AP #11-06. A bit disappointing considering the producer and vineyard, I remember liking this a lot more several years back. It's still quite delicious with lots of ripe Mosel fruit and florality, a faint honeyed tinge to the aromatics, and plenty of more savoury developing/developed notes. But it also comes across somewhat soft and extremely sweet, lacking the crispness and definition I regularly find from Himmelreich, and the finish is a bit odd - showing a faintly bitter tinge, not unlike what I find in some drier wines with botrytis.
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Delicious Reisling that went great with Indian food. Rich and smooth with just enough residual sugar to cut through the spices. I am glad I saved it this long.
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When I opened this, I was ready to denounce it as yet another German bottle of riesling-flavored syrup. But it’s far too good to be so cynical. The wine is too sweet, to be sure, and the acidity and alcohol body are inadequate. But the flavors—from petrol and slate to mango and rambutan—are divine.
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Deep yellow. Honeyed aromas with a pure beacon of fruit and early high toned petrol. Light to medium body, Auslese level richness and sweetness, a potpourri of papaya, stone fruit, and tangerine with some slate running through it and decent acidity. Delicious, succulent fruit, but somewhat loosely structured for a Prom wine.
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Medium yellow with some residual spritz. Luscious aromas of brown sugar, honey, and stone fruit. Light but pretty sappy for Mosel Spatlese. Moderately sweet-it seemed sweeter at its level than the Auslese tasted a couple of weeks ago due to lower acidity. Nectarine and yellow apple fruit without much slate. Excellent and fully developed with some petrol eventually showing up. Glorious fruit but could use a tad more backbone.
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Sichuan and Rieslings (Taste of Sichuan, Beaverton OR): The nose is showing maturity, but still with some freshness as the tones are more rounded and working together with Quince, red apples, eggs, peaches, pears, nectarines, saline, mineral notes, and yellow flowers. The Light bodied feel is playful, but with purpose while the crisp, high acidity has integrated beautifully and is more of a spine than being on the forefront. This feels like it’s right in its zone. In some ways, this kind of got lost in the big lineup and I really would like to spend more time with a bottle (hopefully) in the future.
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Too sweet and not enough acidity or alcohol warmth for me. I don’t understand why a winemaker would stop the fermentation at 8% alcohol to make a syrupy wine that lacks balance. It’s a shame because these are obviously great grapes.
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Dusting of tartaric crystals on cork, nose of smokey sage, white flowers, pear and freshly cut juice oranges, big on the palate pushing auslesen, a wall of white orchard fruits, ripe acidity with a little bit of pop n sizzle on finish. Fruit profile is rich and creamy with base notes of wet slate. Just a touch of clean white honey, 8%. Good concentration with Long finish, over a few hours this became a bit flabby and there didn’t seem to be sufficient acidity after the fruit opened up, was a 93 upon open, after a few hours 91, purchased upon release, stored accordingly and enjoyed on its own 40-50... Na zdrowie
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Honeyed tropical fruit on the nose. On the palate it has a rich, velvety mouthfeel that complements the tropical fruit flavors to make this a special treat.
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Medium yellow. Stone fruit, apple, and a dash of honey on the nose. Rich and quite sweet for a Prum Spätlese. Ripe fruits as the aromas suggest plus spice and a prominent note of brown sugar. Utterly delightful without doubt for its luscious fruit, but it is too short on acidity to be a truly outstanding example of Mosel Spätlese.
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A kaleidoscope of flavors. Mango, peach, slate, petroleum, tangerine. A little syrupy for my tastes; not enough acid/mineral kick. Hard for me to score it higher because of that. But I liked this wine’s balance when I drank it a couple of years ago. Go figure.
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This was gorgeous with fantastic concentration. Great stone fruit notes, nice minerality. Quite off dry but balanced by strong acidity. Really drinking well now.
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Golden yellow. Amazingly floral, just a hint of petrol. Apricot, cantaloupe, an interesting sweet strawberry note on the finish. Plenty of mouth watering minerality. Very nice, with a long future.
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Medium yellow-gold in color. Lovely and classic aromas of yellow citrus, green herbs, honey, peaches and white florals. A perfectly tensile and medium bodied palate delivers sweet citrus poached peaches balanced by excellent acidity, salty minerals and a long honeyed finish. Lovely...
