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GDH-180 2005 Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Spätlese +++
Very deep cherry-tobacco fragrances; once again there is the clearest, tenderest explanation
of this whole gorgeous dialectic — cherry, lime, maple, smoke, apple-skin, wintergreen;
has the cat-claws and also the soft fur; as murmury as otters but then suddenly
as springy as a gazelle.
SOS: 2 (9-27 years) AVAILABLE IN MAGNUMS: PLEASE INQUIRE
GDH-181H 2005 Schlossböckelheimer Felsenberg Riesling Auslese, 12/375ml ++
Less a leap to another level than a widening and deepening of the Spät. Botrytis brings
an iris note, but it extends the minerality and lengthens the string of nuances; it’s firmer,
more determined, but not sweeter.
SOMMELIER ALERT! SOS: 2 (12-32 years) AVAILABLE IN MAGNUMS: PLEASE
INQUIRE.
GDH-182H 2005 Oberhäuser Brücke Riesling Auslese, 12/375ml +++
Juicier, more explicitly flavory and brilliant; more thrilling than the Spät, and a perfect
genially playful flinging together of all possible elements. It’s also not “dessert-wine”
sweet. I realize this note isn’t as rapturous as the three plusses would suggest. THEY
are true, and I was wrung out!
SOS: 2 (15-40 years) AVAILABLE IN MAGNUMS; PLEASE INQUIRE
GDH-183H2005 Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Auslese, 12/375ml +++
Almost a savagely beautiful nose; this is the wine equivalent of a tantric orgasm. At this
point nothing more need be (or can be) delineated — you are slammed into a wall of
bliss, and nothing ever prepared you to be so happy.
SOS: 3 (13-37 years) AVAILABLE IN MAGNUMS: PLEASE INQUIRE.
FINAL NOTE: there are three TBAs (Dellchen, Brücke, Hermannshöhle) I hope to taste
in June when (maybe) they’ll actually have become wine. They’re destined for auction
but maybe one critter will be spared for we whose incomes fall short of the Buffets’ and
Soros’. If we get any I’ll let you know.
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