Deep orange color - petrol, honeysuckle and orange peel on the nose. Nice balance of sweet orange and nectarine fruit with a good spine of acidity on the palate. Not the most complex Donnhoff, but paired very well with shrimp vindaloo.
I have not had any deep orange Spatlese from Donnhoff or any other producer from this millennium, although it sounds tasty, despite what I think is a surprising color. I love 2007s.
It’s had different names over the many vintages. I have Felsenturmchen or Felsenberg Spätlese up through 2015. I think that might have been the end, with it all going into dry wine production.
At the San Francisco riesling dinner, we had an '07 Neiderhauser Hermannshohle Spatlese, and it seemed a little dark (amber, not brown) and advanced. It had a caramelly, almost sherried quality to it. Photo of the wine is below: does Hermannshohle normally get this dark at 16 years of age?
I raise it because of Jud’s original note about his wine being advanced way back in '20. Not sure if this degree of evolution is normal for Hermannshohle or it may be some other issue: