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Lot 1549
Estimate: $35
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'Pear drops, white peach, distilled herbal essences, and honeysuckle are the leading aromas of the 2004 Norheimer Dellchen Riesling Spatlese A.P. #11, which goes on to offer ravishing, positively heady inner-mouth aromas of a similar sort. Possessed of the sort of elegant wafting delicacy as well as multi-layered depth of its Kirschheck counterpart, this offers a bath-like (or is it atmospheric?) finish of crystalline clarity and subtle floral, herbal, nut oil and orchard fruit complexity. The experience of drinking this is how I imagine weightlessness. Astonishingly, given how little better any Riesling Spatlese could get than this, those from more notorious sites â including the two that have made Donnhoffâs reputation (and vice versa) â are yet to come! He has certainly achieved his goal of offering a gustatory tour-in-the-glass of the middle Nahe that reveals regrettably little known sites of greatness."
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'Pear drops, white peach, distilled herbal essences, and honeysuckle are the leading aromas of the 2004 Norheimer Dellchen Riesling Spatlese A.P. #11, which goes on to offer ravishing, positively heady inner-mouth aromas of a similar sort. Possessed of the sort of elegant wafting delicacy as well as multi-layered depth of its Kirschheck counterpart, this offers a bath-like (or is it atmospheric?) finish of crystalline clarity and subtle floral, herbal, nut oil and orchard fruit complexity. The experience of drinking this is how I imagine weightlessness. Astonishingly, given how little better any Riesling Spatlese could get than this, those from more notorious sites â including the two that have made Donnhoffâs reputation (and vice versa) â are yet to come! He has certainly achieved his goal of offering a gustatory tour-in-the-glass of the middle Nahe that reveals regrettably little known sites of greatness."
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The spiritual home of Riesling, producing wines of piercing acidity, precision and longevity across a spectrum from bone-dry to lusciously sweet. Cool, steep-sloped vineyards along the Mosel and Rhine yield some of the world's most delicate, long-lived whites.
A highly aromatic white of piercing acidity and transparency to terroir, ranging from bone-dry to lusciously sweet. It ages remarkably and is the noble grape of Germany and Alsace.