2018 Donnhoff Oberhauser Brucke Riesling Auslese 375ml [JS97][WA96][JG95][WS93]

Producer: Donnhoff  
Region: Nahe, Germany
Varietal: Riesling  
Year: 2018 

James Suckling, 97 Points 

"This is a very contrastive sweet wine with sliced melon, white peaches and honey. Dried fruit. Full-bodied yet compact and tight, giving it an agile tension. Fresh and energetic acidity. Salted caramel aftertaste. Great wine. One for the cellar. 1,200 bottles. Drink now or hold." 

Wine Advocate, 96 Points 

"The 2018 Oberhäuser Brücke Riesling Auslese is perfectly clear and fresh but still intense and concentrated on the spicy and complex nose. Lush and piquant on the palate, this is a fresh, stunningly pure and playful Brücke that is singing and dancing on the knife's edge. Fabulous in its purity, tension and finesse. Nevertheless, there is the ripeness you can expect from an Auslese." 

John Gilman, 95 Points 

"For several decades, Helmut Dönnhoff has been of the opinion that an Auslese is a wine that needs botrytis and every example here has been a botrytized wine, at least to some degree. So, it is a great rarity to find not one, but two completely clean Auslesen in the family’s cellars this year made from golden and shriveled berries and no noble rot. The 2018 Brücke Auslese is a beautiful wine in the making, offering up a lovely aromatic constellation of pear, white cherries, honeycomb, bee pollen, apple blossoms and a lovely foundation of salty, slate minerality. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and nascently complex, with a lovely core, great focus and grip, snappy acids and a very long, dancing and still quite youthful finish. (Drink between 2030-2090)" 

Wine Spectator, 93 Points

"Lime pâte de fruit, lanolin, dried apple and slate notes gather steam as this white evolves, showing tension between the powerful acidity and flavors fueled by sweetness. May be too intense now, so wait several years for all of the elements to blend. Best from 2024 through 2037." 

Alcohol: 7.5% 

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