Donnhoff Niederhauser Hermannshöhle Riesling Spätlese

94+ points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The 2010 Hermannshhle Sptlese is another very beautiful example of the vintage. The wine today offers up a stunning, crystalline expression of its slate minerality on both the nose and palate, to go along with a superb aromatic mix of sweet grapefruit, orange peel, incipient notes of petrol and a topnote of orange zest. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very pure on the attack, with a kaleidoscopic base of minerality, snappy acids and a very long, focused and electric finish. This wine is beautifully light on its feet and so intensely flavored that it is almost painful to taste today in its youth. It is a beautiful bottle of Sptlese that seems likely to be a stylistic mix of the 2001 and 2004. 2016-2050. (Mar/Apr 2011)"

Riesling is very food-friendly and pairs nicely with all Asian foods, Southwestern and BBQ. It also is a great match for blue cheese and fish.