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The September 2020 Auction: Part 4
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Estimate: $35
Very lightly scuffed, cut capsule.
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"Sporting a gravel syrup-laden nose, the 2002 Riesling Spatlese Norheimer Kirschheck is broad, ample, plush, and a hedonistâs delight. Hugely rich, fat, and pure, it bastes the palate with slate-immersed black cherries. All Hail the King of Spatlese! Donnhoffâs line-up of Spatlesen is second to none. For the second year in a row, Helmut Donnhoff has left me shaking my head in wonder. Having tasted the greatest wines in the world, year in and year out, as a wine merchant and as a critic, did not prepare me for the awe-inspiring experience of tasting through Donnhoffâs 2001s and 2002s. They are magical, emotional, breath-taking. My words cannot do them justice."
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"Sporting a gravel syrup-laden nose, the 2002 Riesling Spatlese Norheimer Kirschheck is broad, ample, plush, and a hedonistâs delight. Hugely rich, fat, and pure, it bastes the palate with slate-immersed black cherries. All Hail the King of Spatlese! Donnhoffâs line-up of Spatlesen is second to none. For the second year in a row, Helmut Donnhoff has left me shaking my head in wonder. Having tasted the greatest wines in the world, year in and year out, as a wine merchant and as a critic, did not prepare me for the awe-inspiring experience of tasting through Donnhoffâs 2001s and 2002s. They are magical, emotional, breath-taking. My words cannot do them justice."
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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.