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Tasted blind. Simply delicious, easily recognizable as a Mosel. Very fine. Relatively sweet for a Spätlese due to the vintage, but balanced and elegant. Drinks very well now.
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Beautifully fruity! The guava aroma is really inviting. Lime and honey dominate the taste while working nicely with a touch of lychee and strawberry flavors. Everything works really well together!
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Excellent. Complex flavors of guava, lime, apple, slate, and petrol. Moderately sweet, but the acidity is perfectly balanced, so the wine tastes refreshing. This has the weight to age for decades.
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Vinetasters: 2001/2005 Joh. Jos. Prüm (Skokie, IL): #11-06, 8% abv. To me, the weakest of the bunch. This is the softest and least structural of the flight (in the context of the lineup!) The fruit is sweeter, it's rounder, there's a lot more sweet stone fruit here as well. It's got a nice apricot tone, but this is the bottle that shows the least acidic cut. Some interesting citrus character here as well.
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Light yellowish gold in color. Lovely aromas of orchard pit fruits, citrus oil, slate and dried flowers. Perfectly off-dry palate reveals peach and citrus compote, mineral salts, fine balance to the sweetness and acidity and a long honeyed/floral finish.
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Light petrol. Golden yellow. perfectly balanced sweet apricot, and cantaloupe fruit layered upon bright zesty acidity. One of the best wines we've consumed in 2018.
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Barely a hint of color in the glass, touch of pale yellow. Nose is shy, feminine and floral. Chamomile, honey suckle, lift, gentle slate base note, White Pear, hints of verbena and soft lemon. Palate is silky with deep and expansive fruit profile. Harmonious, white pear flesh, clementine orange, honey dew melon (green melon), soft with core gentle acidity. There is a creaminess to the fruit. I’d add honeyed but, this wine is not over done or cloying. A touch more acidity would have been welcomed. Served at 40 the acidity is perfect but, the aromatics suffer. Long lingering finish. Served with jalapeno crab cakes and brown butter zucchini it paired nicely. Purchased upon release, stored accordingly, served 40-50 degrees. In its prime time drinking window. Drink now -7 years… Na zdrowie
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This is powerful and sweet with ample acidity but not enough to fully balance the sugar so keep that in mind when pairing this. Very aromatic with citrus on the nose and fruit cocktail on the palate...this is a steamroller of a wine and will show best with dessert, cheese, or a big, spicy Sichuan dish. Should age forever.
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Honey and citrus, with sufficent acidity to keep this in check. A lovely, powerful spatelese that should continue to develop and get better for decades.
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Slightly corked. 1st bottle out of 17 so far like this. Blew off a bit more over an hour plus, but still noticeably present. Was still able to finish the bottle.
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Rich, honeyed, lush and sweet. A touch of apple, mango, peach. Luscious. While not very structured and a bit low on acid, this is youthful and still somewhat primary. Silky and full of class. Really more like an Auslese imo.
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Love JJP, such a great producer. This wine is fantastic and going strong after that many years in bottle. The nose is incredible: baked apple, petrol/lanoline and peach cream and mango. It has a lot of presence on the palate, feels weighty than it looks, almost oily with great minerality and almost feels fizzy. The wine is so oily that it just won't develop any legs, it just coats the inside of the glass!
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Surprisingly lively and tasty after 10 years. It has developed the classic petroleum characteristics of an aged German Riesling, but it still has the structure and body to deliver after 10 years. A very pleasant discovery and glad to have tried it. Delicious.
Seemed a bit muted at first, but opened up nicely after an hour. Green apple, stone and slate on the nose. Medium bodied, showing apple and pear upfront, backed with peach and then some citrus notes. At first, I was concerned as the acidity seemed to be lacking, but given an hour, the acidity become more pronounced as the bottle went from cold to just chilled. Then it showed the nice balance of acidity and richness I'd been expecting. Light mineral notes on the finish. Clearly has the richness to last, but it's really a personal style question as to whether you want to hold this longer. Given the current balance of fruit and acidity, I think it's drinking exceptionally well now and while it will certainly last for a number of years, I think it will starts to lose the acidity and richness that currently make it special.
