2022 Donnhoff Oberhauser Brucke Auslese (375 ml)

"Wonderful nose of exotic fruits and flowers. More than enough concentration, but what makes this stand out is the interplay of ripeness - floral honey as much as very ripe citrus - with a vibrant acidity that lights up the sky. Dazzling, diamond-bright finish! From organically grown grapes with Fair'n Green certification. Drink or hold"

"The Oberhäuser Brücke site runs completely through. The Große Gewächs, which goes to auction and is probably the largest GG of the house. Spätlese, Auslese and GG are harvested together, only manually then selected into the individual qualities. This is almost only possible in the Brücke. The spectacularly filigree Spätlese, which is so much more prancing than the equivalent, but still quite different Hermannshöhle. And now in the Auslese, the difference becomes if anything even more pronounced. The Hermannshöhle pushes and shoves and is much more massive. It's a huge wine, but already very stout. The Brücke, on the other hand, is delicate even as an Auslese. It smells Muselan, at any rate cool and delicate. This fine site directly on the Nahe below, is totally different from Hermannshöhle. The Brücke is an outstanding sweet wine site. And where the Spätlese clearly had a Mosel nose, the Auslese from the Brücke is more Saar. It is so incredibly delicate and prancing, showing itself less punchy than the Spätlese, even more floaty. Yellow peach, ripe grapefruit, fully ripe citrus, green and yellow mango, kiwi. The wine is so deliciously juicy, you forget the sugar, you automatically focus on this sloppy, prancing fruit." Drink 2023 - 2071

"The 2022 Riesling Oberhäuser Brücke Auslese is a rarity. The dry year was not one to favor botrytis. "It was not an Auslese year, but we always have the ambition to harvest a little Auslese in these two vineyards, namely Brücke and Hermannshöhle," Helmut says. They manage to pick fruit with a little botrytis, selected relatively early. The nose seems more toned down than the Spätlese, yet underneath are glimmers of passion fruit, with its lovely greenish, tart notion and tropical overtones. The palate has the same tropical sweetness, vivid, aromatic, alluring and seductive. It's concentrated rather than colored by botrytis. Very pure, linear, pristine and exquisite. This is an elixir-like liquid on tiptoe, pirouetting, trailing tropical perfume and finishing in citrus. This is about brightness, not weight. (Sweet)" Drink 2028-2050