ust bottled with 10% stated alcohol, the off-dry 2024 Riesling VDP.Gutswein opens with an irresistible bright and aromatic as well as flinty/mineral nose with notes of crushed rocks and ripe yellow stone fruits (plums, apricots). Round, lush and lively on the palate due to the carbon dioxide fermentation byproduct, this is a pleasant, mood-lifting Nahe Riesling with remarkable lightness and finesse and super charming, textural fruit. This elegantly crafted, wonderfully pure and savory Riesling soars across the palate with loads of flower-laden minerals. It's a gorgeous aperitif and quaffable wine at any time of the day. Tasted in April 2025. If, as a winegrower, 90% of your potential harvest is robbed by frost early in the year, you have to rely on the solidarity of colleagues who have been hit less hard or not at all. This was the case a year ago when Cornelius Dönnhoff had to lament the loss of his best vineyards (Hermannshöhle, Felsenberg, Dellchen) at the annual Mainz Weinboerse of the VDP. Philipp Wittmann (Rheinhessen) and later also Nicola Libelli (Weingut Dr. Bürklin-Wolf, Pfalz) spontaneously offered to provide their colleague with grapes next autumn. They would cultivate the vineyards—in the Kirchspiel and Steingrube "Grosse“ also "Erste Lage“ in Westhofen (Rheinhessen) and in the Gerümpel and Rechbächel premiers crus in Wachenheim (Pfalz)—according to their (biodynamic) system, and Dönnhoff would then take over from the harvest onward.(SR)

The 2024 Riesling is exactly the same as the Riesling trocken, just with stopped fermentation. A citrus-framed touch of peach shines on the nose and carries right onto the palate. This is lightness, verve, ease and joy all wrapped into stoniness. Wonderful. (Off-dry)(AK)