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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.4 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 70 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by lvjohn on 4/6/2024 & rated 95 points: Very similar impressions to the 1/31/2024 bottle. Great stuff! (890 views) | | | Tasted by jlm on 3/22/2024: Lovely nose with floral notes, white stone fruit, and cream. The palate is broad in its presentation, with soft velvety fruit texture and subtle sweetness spreading on the palate. I can see why others have commented on the lower acidity of this wine, and it's true that it doesn't have a bracing acidic spine. But there is a subtle and well integrated lift that keeps this feeling fresh. And the wine has excellent mid-palate focus on the finish, with flavors of peach skin and citrus pith, along with a hint of bitterness, stretching out with impressive length. (1036 views) | | | Tasted by ppmm on 3/13/2024: Bought a six-pack of this shortly before being separated from my cellar for several years (no, the feds were not involved) which was a good way to enforce self-restraint, except now I can't recall anything I read about it at the time. But who cares? This is excellent. Old dark residue on the top of the cork but the rest is clean and solid. At first sip, damn if this doesn't smell and taste just like a ripe white nectarine, explosively flavorful and summer-sweet, wrapped around a laser beam of acidity. The initial power softens with time in the glass, which lets the midpalate transition to wet rocks and petrol (just a little, and for me, only on the finish) come into clearer view. I don't follow Prüm every vintage so can't make super specific comparisons (I have some 2015s I also haven't opened), but as a few others have noted, this does seem a little weightier than the Kabs I remember from a decade-plus earlier, which isn't surprising. But I think this is balanced and will keep shedding fat as it develops, and it's very early days. (1206 views) | | | Tasted by Lehto on 3/2/2024 & rated 90 points: Soaked cork as usual with Prüm! Color had almost not turned just a slightly bit golden at this point. Pale straw and greenish tint.
Before going into specific notes, I think the style of Prüm is lacking some acidity for my personal preference. For sweet-sweet wines they are definitely among the absolute elite, but I felt this drank more like a Spätlese than a Kabinett for my taste. I love that high-high acidity!
Nose was just absolutely stunning. Both ripe and unripe pineapple, apricot, elderflower, ripe white peach and a very slight hint of citrus fruits.
Palate also showed the same notes of pineapple, apricot, white peach and elderflower but was lacking a bit on the lemon/lime that I love so much. Slightly candied/honeyed with some grapefruit, citrus zest and a hit of petroleum - all which added a slight bitter touch to go along with the sweetness. Personally lacking some more freshness and acidity, but this is still such a well-made Riesling! (1466 views) | | | Tasted by lvjohn on 1/31/2024 & rated 95 points: One of the best Riesling's I've ever tasted. Pure, precise, not very sweet with lime notes as well as white fruit richness. Such wonderful beauty does not come along very often. (1900 views) | | | Tasted by winepog on 1/2/2024 & rated 91 points: Drinking very well. Will age for a significantly longer time. Drinks more like a Spaetlese than a Kabinett. (1930 views) | | | Tasted by lvjohn on 6/5/2023 & rated 94 points: This is a terrific wine if you like German Riesling at all. Light golden color. Lovely white fruit nose. Great mouthfeel and persistence. Lots of life in this one. (2349 views) | | | Tasted by Peter Spijker on 2/3/2023 & rated 91 points: No detailed note made. Definitely the most full body of the Graacher and Bernkasteler of the same vintage. (2233 views) | | | Tasted by VincentMorey on 12/30/2022: While the cork did not leak on the top end, it seemed wetter than usual...so those hanging onto these should take note. However another 2 years of bottle age turned this into something even more beautiful. The nose was absolutely captivating of ripe stonefruit and citrus bouquet... tangerines, apricots, very ripe plums and peaches, the list goes on. The palate is a bit less of that, and then you have mineral characteristics along with a hint of spice while going down and a fairly dry finish that is so nice with certain food pairings. While WS seems less great in recent vintages, it shined well in 2016. Relatively lighter bodied than I would have liked, but this could be after having a more mineral warm vintage Chablis 1er and an Argentinian Chardonnay before that (thus all relative). This is also a wine that if served to a big table of casual drinkers it will disappear so fast that you might not have any saved for actual matching with specific dishes... (2116 views) | | | Tasted by lozatron on 10/1/2022: Piemonte Wimps (La Trompette): Served from Magnum. On the nose, a whiff of struck match, silage. Pale lemon colour. On the tongue, bit of a spritz. Very sweet - someone mentioned sherbet pips, which i got, and a hint of creaminess. I really want to like this kind of wine but struggle to do so - hopefully continued exposure will work... (2392 views) | | | Tasted by Deux Chevaux on 4/25/2022: 4+ years after the prior: This has developed beautifully, and is in a fine place now. Bright yellow fruit, supported by a lively acid backbone. Very enjoyable over three nights. We suspect this will be even more lovely in future years. (2888 views) | | | Tasted by Euge67 on 3/7/2022 & rated 92 points: Idrocarburi meravigliosi qui.
