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The Tonshiefer bottling of Trocken is a dynamite dry Riesling that is sourced from the Leistenberg vineyard in Oberhausen in its entirety this year, and it is a terrific bottle in the making. The wine weighs in at 11.5 percent alcohol (again all natural- no chapitalization for the dry wines this year at Weingut Donnhoff), and offers up a superb nose of grapefruit, fresh oranges, a very complex base of slate and a pungent topnote of orange blossoms. On the palate the wine is medium-bodied, crisp and nascently complex,
with a lithesome, dancing filigree, a lovely core and excellent length and grip on the beautifully balanced finish. I would give this fine bottle a couple of years in the cellar to
allow its secondary layers to emerge. High class juice and again a terrific value. 2011-2025. 89+."Martin Gillman
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