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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.6 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 252 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Collector1855 on 2/4/2024 & rated 95 points: During a GE/AUT blind tasting. We had the 1996, 2005 and 2007 in a flight next to each other. All of them showed really well. The 1996 had the most complex tertiary nose with lots of Lychee aromas, the 2005 was the richest, with lots of layers of lemon and yellow fruit and the 2007 the lightest with the most precision. It was really a matter of taste which one you liked the most. I scored all of them 95-96. Spätlese at its best. (1386 views) | | | Tasted by J_H on 2/3/2024 & rated 94 points: - Blind, GE/AUT tasting
- Three Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spätlese were served.
1996:
- floral, quince, honey but so lean and simply elegant and so complex but still precise. Has enough fullness and sweetness but balanced with a great acidity. Probably one of the best white wines I have drunk so far.
- 96p
2005:
- Riper and more quince and honey, more body and beautiful stony flavours. Compared to the other two, the most intense Prüm.
- 95p
2007:
- Aroma profile similar to the other two but leanest and most precise.
- 94p (928 views) | | | Tasted by JulianSkeels on 9/3/2023 & rated 92 points: Noticeably more honey and candied fruit on the nose than normal for this bottling - although lovely aromatics… usual petrol but plenty of white flowers too. Noticeably richer than expected with a heavy oiliness. Lacks real flavour definition and relatively fat for this rendition. I think it could use a touch more acidity/freshness but really needs another 5yrs. Nowhere near as ready as the lovely 2005 (and 2006). Will try the 2003 soon to compare. 92pts now, but could be better after 2028 (1793 views) | | | Tasted by hargy on 7/28/2023 & rated 92 points: pale pale yellow - gentle wine with a lovely delicate balance to it - wonderful! (1784 views) | | | Tasted by dbg on 7/3/2023: A bit denser yellow than a bottle 2 years ago. Open from the get-go with forward nose of lemon, peach, apple. Rich, ripe fruit, some minerality. Like the last bottle, more on the lush than crisp side for Prum but still excellent balancing acidity. Medium-long finish. In its wheelhouse now and likely to remain there for many years to come. Excellent. (1909 views) | | | Tasted by Squirreljam on 4/9/2023: Hmm last 750 of 3 from Garagiste 15 years ago, wish I’d bought more. Just gently settling into early middle age, still primary but less in-your-face about it than 10 years ago. Beautiful straw-gold color, nose not all that expressive but white fruit and flowers for sure. Lovely balanced acidity, some slate but not a lot, more white peaches and a hint of citrus (there was more a while back). (2123 views) | | | Tasted by Peter Spijker on 2/3/2023 & rated 92 points: No detailed note made (2252 views) | | | Tasted by winchester-xi on 12/26/2022: To my taste, this showing a pretty ideal balance between secondary and tertiary characteristics . The fruit is undeniably lush and veers towards the tropical (pineapple) end of the spectrum, with significant residual sugar and not so much upfront slatiness. But there is very nice blackberry note and a (thin) vein of acidity lurking about in the background. Beyond that, the wine just has a very good sense of poise. Not my favorite vintage, but a solid effort given what they had to work with imho. I’d say it’s best when paired with food that’s tart or tangy or salty or sharp. (1728 views) | | | Tasted by jhw425 on 9/7/2022 & rated 92 points: This wine was perfect just starting to enter the beginning of a secondary phase great acidity and balance couldn’t be better with Asian food! (2361 views) | | | Tasted by lepetitchateau on 9/4/2022: Beautiful wine (2130 views) | | | Tasted by Jessie and Max on 7/23/2022 & rated 95 points: Wow! I've not had the chance to taste a Riesling this old again, but this one was picked out by the instructor of a class on Rieslings from around the world, and everyone agreed it was a great choice.
For Jessie, what jumped out was a big whiff of coconut. Then marmalade and honey and marzipan and dill -- I wouldn't have guessed this was Riesling. Ripe tropical flavors, including banana, on the palate. ~30 g/L RS. Great stuff!
