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Lot 1550
Estimate: $80
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"Donnhoff's 2009 Oberhauser Leistenberg Riesling Kabinett - ultra-delicate at only 9% alcohol and with considerably more overt sweetness than its Krotenpfuhl counterpart - is scented with buddleia, white peach, toasted almond, and a fusil note of crushed stone, and offers subtle creaminess, lusciously juicy refreshment, and minerally interactive persistence. This illustrates slate as a sort of sounding board as well as support structure for fruit such as one also encounters in the best residually sweet Mosel Rieslings. Donnhoff routinely expresses acute awareness of a duty to make something truly special out of the cooler 'wrong-side-of-the-river' Oberhauser vineyards that until the latter part of his father's era constituted almost the entirety of his family's acreage. That duty has here once again been deliciously discharged."
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"Donnhoff's 2009 Oberhauser Leistenberg Riesling Kabinett - ultra-delicate at only 9% alcohol and with considerably more overt sweetness than its Krotenpfuhl counterpart - is scented with buddleia, white peach, toasted almond, and a fusil note of crushed stone, and offers subtle creaminess, lusciously juicy refreshment, and minerally interactive persistence. This illustrates slate as a sort of sounding board as well as support structure for fruit such as one also encounters in the best residually sweet Mosel Rieslings. Donnhoff routinely expresses acute awareness of a duty to make something truly special out of the cooler 'wrong-side-of-the-river' Oberhauser vineyards that until the latter part of his father's era constituted almost the entirety of his family's acreage. That duty has here once again been deliciously discharged."
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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.