WTN: Cooper Kupfergrube

[David M. Bueker]

• 2001 Dönnhoff Schloßböckelheimer Kupfergrube Riesling Spätlese - Germany, Nahe (3/31/2026)
  From my father’s cellar, this needed an hour to limber up after nearly 25 years in a bottle. Once it did the fruit freshened, and the underlying power of the site drove the wine like a high-speed freight train - weight and depth but with a flash. I won’t make future development pronouncements based on this bottle, as I know it had some bumps in its journey to get to me, but if a less than pristine example is this good then I have high hopes for my remaining original release bottles.

Cool that you and your dad shared an appreciation for Dönnhoff's wines, David. I know your tastes diverged elsewhere but its nice to have a common ground with your loved ones.

[David M. Bueker]

Well…he bought some to have something to serve to my wife at dinner.

I still count you as fortunate, David. When I would visit my mother, I'd have to bring my own wine lest I be reduced to drinking Cakebread Chardonnay.

After reports about red wine being good for your heart, my dad kept a large bottle of Taylor Lake Country Red (always served with a ice cube). He far preferred to bottles I brought of ESJ, Chevillon, Drouhin, or Felsina. I agree David was lucky.