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2003 Dönnhoff Norheimer Kirschheck Riesling Spätlese Nahe

2003 Dönnhoff Norheimer Kirschheck Riesling Spätlese Nahe

92RP
91WS
$49.99

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Wine Advocate

Reviewed December 2004
The 2003 Riesling Spatlese Norheimer Kirschheck was pristine. Its lovely floral, spicy aromas lead to an attractive, concentrated, deep core of red berries and minerals. Bravo to Helmut Donnhoff for this magical line-up! (PR)

Professional Reviews

91

Wine Spectator

Review Date: 03/2005
A tightly wound '03, compressing its complex peach, pineapple, grapefruit and mineral flavors into a slim frame. The firm underlying acidity keeps it defined, but it needs time to expand. Fine length. (BS)

JR

Jancis Robinson

Review Date: 06/2004
Tingly acidity. Very nerveux and racy. As though cut from a crystal, with lots and lots of pure fruit. Tastes more like an Auslese. Needs time. (JR)

Notes

From importer Terry Theise: "Kirschheck (cherry-hedge) is an unheralded Grand Cru, nearly ten hectares of which is 80% steep. The three growers I represent with parcels there all say it's slatey, but the standard reference book says: 'sandy loam on a bed of sandstone-Rotliegend.' Whatever! It tastes slatey. I've often found great affinity between these wines and Christoffel's Würzgartens; this seems to be an unusually happy vintage in Norheim! Pretty and piquant with swollen minerality and a kind of introverted power, wonderfully salty; this one perturbs nature as she moves through the world. Arresting depth of mineral; Helmut's best-ever wine from this site."

Details

OriginNahe, Germany
Type/VarietalRiesling
SKU1012898