Wine from Nahe

Decanter, 91 points: From the steep slopes of the middle Nahe, this bright expression of dry Riesling comes from 15- to 30-year-old vines grown on slate soils. It's an elegant wine from start to finish, with expressive and forward aromas of...

jamessuckling.com, 94 points: Welcome to a virgin forest of herbs! Tightly wound with a lot of drive and some healthy tannins, giving the finish some real structure. Serious minerality at the slightly austere finish. From organically grown grapes with...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: The 2015 Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Auslese is lovely, clear and flinty on the nose and, like the Spätlese, is characterized by its noble aristocracy, but also lemony freshness and great purity. There seems to be...

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...

jamessuckling.com, 96 points: This very concentrated Auslese demands a lot of patience if you want to expereince all its thousand nuances. Has the crstalline purity of a great Spätlese rather than the honey of a luscious Auslese, but is way too big to...

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...