I'm going to buy some of this and stash it away in my cellar for sure. I hope when it ages it's as good as this. (1945 views) | | | Tasted by devraj on 7/21/2022 & rated 93 points: Medium yellow in color. Was initially very funky on the nose, but over 20 mins it blew off to reveal lots of floral and herbal aromas, lemon curd, hint of orchard pit fruits and petrol and minerals. The palate shows perfectly off-dry custardy yellow citrus, good acidity and along floral and mineral tinged finish. (1742 views) | | | Tasted by sdr on 7/19/2022 & rated 92 points: Fully mature, fairly sweet, extremely rich and luscious for its Prädicat. I’d prefer more acid and stones but it’s clearly very good. (1805 views) | | | Tasted by TDV on 7/14/2022 & rated 92 points: Just that perfect balance of weightlessness and substance that Prüm are so good at. (1584 views) | | | Tasted by lepetitchateau on 7/10/2022: AP 24 - Revisited this after several years - still has the positive quality I saw in 2016, still very delicious and has mellowed in the intervening years. Still expect further positive evolution. (1574 views) | | | Tasted by ArtF on 6/16/2022 & rated 95 points: Not as elegant as the auslese. But this half bottle was flat out delicious. Light to medium gold color. Hard to believe this is 15 years old. Has sufficient acidity for half bottles to continue aging well 2+ years. Full bottles to 2027, at least. (1347 views) | | | Tasted by randyjc on 5/8/2022 & rated 92 points: Really a lovely wine - good depth and balance, nice sweetness, a hint of dill and a stronger bit of citrus minerality. Remarkably, it paired extremely well with barbecued habanero honey pork ribs. (1701 views) | | | Tasted by Satoshi Nakamoto on 3/26/2022 & rated 90 points: Decent. Petrol on the nose with white flowers and sweet fruit on the palate. Somewhat flabby and overly simplistic though. (1818 views) | | | Tasted by ArtF on 2/11/2022 & rated 92 points: Perfect with a spicy Indian dinner. (1689 views) | | | Tasted by ArtF on 1/30/2022 & rated 92 points: Light gold from .375 bottle. Minerals make this more fruity than sweet. Missing the elegance of the 2007 auslese. But a very nice drink. (1843 views) | | | Tasted by John Nezlek on 1/15/2022 & rated 92 points: Note: I use a scale on which 85 represents a very good wine.
Not quite as outrageously good as the last bottle, bit still great. (1832 views) | | | Tasted by fcxj on 1/11/2022 & rated 92 points: Eminently quaffable. (2169 views) | | | Tasted by HowardNZ on 12/29/2021 & rated 93 points: 2019 Visit to North Canterbury, NZ: Served as a replacement by Marcel to match the delicious home-made white truffle icecream and strudel. A lovely wine showing flinty, smoky reduction with lemon, peach and yellow apples. No terpene character. A clean and pure mouth. Mineral with rock melon, pineapple and a touch of honey. Drinking well on the night, matching the savouriness of the dessert. (2115 views) | | | Tasted by dbg on 12/24/2021: Cellared since release, perfect cork and fill. Light yellow. Forward fulsome nose of lemon, peach, apple. I’m not getting any petrol or reduction. Rich, ripe fruit with some minerality - not pronounced. A bit more on the lush than crisp side for Prum but still excellent balancing acidity. Medium-long finish keeps me coming back for more. Drinking very well now and should continue to do so for another decade or more. Excellent-Outstanding. (1480 views) | | | Tasted by rocknroller on 11/25/2021 & rated 93 points: Medium gold color. Drank a couple glasses over Thanksgiving dinner. This has a great fruit profile, ripe apple with nice tropical fruits layered in, pineapple, mango, and peach, medium plus bodied, oily texture, rich and tart, and nicely sweet with good acidity, slate and light fusil notes and good length. (1844 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By Jean Fisch and David Rayer
Mosel Fine Wines, Maturing Mosel: 10 years after retrospective of 2007, Issue #34 (4/1/2017)
(Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
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Vinous, January/February 2009, IWC Issue #142
(Joh. Jos. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese) Subscribe to see review text. | By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (10/14/2009)
(Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese) Wintergreen, green fruit nose; tasty, mineral, ripe lime palate; medium-plus finish 92 points | By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (1/16/2009)
(Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese) Pale yellow color; light stone fruit and white flower nose; bright, focused, ripe stone fruit and ripe sweet lime palate; short-medium finish 90 points | By Jesse Becker, MS
Sommelier Journal, January 2009
(J.J. Prüm Riesling Spätlese Wehlener Sonnenuhr) Aromas of smoke and gunflint, grilled apples, and wonderfully integrated minerality. Piercing green-apple flavors, followed by some white peach and even lime. This wine has richness, but is remarkably linear, with pretty, balanced acidity. I asked Katharina Prüm if she thought “smoke” was a good descriptor for the aroma of slate, but she replied that a smoky character was more likely the result of a warmer vintage. Terroir: Wehlener Sonnenuhr | By Jon Rimmerman
Garagiste (9/11/2008)
