Dönnhoff

Oberhäuser Brücke, Riesling, BA, 2019

Name: Oberhäuser Brücke, Riesling, BA
Brand: Dönnhoff
Price: 632.42 GBP

98+/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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2019
3x37.5cl
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£632.42

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Lusciously sweet and aristocratic, with a generous spread of marmalade and white chocolate, clove, figs and honey it envelops the senses. Plush and yet concentrated it will outlive all of us. A very small part of the vineyard was not harvested in the normal timeframe, in the hope of an Eiswein. In the end, this was not possible, so they opted to pick two days before Christmas and use an old wooden basket press to process the grapes. It was fermented in stainless steel and was bottled as a fine Beerenauslese at 7% ABV.

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

98+/100

Stephan Reinhardt,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2019 Riesling Beerenauslese Oberhauser Brucke is intense, clear and concentrated on the fine and pure nose, displaying a nutty aroma in the beginning. Rich, intense and concentrated on the palate, this BA is very sweet and oily textured but also highly refined and crystalline, with a long, stimulatingly salty, piquant and tensioned finish. It is very digestible already today, but again, the best is yet to come. I suppose the 2019 is even finer than the already world-class 2018, which I had almost a year ago. Tasted in May 2020 (AP 2020).

drinking window 2035 - 2080

date of review 08/2020

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