{"id":4465,"date":"2021-08-30T09:39:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T01:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terroirsense.com\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2021-09-05T14:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T06:36:10","slug":"wines-of-the-week-sottimano-donnhoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terroirsense.com\/zh\/p\/4465.html","title":{"rendered":"(English) Wines of the Week: Sottimano & D\u00f6nnhoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sottimano 2018 Barbaresco Basarin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 94<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sottimano first made a Barbaresco from the Basarin cru in 2015. He bought his holdings in this prestigious area in 2001, 2013, 2015 and most recently 2018, when he added . outh-west facing at the border of Neive and Treiso (but belonging to the commune of Neive), the Basarin cru is situated at a relatively high altitude and its wines are consequently usually more lifted and lighter on their feet but also less tactile and rich than those of, for example, Rabaja\u2019 in Barbaresco or Serraboella in Neive. Andrea Sottimano\u2019s version is made from 25-65 years old vines planted in a three hectare plot, and the wine he makes with these grapes is usually one of the most approachable, when young, among the many crus in his stable of Barbarescos. At the same time, it is usually more complex and concentrated than the Basarin wines of many of his colleagues.<\/p>\n

Bright red, the Sottimano 2018 Barbaresco Basarin<\/strong> offers a complex but forward, open-knit nose of sweet spices, red cherry, dried rose petal and licorice. The licorice and even a hint of minty spices repeat on entry and in the middle with the licorice component dominating (as it often does in wines from Basarin) on the long seamless finish. Maybe not the most concentrated wine Andrea Sottimano has ever produced, this is nonetheless a lovely wine that will deliver lots of pleasure with more than a decade plus of very fine drinking ahead. The wine reflects Amdrea Sottimano\u2019s hands-off approach to winemaking, with less intervention in the cellar than was common at the winery say fifteen years ago, with an almost Burgundian feel to the winemaking. Traditionally macerated long on the skins and fermented with natural yeasts only, the wine remains on the lees for the entirety of its 24 months spent in French oak barriques (10% new) and is bottled unfined and unfiltered. Drinking window: 2027-2034.<\/p>\n

D\u00f6nnhoff 2006 Oberh\u00e4user Br\u00fccke Riesling Beerenauslese\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 93<\/strong><\/p>\n

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When it comes to estate\u2019s like D\u00f6nnhoff, wine writing becomes (almost) easy. That\u2019s because D\u00f6nnhoff is one of Germany\u2019s ten best wine estates, and their wines are true monuments to Riesling. The family has been farming the Oberh\u00e4usen vineyards ever since they arrived in the area roughly 250 years ago, though at first like most every other family in the area also dabbled in growing other vegetables and even raising livestock. The wine estate was officially founded in the 1920s by Hermann D\u00f6nnhoff (also the first name of the second D\u00f6nnhoff to run the show, followed by Helmut and then Cornelius, the fourth generation at work who joined forces with his father in 2007) but it is only fair to recognize that it was Helmut who first put it on the world quality wine map. The roughly twenty-five hectares of top sites in the Nahe region of Germany are farmed carefully, with grass and compost littered between rows to help preserve water (at D\u00f6nnhoff no irrigation is used) and prevent erosion. Vines are trained low to the ground to help catch heat from the stones in the soil and ensure optimal maturity. The Br\u00fccke is a real grand cru and the site from where I personally think D\u00f6nnhoff makes his best wines, as its slate, porphir, loam, and sandstone makeup help deliver complex, rich, concentrated wines I never tire of. The latest bottle of D\u00f6nnhoff\u2019s 2006 Oberh\u00e4user Br\u00fccke Riesling Beerenauslese<\/strong> strikes me as being one of the heavier, richer wines I have ever tasted from D\u00f6nnhoff at this sweetness level. Downright viscous and oily, it is most definitely less vibrant at the same stage of development than the Auslese of same vintage and vineyard, though clearly it is a great deal sweeter, deeper, more complex and creamier. I have had this 2006 BA on numerous occasions and last tried it in the summer of 2018; my notes show that I did not find it quite as sweet then as I find it to be today, though the wine was obviously just as wonderful then as it is now. My most recent tasting of this little beauty just a few days ago shows a bright golden yellow colour. The nose offers a panoply of tropical fruits (mango, papaya, pineapple), fresh orange and tangerine, even raspberries, not to mention plenty of honey and very gentle sweet spices, complicated by hints of smoky botrytis. Flavours similar to the aromas greet the palate, where there is very good mid-palate depth but a little less grip than I would have liked on the long, very pure finish. This specific bottle didn\u2019t quite strike me as being as fresh as I remembered it being on other occasions, but I am happy to say I still have three more bottles of this little gem in my cellar, and so I look forward to enjoying it quite some more in the years to come. I may be wrong, but I think I\u2019ll be scoring all three higher than I did this bottle. Or maybe, because it\u2019s the great D\u00f6nnhoff we are talking about here, I\u2019m just too hard to please. Drinking window: now-2035.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sottimano 2018 Barbaresco Basarin\t\t\t\t\t\t94
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