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Plenty of ripeness (and r/s), this still has a lot of fat hanging over its belt. But, and this is the important part for those willing to hold, this has the potential to be pretty special a decade or more from now. Lovely fruit, but just a little (ripe) fruit-heavy for me at this time. The 2006 Donhoff K-K Spat served next to it was much more ready to drink, and more properly proportioned for my palate. A solid value, nonetheless. recommended
Served non-blind.
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Pale color; still quite youthful. Sulpher, stone and apple notes. Peach blossom, petrol and lime notes on the palate. Bright, youthful acidity. Needs time.
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Opened by Vino Me at Sun Wah. This initially suffered next to the '01 Gunderloch also opened, but by the end of the evening, it had at least pulled alongside, or perhaps passed it for me. Citrus and stone fruit with bracing acidity that holds on and keeps everything in check. This was beautiful by the end of the evening and paired extremely well with the food at Sun Wah. I believe there is a long life remaining here, but it would be hard to keep my hands off if I had any.
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This was drinking fantastic. Agree with others that fruit, sweetness and acidity were in proper balance. Very pleased with the way this has developed. So sad this was the last bottle.
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Not as mind-blowing as my previous bottle, but still excellent. Tropical fruit, citrus, floral notes. The fruit is absolutely delicious, cut by perfectly balancing acidity.
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Delicious! Really lovely spatlese Riesling with strong petrol notes on the nose, and a fruity palate of pineapple & apricot with vibrant acidity. The sweetness & acidity were quite well-balanced.
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Very ripe, with hints of mango to go along with the more typical ripe red apple and peach. A touch of botrytis. Has the trademark Prum texture but, unusual for Prum, there's not enough acid here for me to balance the sugar. It's too sweet to pair with normal foods and works better on its own. There's certainly plenty of concentration so maybe this needs more bottle age to digest the sugar. But this was disappointing for me.
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Wine of the 2001 Vintage at Matt B's House (New Canaan, CT): Slight petrol, apricot, and crushed slate. Good concentration, solid mid palette, and medium finish. JJ Prum seem to consistently deliver balanced, impeccably crafted yet interesting wines and this was no exception.
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Enjoyed the flavors of this wine, as well as its ability to stand up to spicy food (moroccan in this case), though some at the table found it too sweet. Cast off a bunch of bubbles when poured which was somewhat surprising. Enjoyed it, but wouldn't necessarily want any more from this vinatge.
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Petrol nose. We don't drink a lot of sweeter styled riesling, but this may make me a true believer. Ripe peach and apricot flavors with a taut backbone of stoney minerality. No flab, just pure crystalline goodness. There are few kinds of wine that can provide this experience for ~$30.
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Literally put a big smile on my face when I tasted this. Beautiful grapefruit and lime with green apple and a saline kind of edge. Very rich fruit, but with a terrific brightness lifting it up. Long, delicious finish. A gorgeous wine.
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Color: Straw yellow Smell: Quince, yellow apple, dehydrated pineapple, petrol, and saltine crackers Taste: Asian Pear, lime, rock sugar, kiwi, and other faint tropical notes Overall: I guess my tastes are shifting, or my expectations are increasing with time and the more wines I've tasted from this producer. I've had a fair amount of wines from this producer ranging from the 70's, to present. While this is clearly an outstanding wine. I'm probably not going to be buying many more of these wines at their current prices. I'd rather drink a Marcel Deiss
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Honeyed notes of petrol, white flowers, ripe pear, and candied lime peel. Round and polished on the palate with good weight and texture, but the wine loses cut and definition due to a lack of acidity. Flab city. 87 points now, but perhaps a few days in the fridge will balance the wine out.
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Spectacular. This is remarkably accessible with the sulfur blowing off quite quickly, and underneath are layers of ripe, luscious Mosel fruit, florality and gentle honeyed notes with an underpinning of slate. It's quite sweet and primary right now but so well balanced with superb acidity, incredible clarity and freshness to the flavours and a sense of real refreshment that makes it remarkably easy to drink. Not sure if I'll be able to keep my hands off other 05 Prums if they're all this good.
