Donnhoff, Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel, Nahe

Wow! Just wow! I have opened bottles of this periodically over the last several years, and this one is hitting at a level even higher than the best I have previously opened. Brilliant apricot, and golden flower honey, with a dash of citrus zest, and a finishing jolt from a lightning bolt, creates a near perfect combination that could only be improved by coming in a full rather than half bottle. Truly stunning Auslese.

2001 vintage

Pretty shut down, maybe an off bottle or just opened way too soon. Updated 2/1/26 to add: This lasted an entire month of dry January with one glass gone in the wine fridge, and it really is showing the right notes now. If you don't have the patience for a 30 day slow-ox, this is one to hold for another few decades.

2017 vintage

Last of 8 halves, some taint stripping fruit slightly, drinkable but way off previous bottles last in 21 rated VF+ ie 19 or 97), this one certainly F (17.5) but on downward trajectory.

2001 vintage

From 750mL bottle. Wonderful pale-golden colour. Aromas of quince, peach, floral perfumes, honey and a light touch of some herbal notes in the background. On the palate the wine is still on the young and fresh side. Nice and crisp fruit, lime and citrus notes, green apple, botrytis notes and nice sweetness along with crisp acidity. There is also a nice subtle butteriness in the mouthfeel and taste which is really nice

2017 vintage

2017 Donnhoff Overhauser Brucke Auslese Green apple, pineapple, lime, lemon with honey and a lovely acidic balance of grapefruit and pineapple. Nice honeysuckle.

2017 vintage

In a good spot, but very young. Has opened up somewhat, but still dominated by green and white floral notes, ripe citrus and apples. Can probably keep for very very long.

2017 vintage

A powerfull and dark auslese On the nose it has: pepper, grapefruit, petrol, medicine, smoke, botrytis, wax, orange peel. It has lots of fruit and is drinking well, this will hold for some time, but can’t see it evolve further.

2015 vintage

Terrific. Golden apples, hints of stonefruit, faint floral aromatics. Exactly as sweet as you expect and exactly as much refreshing acidity as you hope for. Yeah, it’s a sweet white but nevertheless delivers on both the quality and crowd-pleaser dimensions.

2017 vintage

Med gold, petrol and honey on the nose. Palate very high acid very rich honey and stone fruit, density, ectremely long finish. Outstanding and will improve further .

2015 vintage

Exquisite nectar

2001 vintage

Mild and sweet apples, pleasant and elegant acidity. A very harmonious and fresh pleaser with good complexity and finesse.

2019 vintage

Three years ago I opened a bottle of this, and compared it to a peach upside-down cake. It had all those fruit and sweet tones that made it just luscious. This bottle, which my wife and I carefully parceled out after dinner for two evenings was so much more. The baseline descriptors did not change much, but this bottle had an extra dimension where it switched to high definition, with each element enhanced and brightened - more freshness and a …

2001 vintage

It was a mistake to open this right now. Seemingly in a muted phase, this was ungiving and one-dimensional. Hold.

2017 vintage

Monthly Tuesday group The Dead Sparrow; Dinner at "A lot of taste" in Delft, Netherlands. (By RW) : No notes taken this time. Drank from a 75 cl. bottle. See also my note from 7/29/2020. Beautiful balance between acidity and sweetness and still very youthful.

2019 vintage

Jersey Boys (Grand Sichuan, Jersey City, NJ) : Classic Donnhoff nose - sweet and creamy complex peachy and spicy. Great perfume. Palate is plush and very sweet. Great fruit and spice. Not electric but sneaky acid inthe back they keeps it light. Super creamy and excellent into the finish. Peachy and melon? I’m not a huge Donnhoff fan but for me the verve of 2017 helps make it work. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 5.5/6, Finish - 5/6, Je ne …

2017 vintage

Grand Sichuan, Jersey City edition (Grand Sichuan, Grove St.) : Quite the contrast to the Grünhäus that preceded it - whereas that was all crackling electricity and vibrancy, this is a gentler, quieter wine. Beautiful aromatics - riper peach and white cherry mixed with tarter lime and pear fruit, and gentle floral and honeyed accents. The palate is very similar, dominated by the youthful fruit with a mineral undercurrent that becomes more apparent on the back end. Lovely wine, the …

2017 vintage

Straw with a golden hue. Perfectly stored since release. Multidimensional and complex nose of yellow and tropical fruits, peaches, lime and other citrus fruits, spices, minerality. On the palate showing grip, but without any bitterness, great intensity of scents and flavors. Long fruity finish. Yet light on its feet. It has shed some of its sweetness yet, at least it is not sweet enough as a dessert wine now. In ten or so more years it is going to seem …

