wines that are honest refl ections of the Riesling grape and the terroir its planted in whether it be the volcanic soils of the Kupfergrube (copper mine), the deep, cool Brücke, the slate/sandstone Hermanshöhle or the slate of the Leistenberg. Fermentation is in the traditional large old wooden casks and there is a light filtration before bottling. Some of Germany’s most intense, bewitching and mouthwatering wines, that mixes Rheingau body with Mosel minerality.

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