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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.9 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 123 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Gfar on 4/8/2024 & rated 93 points: Beautiful (562 views) | | | Tasted by 87tellub on 4/3/2024 & rated 92 points: Very light straw. Petrol on the nose with a swirl, also white peach, pineapple. Medium weight on the palate with nice freshness and a very persistent finish here. White pineapple, and guava / passion fruit. Goes on for a long time. Very easy to crush this. Paired well with a variety of sushi. Lovely. (548 views) | | | Tasted by Dine&Vine on 2/11/2024 & rated 92 points: Same notes as before. Went great with spicy wings and sausage gumbo on Super Bowl Sunday (886 views) | | | Tasted by MarkRichards on 2/9/2024 & rated 93 points: Previous notes are spot on.
Tropical fruits, petrol, and lychee.
Delicious... good acidity balance.
Looking forward to next bottle. Matched well with butter sautéed pin Argentina shrimp.... (768 views) | | | Tasted by Luke275 on 12/9/2023: This absolutely blew my socks off. The complexity on the nose was off the charts. Petrol, lime, tropical fruits, flowers. I couldn’t stop smelling it. The palate was sensational too, amazingly balanced sweetness (not too much) with perfect acidity. Weighty but equally feather light. The finish was sublime, literally lasted forever and tasted exactly like passion fruit panna cotta. A very strong candidate for my wine of the year. I only have one left and while there is clear upside, they are so good, its going to be a challenge to keep my hands off of it! (801 views) | | | Tasted by Dine&Vine on 9/17/2023 & rated 92 points: Definitely get a big whiff of petrol on the nose, with tropical flavors including lychee. Certainly is sweet in a good way with balancing acidity to keep it in check. Tasty. (1145 views) | | | Tasted by Duncan H on 8/1/2023: Duncan drank during summer 2023 (1190 views) | | | Tasted by Rani on 5/12/2023 & rated 93 points: Well it’s a Prum. Classic Mosel tropical fruit, lychee, petrol and baby powder. Pretty sweet for a spatlese this old. Plenty of time left. (1425 views) | | | Tasted by ericpoh1980 on 4/22/2023 & rated 93 points: Pale gold. Pronounced. Honey, petrol, honeysuckle, a hint of flint, pineapple, mango, apricot, straw, dried tropical fruit. developing.
Medium dry, high acidity, low alcohol, full bodied, long finished. High flavor intensity, honey, pineapple, almond, mango.
Outstanding wine. The sweetness so well balanced with the high acidity, not flabby at all, so vibrant. Long finish, long intensity. Drink now with potential to further develop with age. (1338 views) | | | Tasted by munktun on 2/7/2023 & rated 90 points: Fresh and vibrant with just some of those tertiary flavors sneaking in the end to show some age. As expected, this can live for quite a while. (1456 views) | | | Tasted by vagrantone on 6/5/2022 & rated 88 points: Only faint matchstick residue.
nice delicate aromas, mostly floral and stone fruit.
Somewhat undeveloped without great complexity.
good acidity, although I would have liked a little more for the sugar/acid balance.
Relatively short, simple finish but pleasant (2092 views) | | | Tasted by Winevestor on 5/8/2022 & rated 92 points: Petrol on the nose. Pineapple, pear and honey in the mouth. A hit of sweetness, not too much for this Spate. The Prum lightness with a full hit of fruit and camouflaged acidity. Lovely wine. Drinking well, good get better. So good. (2096 views) | | | Tasted by CADomer on 1/9/2022 & rated 92 points: This felt like seeing an old friend. The wines of JJ Prum were my first love in the world of Riesling and they continue to hold a very special place for me. I have been wanting to check in on the 2009 vintage and was not disappointed. It was initially quite luscious on the palate, but with a couple hours of air it really started to shine and show vibrant energy.
Notes of juicy delicious ripe apples, warm spices and Valencia oranges filled the senses. This was rich in fruit but in that classic Prum way, it was still light footed and elegant. These wines have that seemingly impossible juxtaposition of ripeness and depth, while at the same time being extremely elegant and delicate.
I have said the same thing ever since starting to collect Prum back with the 2003 vintage- why don’t I buy more of these?! Even though I seem to buy more every vintage, I still have that feeling. Guess that means they are pretty darn good! (2288 views) | | | Tasted by Rani on 11/21/2021 & rated 93 points: Tasted blind. Textbook Riesling, though the mineral overtone sent me to Rheinhessen and not the Mosel. Structured, with just the right amount of sweetness and acidity, notes of lychee. Tasting younger than it is. No rush to drink it but no reason not to either. (2263 views) | | | Tasted by Tony Ling on 6/23/2021 & rated 95 points: PNP into Zalto Burgundy glass (“No” day): Pale golden to the eyes.
