Donnhoff, Riesling Spatlese Oberhauser Brucke, 2007 clara_investigate and a notable sand content

and a notable sand content that lends Margheria its distinctive perfumed

It’s proof that Guigal’s “entry” wine isn’t so entry after all—especially when time has done its thing

Compared to more opulent barrel-fermented Douro whites

planted on marly-limestone soils similar to Vosne-Romanée

but Pinon's soils — tuffeau limestone — kept the wine honest

Donnhoff, Riesling Spatlese Oberhauser Brucke, 2007 clara_investigate and a notable sand contentNineteen years in bottle on one of Germany's most coveted Sptlesen. Dnnhoff sits at the very top of Nahe Riesling Helmut Dnnhoff built the estate's reputation across the 1980s and 90s, and his son Cornelius now leads the cellar. Oberhuser Brcke ("the Oberhausen bridge") is the family's monopole, a small parcel of grey slate over loess loam on a south southwest facing slope right where the Nahe river bends past the village of Oberhausen the river's