2004 vintage

#19-99, 8.5% abv. From half-bottle. A fair bit different from the 1999 last night; this is far more opulent with a much larger expression of ripe fruit and overt sweetness. It's still balanced, but the sugar here gives this more weight and thickness on the palate, and the acidity, while present, doesn't have quite the same effect as in the 1999. Nonetheless, there is nothing cloying about this -- not for a moment -- but it is a far fuller-bodied, …

1998 vintage

From 750. Relative to some other vintages of this wine, the 2004 is not quite as aromatically complex, at least at the moment. There is good Nahe character of white cherry, tangerine, and mineral, but it doesn't quite draw one in the way this wine can. It really shines on the palate and finish though. It's closer to a Spätlese in weight than a dessert wine, but has a gentle, relaxed fruit quality that is very appealing, with a bright …

2004 vintage

Frisk duft av urter og noe mineralsk. Frisk i munnen, fremstår ikke heldig søt for en auslese. Honningtoner i ettersmaken.

2017 vintage

Wonderful. Very dense and long. Perfect balance of sweetness and acidity. Makes you want to hold on to it for the whole evening.

2019 vintage

Nokså stum på duft. Herlig frisk k munnen med klar, rein frukt uten botrytis.Pære og drue. Snadder! Relativt kort i ettersmaken og ikke veldig kompleks på dette stadiet, men deilig likevel.

2017 vintage

surprisingly delicate wine with quite a gentle sweetness - lovely and very easy drinking

2004 vintage

[Pop and pour.] A sweet floral nose explodes from the glass. This is a gorgeous sweet wine with perfect balance and harmony. Complex, with a long finish of peaches, apricots, and kumquats.

2001 vintage

From half bottle. This is in a wonderful place right now where the fruit's still remarkably fresh and vibrant, but it's also showing an array of more savoury smoky and creamy development. So much complexity and depth here, and impeccable balance with those vibrant '01 acids balancing the richness and sweetness perfectly. Even though this bottle had a frail cork and showed some light signs of seepage, there's lots of time ahead.

2001 vintage

Bellissimo naso. Aspettate ad aprirla per almeno 3-4 anni.

2019 vintage

First of all, please see the photo I uploaded to CellarTracker. This wine is not a “Goldkapsel” bottling. I purchased this on release through the Skurnik DI offering, and it has a white capsule. That’s because prior to 2006* the Dönnhoff Auslesen not from Brücke and Hermannshöhle had white capsules. Anyway, the wine is in perfect form now, almost 20 years from the vintage. Lightly honeyed, and still in full possession of fresh, peachy fruit, it’s moderate in density, and …

2004 vintage

Singing straight from the bottle. Mango, pineapple, dried apricot, peaches, enough sugar to manage a moderately sweet dessert, lovely acidity still. This is a great example of perfect auslese.

2001 vintage

Lighter and fresher, bright and focused, even if open for days.

1998 vintage

Rich apricot and pear with acidity and balance

2015 vintage

Spicy expressive concentrated lime acid. Core of lime acid. Sweet, unctuous and dense but that core of lime acid is beautiful. Then at the very end of turns into orange marmalade. Really nice. 95

2019 vintage

Creamy, toasty nose - almost champagne like? Slightly herbaceous, brambly fruit - gooseberries? More minerality and less sweetness than the Oberhauser (which overall I preferred). Some flintiness. Less acidity too but still well balanced.

2017 vintage

From 375. Superb. Wonderful precision. Beautiful depth. Couldn't help but finish the bottle although I was alone. Every sip is nearly perfect.

2019 vintage

A knockout nose of green apple, rose, something I can only call rain-soaked leaves, lemon, apricot. Palate at this point has not quite come together - quince, Meyer lemon, baked apple, a fantastic salinity and granite minerality that emerges very precisely in mid palate and zings all the way to the back, a beautifully clean finish. Strong acidic line that gets more complete with air lending a riveting spine to the whole thing. Whatever slight ungainliness this has now - …

2017 vintage

Drinking wonderfully with great tension between the sweetness and beautiful acidity. Stone fruit, spice, and minerality. Top notch GKA.