What a reward for having the company of this wine… incredibly detailed and airy exotic fruits like lychee and stone fruits like apricots, ultra elegant and very pure yet complex. White florals too.
Ultra well balanced and great acidity and freshness while maintaining that superb complexity that is hard to find replacements.
What an amazing bottle this is and this is ageing gracefully. Just wow… 94-95 points effortlessly. (2428 views) | | | Tasted by vitroman on 5/26/2021 & rated 91 points: Very delicate and complex. Notes of petrol, pear, tangerine and honey with a long finish. This wine has years and years to go...lots of potential! (1957 views) | | | Tasted by drjb on 4/17/2021 & rated 94 points: This wine remains unchanged with a clear pale green with deepening gold touches and a lifted nose of limes, cumquat, white cherry and nectarine, praline and slate. The palate is intense yet light on its feet with a zesty acidity and mineral touches. The fruit reprises the nose with lovely touches of custard apple on the back palate. There is a nice richness balanced by some real grip and matiere yet the whole package dances lightly on the tongue. A delicious and absolutely consistent wine. (2002 views) | | | Tasted by jnewman77 on 2/24/2021: This was delicious; the nose showed some classic petrol notes initially, then opened to show ripe pear, red apple, honey, wet stone, and honeysuckle blossom. The palate while certainly sweet was still vibrant and tasty. Good acidity keeps it fresh and the finish is lovely and lingering with a touch of honey. (1904 views) | | | Tasted by drjb on 1/26/2021 & rated 94 points: This wine remains steadily delicious with a clear pale green with deepening gold touches and a lifted nose of limes, cumquat, white cherry and nectarine, praline and slate. The palate is intense yet light on its feet with a zesty acidity and mineral touches. There is a nice richness balanced by some real grip and matiere yet the whole package dances lightly on the tongue. A great example. (2058 views) | | | Tasted by Tony Ling on 12/14/2020 & rated 94 points: PNP into Kimura Cava glass (“No” day): Pale bright golden to the eyes.
Largely consistent with previous notes, this gives airy white florals, stone fruits like white peaches and darker tea leaves. Purity and transparency are the main theme here.
To me, this has the perfect acidity and sweetness on palate with high but mellow acidity, minerality is more evident on mid-palate and towards the long persistent finish.
Incredible quality Spatlese here and has many more years ahead. 93-94 points easy. (1743 views) | | | Tasted by jbaron on 10/24/2020 & rated 93 points: So good after 11 years, with plenty of good years to come. Lychee, grapefruit, white melon, some petrol. Penetrating nose and mouth, maybe a slightly less penetrating length. (1640 views) | | | Tasted by pinotpounder on 9/26/2020: 92+ points (1618 views) | | | Tasted by robertek on 9/25/2020 & rated 94 points: So young but so good. (1538 views) | | | Tasted by chbeaumont on 9/7/2020 & rated 91 points: (AP 1014 ex-domain). Remains pale; hessian. penetrating, white fruits; off-dry, sappy acidity, lots of extract, shy; finishes well. Best with 5 more years? (1496 views) | | | Tasted by drjb on 8/28/2020 & rated 94 points: From the Brisbane Club Cellar. Another lovely bottle of this wine that always wins hearts when served as an aperitif or with a first course at dinner with a clear pale green colour and a nose of limes, cumquat, white cherry, praline and slate. The palate is intense yet light on its feet with a zesty acidity and mineral touches. There is a nice richness balanced by some real grip and matiere that is distinctive in the best 2009s. (1614 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 2000, Issue #45 (4/1/2019)
(Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (9/9/2015)
(J J Prüm, Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese Mosel White) Subscribe to see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, May/Jun 2015, Issue #57, Weingut Johann Joseph Prüm One Of the Wine World’s Greatest Estates
(Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese- Weingut Joh. Jos. Prüm) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Tamlyn Currin
JancisRobinson.com (5/10/2013)
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JancisRobinson.com (7/5/2011)
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Vinous, January/February 2011, IWC Issue #154
(Joh. Jos. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jean Fisch and David Rayer
Mosel Fine Wines, Oct 2010, Issue No 13
(Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese) Login and sign up and see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, Sep/Oct 2010, Issue #29, The German Wine Auctions- Re-Visiting the Best 2009ers In This Great Vintage
(Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese- Weingut Joh. Jos. Prüm) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (10/12/2011)
(Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese) Light yellow color; edelfoil, tart apple nose; tasty, tart apple, mineral palate; medium-plus finish 90+ points 90 points | By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (1/26/2011)
(Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese) Light yellow color; green apple, apple skin, lime nose; tight, tart green apple, lime, mineral palate with density, needs a few years; medium finish 90+ pts. 90 points |
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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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