2008 Donnhoff Norheimer Kirscheck Riesling Spatlese
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Donnhoff Norheimer Kirscheck Riesling Spatlese-2008-.75-Standard-White-Germany
Donnhoff Norheimer Kirscheck Riesling Spatlese-2008-.75-Standard-White-Germany
Tasting Notes
| Terry Thiese | |
| In this humble taster's opinion, these are the greatest Rieslings on earth. No other wine, anywhere, exceeds the clarity, polish, complexity and sheer beauty of flavor of this grower's finest wines. Simply, like the most perfect Riesling that can ever be. ...its quite feline, gentle, dear, and calm. Less animated and frisky, but by no means worse! Just more lambent, tranquil. The strawberries are ripe, the basket beckons, the sun has started to warm them. | |
| Steve Tanzer's International Wine Cellar 90 | |
| Pale golden yellow with a hint of green. Subtle honeysuckle aromas blend with hyacinth and lime. Pure, polished peachy fruit with a very refined minerality drift dreamily across the palate. Finishes delicate and quite long. Joel B. Payne | |
| Wine Spectator 92 | |
| This is pure and translucent, allowing its pear, apple and stone aromas and flavors to sine. Presision balance and fine length complete the profile. | |
| Robert Parker 92 | |
| Fresh lemon, grapefruit, diverse red berries and buddleia hauntingly scent the Donnhoff 2008 Norheimer Kirschheck Riesling Spatlese and inform a palate of utmost refinement and delicacy, transparent to salt, stone, gingery spice, and floral diversity. Juicy, tart, faintly bitter suggestions of fresh pineapple add invigoration to a long, refreshing finish. This represents an unusually vivacious, incipiently complex Kirschheck with all of the seductive allure one has come to expect from this bottling. It should be fascinating to follow for 15-20 years, although it-s irresistible young. David Schildknecht |