Weingut Dönnhoff : Riesling Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Grosses Gewächs Trocken 2024

Tasting characteristics and advice for Weingut Dönnhoff’s 2024 Riesling Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Grosses Gewächs Trocken

Tasting

Nose
This wine offers a powerfully spicy and elegant bouquet, with fascinating depth and the concentrated fruit typical of Riesling.

Palate
Crystal-clear and noble, the palate is both intense and delicate, with a salty note characteristic of slate.

A German white wine combining aromatic richness and concentration

The estate

For over 250 years, Weingut Dönnhoff has tended a unique terroir of precipitous slopes along the banks of the Nahe. Vintage after vintage, Helmut Dönnhoff crafts great German wines from a mosaic of sites, expressing the complexity, purity and multiple nuances of Riesling, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris. Recognized across borders as among the greatest white wines in the world, Weingut Dönnhoff’s wines captivate with their elegance, aromatic richness, freshness and exceptional minerality that blossoms after several decades of aging.

The vineyard

Covering 25 hectares, Weingut Dönnhoff’s holdings are distinguished by a multiplicity of soils and exposures, offering ideal conditions for the grapes to achieve optimal ripeness. Farmed with meticulous care, vines aged between 20 and 70 years yield great German wines from low but very high-quality yields.

The wine

Classified VDP Grosse Lage, this Riesling Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Grosses Gewächs Trocken from Weingut Dönnhoff is a Nahe wine from a steep, south-facing vineyard that has been recognized for over a century as the finest terroir in the entire Nahe region. The vines, which can reach 75 years of age, are rooted in extremely mineral-rich soils composed of dark gray slate and volcanic elements.

Winemaking and aging

100% manual, selective harvest. Fermentation and maturation in stainless steel tanks and traditional oak casks.

Grape variety

100% Riesling.