2017 vintage

香气新鲜轻盈，有着蜜饯或糖渍水果、柚子、葡萄柚、芒果、熟白桃和一些热带果味，比较清新可人，中段开始有着百花蜜和些许小白花香，整体比较圆润绵软，但也有新鲜的汁水感，周遭还有些新鲜薄荷的清凉感。口感比较宽阔，结构不错，凝聚和重量感略欠，但也有柔和感，酸度高，潜行酒中，通体微咸，慢慢在喝完之后才显露出存在感，整支酒、尤其是后段，具有柑橘类风味带来的口腔收缩感，后段带酥麻感。果味多白桃、白杏、柚子、葡萄柚、糖渍水果和一些番石榴、菠萝之类的热带果味，还有蜂蜜、些许金银花或是白蔷薇之类的花香，一丝妩媚，以及矿物感，收尾较长，有比较明显的蜜饯柑橘皮味。第二天，果味变得深色了些，有着成熟橘子、黄桃、黄杏和苹果酱之类的味道，饱满度不错，还有麦芽糖、花蜜和湿润的石头的质感。口感上更加甜了些，果味很成熟，有重量感也有轻盈度，但是感觉还不够扎实。93/100

2019 vintage

Golden color and rich honeyed nose. So luscious to drink, shows some maturity but is holding up great and has plenty of acidity to carry on for years.

2001 vintage

Truly amazing mixture of sweet, fruit, and acidity.

2001 vintage

#17-05, 7.5% abv. From half-bottle. Side-by-side with the 2003 and 2005, the vintage character is again starkly clear. This is a much cooler, more minerally expression of this wine. It's somewhat demure on the nose, with herbal notes and fruit that clearly isn't quite as ripe as the surrounding vintages. That same character persists on the palate, with some malic, green apple flavours here. The texture is nevertheless lovely and rounded all the same. More Mosel-like than the others.

2004 vintage

7th of 8 halves, pnp, perfect cork and level, as bottle noted in August, maybe fresher and with more upside. VF+ (19).

2001 vintage

This was really nice, paired with chicken cordon bleu and crab claws. Petrol nose, sweet entry, and then a clean finish. Enjoyable now, but likely to improve over the coming years.

2015 vintage

Patio happy hour for the first weekday of our staycation, and what a way to start! Ripe peach, a dash of brown sugar and a cherry on top, it’s a peach upside down cake. Swish it around and there’s more spice, and the fruit gets more tropical. It’s never goes full pineapple/lychee as other bottles have, but this one had a really good cork, and no seepage issues, so perhaps staying a bit fresher, even at 20 years of age. …

2001 vintage

Half bottle. Stone and tropical fruit aromas. Palate is still plenty sweet as this has a dessert wine profile for my palate. Good spice and balancing acidity. On point with summer peach pie and ice cream.

2004 vintage

6th of 8 halves, pnp, perfect cork and level, back on top form, fresh, very complex and youthful if with little obvious upside. VF+ (19).

2001 vintage

Nose: The nose is clearly youthful, but with so much depth and poise as it fills the glass with white peaches, ginger, pears, green apples, mineral tones, saline, quince, lemon drop, crushed rocks, acacia flowers, and nectarines. Taste: The feel is Light bodied and racy, high acidity. The acidity is there to let you know this has some youth, but it is all about this deep and silky feel that is backed up by tones of white peaches, pears, green …

2017 vintage

Jewel, like beautifully cut diamond. Impeccable balance, tension, harmony, and gentle power. Soft yet full of young energy. Not overly sweet, went fantastic with strawberry and rhubarb based desert. You can get lost in the aromatics of this wine. Superb!

2017 vintage

This .375 had leaked and the bottle required some cleaning once the foil was peeled back. Fill looked pretty normal so I figured it was slightly overfilled, wasn't worried as I have had sound Donnhoff leakers before. Color was correct, even a bit light for a 17 year old. This one was delicious, lots of energy to the lime, pineapple, green apple profile and energetic without being overly acidic. So easy to drink, and this held up without decline over …

2004 vintage

Method: 47 degrees; Grassl Mineralite Look: pale straw; didn't see any legs Nose: ripe guava, honey, botrytis spice, white peach Palate: guava, peach, honey, candied ginger, honeysuckle, salt; medium finish of ginger, minerality, and salt; medium+ sweetness; medium+ body; high acidity; no heat Overall thoughts: Great balance. Sweet but lively. Very tasty. Clearly young, but there's a lot of potential here (and it's already very enjoyable).

2019 vintage

Textured, saline, with superb precision, understated power, candied citrus and a long mouthwatering finish. Thrilling!!

2019 vintage

ap 20/16, 8%

2015 vintage

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