(JJ Prum W-S Spatlese) 2007 JJ Prum Dear Friends, Based on the order requests for the 2007 JJ Prum W-S Kabinett, I'm almost hesitant to put this out - it's the flagship of the winery and (in my opinion) the finest non-GK wine JJ Prum has produced since the 2001. There are bizarre levels of allocation pressure with Prum's 2007 portfolio and the emerging markets of China (Hong Kong) and Russia have left the US firmly in the background - when someone is willing to pay anything for your wine, it's tough to ignore them. With that in mind, there are very few cases of 2007 Prum W-S Spatlese this year so please be patient with Niki - she will do her best to allocate fairly. The 2007 W-S Spatlese pretty much sums up the vintage - it is tactile, stone-filled and piquant with near-perfect levels of buffering, clean, terroir specific extract that leave vintages such as 2003, 2005 and 2006 firmly in the rearview mirror. An effort that should repay the patient in a similar way to 1975. EXTREMELY LIMITED 2007 JJ Prum Wehlener-Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese Thank you, Jon Rimmerman Garagiste Seattle, WA Germ7910 |
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| Joh. Jos. Prüm Producer website | Importer website | More information on Prüm Goldkapsel wines
Manfred Prüm runs one of the Mosel’s, if not the whole of Germany’s, most revered and respected Estates. It is also amongst the most enigmatic as no-one has yet made it down to his mysterious cellars. Manfred is certainly one of the world’s more eccentric wine producers and a tasting in his drawing room with him is always enjoyable and entertaining. In the Sonnenuhr of Wehlen he owns a portion of one of the Mittel Mosel’s top vineyards. Its steep south-facing dark slate slopes tend to result in deeply flavoured, mineral yet rich and smoky wines. In addition, he manipulates some plots in the next door Himmelreich of Graach which produces engaging wines with fresh acidities that are slightly softer and earlier maturing. These are unashamedly classic, exciting and long-lived wines produced predominantly in stainless tanks to avoid the addition of too much sulphur, though a small proportion of wooden casks are retained, however, depending on the vintage. They are bottled later than most Mosel and often take a few years in bottle before showing the true character, but patience will be rewarded!
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It may be of help to users of this site if the AP number is recorded with every tasting note. The producer makes several essentially identical AP number bottlings separately registered, however. Thus, the standard bottlings need not be identified in the head of the article but any differences between AP numbers can thus be noted in the tasting write-ups.
This is one of the houses where, except for very tiny extra-late or auction bottlings, the AP numbers have little meaning, so there is no reason to have many different identities to several of what are the same wine--just makes the information harder to access. This is one of the very few houses that I'd argue this way. jhtRiesling Varietal character (Appellation America) | A short history of Riesling (Uncork) | Riesling (wikipedia)Spätlese Wikipedia article on Spätlese.Wehlener SonnenuhrLagenbeschreibung:
Sonnenuhr errichtet 1842 durch Jodocus Prüm; Lage trägt Namen seit Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Optimale Süd-Süd-West-Exposition, Steilheit bis zu 60%, gute Wasserversorgung. Faktoren bieten beste Reifebedingungen, sind Grundlage für Erzeugung von Weinen von besonderer Eleganz, Feinheit & Ausdruck.
Boden:
Devonschiefer-Verwitterungsboden; in other words, a light friable (easily breakable) greyish-blue slate with some ferric muddiness between layers. Source--personal observation of site. jh
Layer description:
Sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm; Lage has had names since the beginning of the 20th century. Optimal south-southwest exposure, steepness up to 60%, good water supply. Factors offer the best ripening conditions, are the basis for the production of wines of particular elegance, delicacy and expression.
Exact position on weinlagen.infoGermany Wines of Germany | The Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates (VDP) | How to read a German wine label | Geographical Information Down to Single Vineyards
#2014 Vintage Notes:
2014 Vintage Report by Terry Theise
2014 Vintage Report by Wine Spectator
"My gut still tells me the Saar (and to some extent) the Ruwer are better overall in 2014 than the more storied areas of the Mosel proper, but those that spent the requisite time living in their middle-Mosel vineyards made some of the most electric and "feathery" Riesling in a long time (maybe the finest in 20 years - yes, it's true!)" - Jon Rimmerman (Of course only a very short historical memory would call the Saar and Ruwer less 'storied' than the middle Mosel - jht)Mosel Saar RuwerStarting in 2007 the German wine authorities have changed labeling laws to rename all of the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer wines to just "Mosel." This puts this and other database driven sites in a difficult spot, as millions of old wine label reflect the former labeling. As described here, CellarTracker has elected to remain with the old labeling for a number of years to avoid confusion. At some point we will switch over to just "Mosel" but not for a few years at least.
Mosel WeinKulturland (Moselwein e.V.)