Tanta roba. (2889 views) | | | Tasted by jnewman77 on 1/9/2022: Delicious stuff as usual; petrol was a bit dominant initially, but quickly evolved to show lovely honeyed fruit, stony mineral notes, and spring flowers. The palate is crisp and fresh with a lovely hint of sweetness on the finish. Drinks too easily. (3086 views) | | | Tasted by CamWheeler on 2/28/2021 & rated 91 points: Tropical pineapple, lemon, peach, graphite and orange rind. Palate is clean, delicate and quite fine - nicely pure with the sweetness really held back. Still very young but still open and providing pleasure - will try to leave it another 6-7 years for the next one. (3975 views) | | | Tasted by USACIA on 1/29/2021 & rated 93 points: Angenehme Restsüsse
Vollmundig an allen Ecke (3442 views) | | | Tasted by sdahar on 12/12/2020 & rated 92 points: Honeyed fruit, well balanced. (2900 views) | | | Tasted by USACIA on 11/27/2020: Honig, zitrus, Pfirsich
Liegt leicht auf der zunge (2871 views) | | | Tasted by Richard P Howden on 8/1/2020 & rated 92 points: Lovely honeyed citrus nose and tart grapefruit palate. Well balanced and med+ finish. (2943 views) | | | Tasted by mpsocal on 7/5/2020 & rated 92 points: A little Apple and just the right amount of sweetness. I’m always impressed with jj prum. (2388 views) | | | Tasted by JHSP on 6/17/2020 & rated 91 points: round and quite big in comparison to Schloss Lieser - had them parallel - never the less great and nice fruit play - (2394 views) | | | Tasted by JBLevinson on 6/12/2020 & rated 93 points: Super good. The 2015 and 2017s are supposed to be "better", but I can't find any faults with this 2016. Sulfur on the nose blew off after a few minutes in the glass. Profile was balanced between sweet and acidic Peach flavors come through with with a tingling mineral mouthfeel at the tip of the tongue after each sip.
I hear these get better with age but it's already so good now! (2144 views) | | | Tasted by Richard P Howden on 5/6/2020 & rated 91 points: Extremely tasty, apple peach honey lime nose. Slightly fizzy and a somewhat silky palate both tart and sweet with honey and hints of herbs. Good balance. (2279 views) | | | Tasted by sorp222 on 5/6/2020 & rated 94 points: Wonderful, Lemon zest and peach, almost fizzy. More please! (2466 views) | | | Tasted by nicefish on 5/2/2020 & rated 92 points: Beautiful. (2149 views) | | | Tasted by chatters on 1/19/2020: From Coravin. Sulphur, struck match, apple, cream, a little peachiness, a touch of sweaty blackcurrant (?)...like Chilean Carmenere...which is very odd. And that note translates to the palate along with apples and peaches. Juicy acidity is note quite enough for the sweetness so the wine very slightly tends to flabbiness. Long though. Hmm. (2715 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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(Weingut Joh. Jos. Prum Riesling Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett White) Login and sign up and see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (6/19/2018)
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View From the Cellar, May/Jun 2018, Issue #75, The 2017 German Vintage Very Careful Selection Leads to Greatness
(Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett- Weingut Joh. Jos. Prüm AP #11) Login and sign up and see review text. | By David Schildknecht
Vinous, Mosel Riesling 2016 Part 1: From Extremes, Equilibrium (Jan 2018) (1/18/2018)
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Mosel Fine Wines, Vintage Report 2016, Review by Estate - Part III, Issue #38 (10/1/2017)
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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)KabinettLowest must sugar content of Prädikat designation resulting in light wines, typically semi-sweet with crisp acidity.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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