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Flourescent yellow color. Petrol nose. Tastes of melon, lime, and apple. Medium bodied. Very well balanced with refreshing acidity. Long finish with nice complexity and mouthfeel. AP# 25765111106. 8% alcohol.
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I expected sulphur, and was surprised at its absence. Terrific wine with tropical fruits offset by great acidity, although on the second night, it becomes a little creamy.
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NOSE: Lots of petrol in the Riedel with hints of grapefruit underneath. It eventually blew off to reveal muted grapefruit and other tropical fruits. The Dansk glass showed almost no petrol with a fantastic scent of pink graperuit and flowers. (13/14)
TASTE: Here the Dansk fell down. Mango, grapefruit, and peach were a little too sweet; almost cloying. Pleasant, but the minerality was hidden. The Riedel really brought the minerality and crisp acidity to the fore. Although more complex, the fruit was a little too subtle. Both had a nice medium finish. (17/16)
OVERALL: This wine was begging for a sharp, spicy accompanying meal in both glasses. It was clearly a superior wine and would have been better with a meal. (7/7)
So the wine tops out at 90 points, regardless of glass used.
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Solid riesling, as expected. Tropical fruits, peaches, and lilac notes dominate the experience with tangy acidity lingering on the finish. The floral notes run out more than expected on the end as well. I was hoping for a little more crisp acidity, or something to really make me jump, but it didn't happen. Still, the wine is quite enjoyable.
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Very aromatic, nice nose with a lot of lytchee, apricot and hint of pear,petrol and minerality. Quite complex nose. Med to full body, balanced with mild acidity. Some sweetness but this is not annoying at all as it is well complemented by the fruit and acidity.
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Alluring nose of apricots and other stone fruit, with a little lychee, and perhaps some apple or pear too. This fills the mouth with terrific full fruit and definite sweetness but then the acidity kicks in to lend precision to all the flavors and a very pleasing mouth pucker at the end. This is a wonderful wine that has years of life ahead of it.
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Absolutely delicious! Pale yellow color with a touch of gold. Smells of ripe green apples, peaches and apricots with maybe a hint of sulfur hanging on the limestone/mineral element. Definitely sweet in the mouth, it's full-bodied but somehow light on it's feet, showing outstanding flavor density of peach and/or apricot stones. The acids hold it up and prevent it from becoming cloying. What a pleasure this is, I should have bought much more!
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Had as part of a vertical tasting of too much stinking wine so not much in the way of notes. This was drank next to the 01, 02, and 04 versions of the same wine. This wine was heads and tails better than the rest, although part of that may be due to age. This wine was extremely expressive compared to the others showing beautiful notes of flowers, minerality, and fruit. There's also a hint of petrol, but not as defined as in some of the others. My and the group's clear #1 at this point in time.
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Riesling (L'Atelier Michel Darque): Provado às cegas. Amostra n. 08. 8°. NM. Meio-seco, dulçor aparente. Aromas muito finos, intensos. Mineral, favos de mel, querosene e um traço resinoso agradável, lembrando botrytis. Boa acidez e concentração de fruta. Complexo e elegante, com dulçor presente mas sem excessos, deve acompanhar bem pratos com toques adocicados. 91-93pts. E/E.
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STRONG sulfur that blew off with time. A light touch of petrol surrounding nuts and trpical fruit. Finishes VERY long with a great tropical flavor. I enjoyed this but can find similar at much lower price points.
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Opened this and its Sonneruhr sister at the fish dinner on Tuesday. As advertised, intense nectar-like concentration and sweetness. I marginally preferred this one due to intriguing piquant note on the finish.
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Very light green in color, crushed flowers and lemon/lime on the nose with sweet pinepple. Crisp and clean, but for my money, a bit on the fruity side. The flinty minerality component isn't there.
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Not decanted. Although the nose was displayed a good deal of the Prum sulfur initially, it was of little consequence, as an absolute tidal wave of a Spatlese took things over once the wine was in the mouth. Very ripe and fresh orchard peaches paired nicely with flavor tints of green apple and vanilla. Though the wine conveyed a sweet feel, there was undeniable acidity lurking in there somewhere, making its presence known with periodic appearances. Long, slate filled finish. Okay, reference point done, put this baby to sleep for years!
