Donnhoff 2024s | Arriving Mid-September | Great Scores

Weingut Dönnhoff, Nahe

Pleased to offer the last of the 2024s - both GGs and Prädikats.  Excellent reviews.  All arriving in 2 weeks...

"All in all, Dönnhoff presented a beautiful collection this year. Svelteness, lightness and expressiveness are inherent. The sweet wines, where Spätlese was the highest Prädikat achieved, are on a different plane. They are otherworldly and weightless with ethereal poise."
- Anne Krebiehl MW

2024 Donnhoff Riesling Niederhauser Hermannshohle Grosses Gewachs
• 98JS, 95-97VN, 96FS

"A masterpiece of power and elegance that has incredible lightness, yet with fantastic power in the finish. I love the delicate peach and peach blossom aromas. This carries the high acidity of the vintage beautifully, but your patience will be rewarded." - Stuart Pigott

"The 2024 Riesling Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Grosses Gewächs is from vines planted in 1949 on shale with some calcareous inclusions. Just 1,500 kg per hectare were harvested, about 8% less than usual. This is already luminous, even as barrel sample, with sumptuousness, poise and grace. A ripe lemon juice note flows and stays the course in a straight line, taking over and filling out the mouth and mind. Its exquisite ripeness is depicted in the most svelte shape with crystalline clarity. (Bone-dry)" - Anne Krebiehl MW

"Floral notes appear alongside yeasty and grapefruit notes, including black pepper, and there remains a reductive overtone. The palate structure is a work of art: supple and full-bodied motifs are closely interwoven, the acidity carries gently, in step with tactile minerality." - Ulrich Sautter

2024 Donnhoff Riesling Norheimer Dellchen Grosses Gewachs
• 98JS, 94-96VN, 95+FS

"Exceptionally refined and racy, this has terrific Amalfi lemon freshness and white peach fruit on the very focused, medium-bodied palate. Incredible drive in the super-long finish. The aromatic finesse of the wild flower, peach and Amalfi lemon nose is almost as great as the textural finesse. Incredible delicacy in the super-long finish." - SP

"The 2024 Riesling Norheimer Dellchen Grosses Gewächs was made in tiny quantities this year. It is from a porphyry site with shale cover. Flint, herb and lemon aromas come together in a most enticing combination. The palate is taut, svelte and luminous. Stony and fine, elegance runs through it like sunlight, heightening the citric freshness imbued with peppery, zesty savor. The 2024 is so linear and bright yet completely ripe. Cornellius says that they picked just 1,500 kg per hectare. (Bone-dry)" - AK

"On the nose, floral, slate-spicy and spontaneously fermented aromas stand side by side like a mosaic. The picture is also expressive on the palate: a juicy acidity gives structure, fine phenolics provide structure, the wine is still closed and almost inconspicuous, but has a lot going for it." - US

2024 Donnhoff Riesling Roxheimer Hollenpfad Im Muhlenberg Grosses Gewachs
• 96VN, 93-95VN, 95+FS

"Such an elegant wine, with sensational balance of stony minerality and very fine peachy fruit. All the flavors of the peach from white to red via yellow. Super-long and elegant finish with great finesse." - SP

"The 2024 Riesling Roxheimer Höllenpfad im Mühlberg Grosses Gewächs, from the very heart of this red Permian sandstone site, tingles with a sense of pepper on the nose. The palate is beautifully clear and luminous, only revealing tender notions of the usually herbal savor as shimmering touches of tansy and yarrow. This is like a sublimation of Riesling. It's ultra-light, ultra-bright and so deeply rooted in stone. (Bone-dry)" - AK

"An aroma of peach, passion fruit and crushed rock - typical of the vineyard in a closed form. On the palate, texture and substance are tightly interwoven, a layer of phenolics carries (and lasts a long time), the acidity is seamlessly fused with the body. Do not drink too soon!" - US

2024 Donnhoff Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Spatlese
• 99JS, 97VN, 94+FS

"This is one of the wines of the vintage in the Nahe. That starts an explosive nose of Amalfi lemons, white and yellow peaches, lychees and kiwis. Incredible concentration and vibrancy on the tightly focused, medium-bodied palate. A spring-like lightness is married to awesome density, the two so tightly wound that they’re inseparable through the almost endless finish." - SP

"The 2024 Riesling Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Spätlese, again made in small quantities due to frost, is from shale soils. Lemon and Reine Claude plum are pristine on the nose. The midpalate has a touch of crushed yellow peach flesh scented with lime. Despite its vivid slenderness and beautifully taut, measured nature, this has fill, poise and purity. (Medium)" - AK

"An archetypal slate spice meets a ripe citrus fruit: Tangerine, blood orange. In the mouth, the wine has an infinite number of dimensions: fine sweetness, silky phenols, ripe, yet carrying acidity, tactile-mineral play and mineral spice, finesse and length." - US

2024 Donnhoff Oberhauser Brucke Riesling Spatlese
• 97JS, 96VN, 93FS

"This fabulous Spatlese marries great ripeness and deep coolness. Despite its extreme youthfulness it already has amazing finesse. The stone fruit and citrus aromas are so tightly intertwined that it’s not easy to pick them apart, which says everything about the exceptional concentration for this vintage. I love the way the super-minerally acidity pushes the finish way out toward the horizon." - SP

"The 2024 Riesling Oberhäuser Brücke Spätlese is the only separately made wine from the domaine in this year of frost. Sandstone, shale, volcanic formations, loess and loam soils meet on this site that is cool at night but close to the river. Very often, this area is picked last. There was no botrytized grapes included here. The nose is all citric lift, with a beautifully pristine touch of lemon oil. The palate is smooth, rounded and framed by zest. Svelteness, tenderness and concentration unite to form a soothing vision. The finish is a lasting picture of weightless elegance. (Medium)" - AK

2024 Donnhoff Riesling Oberhauser Leistenberg Kabinett
• 95VN, 94JS, 94+

"A very cool and crisp wine with juicy white tree fruit and very racy acidity on the sleek, light-bodied palate. Very precise and filigreed finish." - SP

"The 2024 Riesling Oberhäuser Leistenberg Kabinett was grown on shale on this cool site. Its stony verve adds a touch of lemon zest on the nose. The palate is lightness itself, gently sweet but like a summer breeze carrying notions of clover. This is breezy and stony but tender on the finish. The 2024 is almost weightless. (Medium)" - AK

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