
2004 Dönnhoff Niederhauser Hermannshöhle Riesling Spätlese Nahe
96
Wine Advocate
Review Date: 10/2005The 2004 Neiderhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Spatlese A.P. #10 displays a positively supernal aroma, combining distilled strength berries, herbs and pit fruits with mysteriously carnal and pungently mineral suggestions. Rich, dense and meaty, plush and creamy in texture, yet bright, animated and rivetingly complex on the palate, this wine offers a bonus of beautifully integrated, exotically spicy, estrous notes of botrytis. (The botrytis berries in the Brucke were picked out to inform Auslesen not so here.) The nearly endless reverberating finish reminds me of the complexity of overtones produced when a second set of hands depresses ten additional keys while you strike a full chord on the piano. On reflection, I was amazed to realize that no wine had so far surpassed a Spatlese from Norheimer Dellchen. But I was even more amazed to be offered at this point yet another wine of the same name! (DS)
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95
Vinous
Review Date: 02/2015
94
John Gilman
Review Date: 07/2006
92
Wine Spectator
Review Date: 03/2006
Notes
92 points Jean Fisch and David Rayer for Mosel Fine Wines: "This offers a pure and floral nose, with notes of pineapple cream, vanilla and peach kernel. Honeyed flavors of fruits make this very fine and elegant wine silky and creamy on the palate. The finish is long and juicy. This is a superb Spätlese." (04/2014)
Product Details
Origin: Nahe, Germany
Type/Varietal: Riesling
SKU: #1019313