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4/2/2024 - salil wrote: 90 Points
AP #11-06. A bit disappointing considering the producer and vineyard, I remember liking this a lot more several years back. It's still quite delicious with lots of ripe Mosel fruit and florality, a faint honeyed tinge to the aromatics, and plenty of more savoury developing/developed notes. But it also comes across somewhat soft and extremely sweet, lacking the crispness and definition I regularly find from Himmelreich, and the finish is a bit odd - showing a faintly bitter tinge, not unlike what I find in some drier wines with botrytis.
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12/28/2023 - golfhawk Likes this wine: 93 Points
Delicious Reisling that went great with Indian food. Rich and smooth with just enough residual sugar to cut through the spices. I am glad I saved it this long.
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10/28/2023 - LW31 Likes this wine:
Lovely deep fruit. Darkens a bit in the glass. To my taste this is at peak as it’s getting soft on the finish
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9/29/2023 - BradleyL Likes this wine: 92 Points
Goes fantastically with spicy food. Still quite dominant in terms of primary flavors, suspect this bottle could go (should go?) even longer.
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7/17/2023 - rmalloy wrote:
When I opened this, I was ready to denounce it as yet another German bottle of riesling-flavored syrup. But it’s far too good to be so cynical. The wine is too sweet, to be sure, and the acidity and alcohol body are inadequate. But the flavors—from petrol and slate to mango and rambutan—are divine.
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6/16/2023 - drwine2001 wrote:
Deep yellow. Honeyed aromas with a pure beacon of fruit and early high toned petrol. Light to medium body, Auslese level richness and sweetness, a potpourri of papaya, stone fruit, and tangerine with some slate running through it and decent acidity. Delicious, succulent fruit, but somewhat loosely structured for a Prom wine.
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8/29/2022 - Tve518 Likes this wine: 81 Points
Quite sweet. Almost dessert like. Has a little tang at the end. Honey and floral notes.
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6/30/2022 - drwine2001 wrote:
Medium yellow with some residual spritz. Luscious aromas of brown sugar, honey, and stone fruit. Light but pretty sappy for Mosel Spatlese. Moderately sweet-it seemed sweeter at its level than the Auslese tasted a couple of weeks ago due to lower acidity. Nectarine and yellow apple fruit without much slate. Excellent and fully developed with some petrol eventually showing up. Glorious fruit but could use a tad more backbone.
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3/19/2022 - KeithAkers wrote: 91 Points
Sichuan and Rieslings (Taste of Sichuan, Beaverton OR): The nose is showing maturity, but still with some freshness as the tones are more rounded and working together with Quince, red apples, eggs, peaches, pears, nectarines, saline, mineral notes, and yellow flowers. The Light bodied feel is playful, but with purpose while the crisp, high acidity has integrated beautifully and is more of a spine than being on the forefront. This feels like it’s right in its zone. In some ways, this kind of got lost in the big lineup and I really would like to spend more time with a bottle (hopefully) in the future.
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9/10/2021 - rmalloy wrote:
Too sweet and not enough acidity or alcohol warmth for me. I don’t understand why a winemaker would stop the fermentation at 8% alcohol to make a syrupy wine that lacks balance. It’s a shame because these are obviously great grapes.
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12/27/2020 - Oechsle Likes this wine: 92 Points
Dusting of tartaric crystals on cork, nose of smokey sage, white flowers, pear and freshly cut juice oranges, big on the palate pushing auslesen, a wall of white orchard fruits, ripe acidity with a little bit of pop n sizzle on finish. Fruit profile is rich and creamy with base notes of wet slate. Just a touch of clean white honey, 8%. Good concentration with Long finish, over a few hours this became a bit flabby and there didn’t seem to be sufficient acidity after the fruit opened up, was a 93 upon open, after a few hours 91, purchased upon release, stored accordingly and enjoyed on its own 40-50... Na zdrowie
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10/26/2020 - gjv115 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Pnp. Wow. Just a beautiful Riesling. All the typical flavors and something extra that I couldn't put my finger on. Brilliant wine experience
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10/6/2020 - Radders12345 Likes this wine: 94 Points
lovely spätlese coming into its own. First of a case
Lovely golden colour
Intense nose, apricot, lemon, stewed apples
Palate: bright ripe apple, pear, apricot, honey, almost a hint of fizz to it with a good acidity at the end. Medium sweet.
