Dessert Wine from Nahe

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 92 points: The 2014 Riesling Trocken Vulkangestein is sourced from younger (30- to 40-year-old) plots of the grands crus Stromberg and Felsenberg; the grapes were both picked a week earlier than the Grosses Gewächs Rieslings. The...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 94 points: Bright and crisp on the nose, with candied peach, lemon oil and acacia honey aromas complemented by a whiff of brown spice botrytis. The lusciously sweet tropical flavors maintain a remarkable delicacy in spite of the...

jamessuckling.com, 100 points: Some truths are hard to believe and this is one of them; it won’t let you go, so there's no way of denying the excellence of this filigree masterpiece. Almost endless finish that simply could not contain any more mineral...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 92 points: ”‘You with your (expletive) Eiswein!’ Gabi told me when we left these grapes hanging,” relates Donnhoff, and in fact his 2011 Oberhauser Brucke Riesling Eiswein was another of those that threatened to disrupt the...

View From The Cellar, 96 points: The Dönnhoff family picked two small lots of Eiswein this year, one on the 9th of December and the other on the 13th, and Helmut Dönnhoff decided that they would be better blended together to make one bottling, rather...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 points: Picked in 2016 on January 18th, the 2015 Oberhäuser Brücke Riesling Eiswein is very clear and displays black bread, fresh lemon and even some flinty aromas on the nose. On the palate, this is a highly elegant, precise and...

Jancis Robinson's Purple Pages, 95 points: (18.5/20) Although botrytis made itself scarce in 2016, the Hermannshöhle Auslese still manages an incredible concentration of luscious, sweet aromas ranging from exotic fruit to fresh raisins and waxy honey. The palate...

View From The Cellar, 94 points: The 2015 Hermannshöhle Goldkapsel Auslese is also a stunning wine in the making, but at least at this early stage, it does not seem to have quite the same completeness of its Brücke counterpart. The bouquet is pure...

View From The Cellar, 98 points: 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...