Oberhäuser Leistenberg, Riesling, Kabinett
Dönnhoff

Oberhäuser Leistenberg, Riesling, Kabinett


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2022
6x75cl
DP
£133.08


Dönnhoff, Oberhäuser Leistenberg, Riesling, Kabinett, 2022

2022

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Dönnhoff, Oberhäuser Leistenberg, Riesling, Kabinett, 2022

A sweeter-styled Kabinett of great vitality, yielding a pool of blue fruits, cherries and yellow plums, so easy to like and enjoy from the get-go, though the quality of the site also provides plenty of potential for the future. A southeast facing site on 30-40% gradient, the soils are primarily weathered grey slate.

ABV:
8.5%
92/100
Anne Krebiehl, Vinous

The 2022 Riesling Oberhäuser Leistenberg Kabinett beckons with a white peach hint on the nose. The palate is serene, edging its peachiness with lemon fruit and zest, tingling with stone and coating the mouth with an astringent, delicious acidity. This lovely high-wire act juxtaposes 9+ g/l of acidity with full-fruited, citric sweetness. The sinuses almost short-circuit between acidity and fruit. Helmut says, "I would never have thought in that summer that this would work. I never expected this." This is the benefit of this lateral valley and its east-exposition. To him, Kabinett is a "particular talent" of this vineyard. The 2022 is simply lovely, balanced, vivid and delicious. (Medium)
Date Reviewed:
09/2023

specifications

country:
Germany

region:
Nahe

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Dönnhoff

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Allergen Information:
This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.


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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