Lovely stuff
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8/8/2020 - lovanc@outlook.com wrote:
Honeyed tropical fruit on the nose. On the palate it has a rich, velvety mouthfeel that complements the tropical fruit flavors to make this a special treat.
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8/8/2020 - drwine2001 wrote:
Medium yellow. Stone fruit, apple, and a dash of honey on the nose. Rich and quite sweet for a Prum Spätlese. Ripe fruits as the aromas suggest plus spice and a prominent note of brown sugar. Utterly delightful without doubt for its luscious fruit, but it is too short on acidity to be a truly outstanding example of Mosel Spätlese.
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7/2/2020 - rmalloy Likes this wine: 90 Points
A kaleidoscope of flavors. Mango, peach, slate, petroleum, tangerine. A little syrupy for my tastes; not enough acid/mineral kick. Hard for me to score it higher because of that. But I liked this wine’s balance when I drank it a couple of years ago. Go figure.
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12/26/2019 - Sijan Likes this wine: 93 Points
This was gorgeous with fantastic concentration. Great stone fruit notes, nice minerality. Quite off dry but balanced by strong acidity. Really drinking well now.
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11/28/2019 - mjf@ulkner wrote: 93 Points
Golden yellow. Amazingly floral, just a hint of petrol. Apricot, cantaloupe, an interesting sweet strawberry note on the finish. Plenty of mouth watering minerality. Very nice, with a long future.
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8/2/2019 - devraj Likes this wine: 93 Points
Medium yellow-gold in color. Lovely and classic aromas of yellow citrus, green herbs, honey, peaches and white florals. A perfectly tensile and medium bodied palate delivers sweet citrus poached peaches balanced by excellent acidity, salty minerals and a long honeyed finish. Lovely...
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1/17/2019 - Rani Likes this wine: 92 Points
Tasted blind. Simply delicious, easily recognizable as a Mosel. Very fine. Relatively sweet for a Spätlese due to the vintage, but balanced and elegant. Drinks very well now.
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10/25/2018 - WineRomance Likes this wine: 94 Points
Beautifully fruity! The guava aroma is really inviting. Lime and honey dominate the taste while working nicely with a touch of lychee and strawberry flavors. Everything works really well together!
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10/25/2018 - rmalloy Likes this wine: 94 Points
Excellent. Complex flavors of guava, lime, apple, slate, and petrol. Moderately sweet, but the acidity is perfectly balanced, so the wine tastes refreshing. This has the weight to age for decades.
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10/14/2018 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
Vinetasters: 2001/2005 Joh. Jos. Prüm (Skokie, IL): #11-06, 8% abv. To me, the weakest of the bunch. This is the softest and least structural of the flight (in the context of the lineup!) The fruit is sweeter, it's rounder, there's a lot more sweet stone fruit here as well. It's got a nice apricot tone, but this is the bottle that shows the least acidic cut. Some interesting citrus character here as well.
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8/11/2018 - devraj Likes this wine: 93 Points
Light yellowish gold in color. Lovely aromas of orchard pit fruits, citrus oil, slate and dried flowers. Perfectly off-dry palate reveals peach and citrus compote, mineral salts, fine balance to the sweetness and acidity and a long honeyed/floral finish.
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7/31/2018 - kstoddard wrote:
Flat. Off bottle.
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7/8/2018 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points
Monthly Tasting Group: Interesting Whites (ABC) at Heirloom (Heirloom, St.Paul, MN): Small pour. Nice texture, complex, fusil, tropical, quite long and precocious.
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6/14/2018 - mjf@ulkner wrote: 94 Points
Light petrol. Golden yellow. perfectly balanced sweet apricot, and cantaloupe fruit layered upon bright zesty acidity. One of the best wines we've consumed in 2018.
