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The November 2016 Internet-Only Auction Part 1
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"After the brilliance of the 2011 Brücke Spätlese and Auslese, I was beginning to wonder how the sweet wines from the Hermannshöhle were going to stack up this year. Never mind! The 2011 Hermannshöhle Auslese is a legend in the making, offering up a deeper and racier rendition of the vintage. The brilliant bouquet delivers scents of glazed grapefruit, tangerine, a touch of petrol, gentle notes of fresh pineapple, honeycomb and a topnote of violets. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure and even snappier than the Brücke Auslese, with brilliant purity, a great core, flawless focus and balance and a rapier-like and endless finish. This is one of the greatest examples of Hermannshöhle Auslese I have tasted since the legendary 1998 versions. Pure magic."
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"After the brilliance of the 2011 Brücke Spätlese and Auslese, I was beginning to wonder how the sweet wines from the Hermannshöhle were going to stack up this year. Never mind! The 2011 Hermannshöhle Auslese is a legend in the making, offering up a deeper and racier rendition of the vintage. The brilliant bouquet delivers scents of glazed grapefruit, tangerine, a touch of petrol, gentle notes of fresh pineapple, honeycomb and a topnote of violets. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure and even snappier than the Brücke Auslese, with brilliant purity, a great core, flawless focus and balance and a rapier-like and endless finish. This is one of the greatest examples of Hermannshöhle Auslese I have tasted since the legendary 1998 versions. Pure magic."
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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.