2011 Dessert Wine

jamessuckling.com, 99 points: This wine has exceptional clarity, balance and freshness, with lots of spicy botrytis character. Full body, medium-sweet and a crisp finish. It’s racy and refined. What’s impressive is the intensity of noble rot that...

jamessuckling.com, 99 points: This wine has exceptional clarity, balance and freshness, with lots of spicy botrytis character. Full body, medium-sweet and a crisp finish. It’s racy and refined. What’s impressive is the intensity of noble rot that...

Wine Spectator, 99 points: Incredibly rich, with pineapple, persimmon, heather honey, creamed Jonagold apple and quince flavors. The lines are clearly drawn, with seamless acidity lending support and letting the finish both zip and drape at the...

Wine Spectator, 98 points: Shows fantastic range, featuring creamed Jonagold apple, papaya, toasted coconut, brioche and pineapple notes, laced with macadamia nut and heather honey details. The long, sweetened butter–filled finish shows citrus oil...

Wine Spectator, 97 points: Highly Recommended. White peach, pineapple, white ginger, orange zest and green fig notes are clear and racy, while green almond, brioche, pear and yellow apple details wait in reserve. Offers stunning range and polish...

jamessuckling.com, 95 points: There is so much botrytis spice here, with nutmeg and dried-mushroom character. Full body, medium-sweet and loads of character. Searing intensity. Great finish. Perhaps best ever from here. Hard not to drink this, but...

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...