Detailed geographical information at weinlagen.info
#2018 Vintage Notes:
"Acid levels are relatively low throughout Riesling-growing Europe (acidification will once again be permitted in Germany – no surprise, as that’s been the case in eight of the last 10 vintages); but because malic acid was baked off or degraded by relentlessly balmy weather means, what acid remains is overwhelmingly of the efficacious tartaric sort. Extract levels are low, as one would anticipate from a growing season during which relatively little moisture was coursing through the vine’s roots and shoots. [...] Everyone is astonished how there could have been so much juice despite the drought." - David Schildknecht
"2018 is a homogenous vintage with a very high general level, below which it seldom falls [...] It leads with blossom. It is perhaps 80% delicious and 20% fascinating." - Terry Theise
#2017 Vintage Notes:
"not so friendly towards light wines" - Milkmansteve
#2016 Vintage Notes: "Overall, 2016 is a charmer of a vintage with much immediate ripe and fruity appeal, not unlike 2011 (in fresher) or 2007 (in lighter). However, 2016 is far from being homogeneous, in fact it is composed of a mosaic of vintages, a result of the freakish growing conditions. Hidden inside the vintage, there are true gems with the balance of 1997, one of the best vintages ever, 2002 or even 2008. The bulk of the harvest was brought in with refreshingly moderate sugar levels. Overall, the Saar and Ruwer produced slightly fresher wines than the Middle Mosel but there are great differences between Estates. The good harvest conditions allowed for some Auslese, little BA and even TBA wines, but some remarkably pure and fruity Eiswein.
In general, 2016 offers the opportunity to acquire Riesling with great immediate ripe appeal: The vintage is a true charmer. At the top, 2016 is one of the most exciting and elegantly balanced vintage since the 1990s and well-worth stocking up for cellaring! In particular, we urge our readers to literally plunge onto the finest Kabinett and Spätlese: These are some of the most exciting and classic we have ever tasted. 2016 looks also set to become a major vintage for dry Riesling, provided the aromatics are not overripe. Lovers of dessert wines will find much to love in 2016 as the Auslese are pure and the Eiswein are gorgeously fruity. They should however also keep an eye open for the remaining stunning noble-sweet wines from 2015 which are still available here and there." - Mosel Fines Wines, No. 36, July 2017
#2014 Vintage Notes:
"The heterogeneity of the 2014 vintage carries over onto the aging process. The top wines start to close down, as one would expect from these wines which are a remake of those from the 1990s. The wines affected by gin, saffron and mushroom flavors are still comparatively open and offer a not unattractive Scheurebe styled fruit opulence. We would opt to drink up these lesser wines except for the odd bottle and bury the little treasures of the vintage deep into the cellar." - Mosel Fines Wines, No. 30, March 2016
#2013 Vintage Notes:
"The fruity-styled 2013 wines have firmed up significantly since last year and start to show signs of closing down, making the underlying acidity seemingly sharp and out of balance. The better dry wines have come out of their early armor of smoke and tannin but the acidity may prove quite challenging. Quite frankly, except for some smaller bottlings, this is a vintage to lay down and wait." - Mosel Fines Wines, No. 27, March 2015
#2012 Vintage Notes:
"The 2012 wines have put on some flesh and go through a 'fattier' phase which is not unlike what the 2007 went through at the same period. However, the zestier acidity cuts through this 'weight' and makes the wines thoroughly enjoyable at this early stage. In particular the fruity Kabinett and Spatlese as well as the off-dry and dry wines offer much pleasure. We expect these wines to close down over the coming year or two. Enjoy while it lasts!" - Mosel Fines Wines, No. 27, March 2015
#2011 Vintage Notes:
"A bit to our surprise, the 2011 wines have shut down and go through a quite difficult and muted phase now. Their low acidity combined with their maturity makes them feel rich, opulent and often bulky, and thus not really enjoyable. We expect that these will need at least a decade to integrate their sweetness and gain in harmony. The only exception is the dry wines, whose low acidity makes for great food companionship." - Mosel Fines Wines, No. 27, March 2015
#2010 Vintage Notes:
"After a mellower period in 2012, many 2010 wines have firmed up and developed a stronger smoky side. However, most continue to shine through their fruit opulence, structure and deliciously zesty but ripe acidity. This suits in particular the off-dry bottlings, which have more charm than the legally dry wines. Will these wines close down? Actually, the softening acidity makes us wonder now but it also provides further evidence that these wines will turn out harmonious after all." - Mosel Fines Wines, No. 27, March 2015
#2009 Vintage Notes:
"Most 2009 wines have closed down, which accentuates their round and soft side forward. Many can still be quite enjoyable but the times of primary fruit with its attractive aromatic expression and a generous acidic kick are now over. Except for the dry wines, we would definitely recommend keeping your hands off any bottle in your cellar and possibly buying more wines from this vintage on the market as these are true gems in the making." - Mosel Fines Wines, No. 27, March 2015 |
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