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3/10/2018 - Oechsle Likes this wine: 94 Points
Barely a hint of color in the glass, touch of pale yellow. Nose is shy, feminine and floral. Chamomile, honey suckle, lift, gentle slate base note, White Pear, hints of verbena and soft lemon. Palate is silky with deep and expansive fruit profile. Harmonious, white pear flesh, clementine orange, honey dew melon (green melon), soft with core gentle acidity. There is a creaminess to the fruit. I’d add honeyed but, this wine is not over done or cloying. A touch more acidity would have been welcomed. Served at 40 the acidity is perfect but, the aromatics suffer. Long lingering finish. Served with jalapeno crab cakes and brown butter zucchini it paired nicely. Purchased upon release, stored accordingly, served 40-50 degrees. In its prime time drinking window. Drink now -7 years… Na zdrowie
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11/26/2017 - BillBell73 wrote:
This is powerful and sweet with ample acidity but not enough to fully balance the sugar so keep that in mind when pairing this. Very aromatic with citrus on the nose and fruit cocktail on the palate...this is a steamroller of a wine and will show best with dessert, cheese, or a big, spicy Sichuan dish. Should age forever.
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9/23/2017 - asparagus Likes this wine: 92 Points
Honey and citrus, with sufficent acidity to keep this in check. A lovely, powerful spatelese that should continue to develop and get better for decades.
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3/18/2017 - vino vidi vici Likes this wine:
Rich and lush tropical delight, with a touch of lanolin on the finish. Wonderful - a real treat. Love JJ Prum.
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9/24/2016 - Primordialsoup wrote: flawed
Slightly corked. 1st bottle out of 17 so far like this. Blew off a bit more over an hour plus, but still noticeably present. Was still able to finish the bottle.
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8/3/2016 - MRichman wrote:
Rich, honeyed, lush and sweet. A touch of apple, mango, peach. Luscious. While not very structured and a bit low on acid, this is youthful and still somewhat primary. Silky and full of class. Really more like an Auslese imo.
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1/8/2016 - IvanKrazy Likes this wine: 92 Points
Love JJP, such a great producer. This wine is fantastic and going strong after that many years in bottle. The nose is incredible: baked apple, petrol/lanoline and peach cream and mango. It has a lot of presence on the palate, feels weighty than it looks, almost oily with great minerality and almost feels fizzy. The wine is so oily that it just won't develop any legs, it just coats the inside of the glass!
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12/8/2015 - ewsds wrote: 92 Points
Surprisingly lively and tasty after 10 years. It has developed the classic petroleum characteristics of an aged German Riesling, but it still has the structure and body to deliver after 10 years. A very pleasant discovery and glad to have tried it. Delicious.
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11/21/2015 - RGCM Gananda Likes this wine: 93 Points
Seemed a bit muted at first, but opened up nicely after an hour. Green apple, stone and slate on the nose. Medium bodied, showing apple and pear upfront, backed with peach and then some citrus notes. At first, I was concerned as the acidity seemed to be lacking, but given an hour, the acidity become more pronounced as the bottle went from cold to just chilled. Then it showed the nice balance of acidity and richness I'd been expecting. Light mineral notes on the finish. Clearly has the richness to last, but it's really a personal style question as to whether you want to hold this longer. Given the current balance of fruit and acidity, I think it's drinking exceptionally well now and while it will certainly last for a number of years, I think it will starts to lose the acidity and richness that currently make it special.
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2/6/2015 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:
Plenty of ripeness (and r/s), this still has a lot of fat hanging over its belt. But, and this is the important part for those willing to hold, this has the potential to be pretty special a decade or more from now. Lovely fruit, but just a little (ripe) fruit-heavy for me at this time. The 2006 Donhoff K-K Spat served next to it was much more ready to drink, and more properly proportioned for my palate. A solid value, nonetheless. recommended
Served non-blind.
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12/24/2014 - Sijan Likes this wine: 93 Points
Fantastic! Continues to improve with age. Petrol nose, tropical fruit, spice. Great acidity to balance sweetness.
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4/10/2014 - awineo Likes this wine: 94 Points
Older with a deep gold color. Fruit was still solid and the acidic balance was good. Sweetness was just right.
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3/29/2014 - AllRed wrote: 93 Points
Pale color; still quite youthful. Sulpher, stone and apple notes. Peach blossom, petrol and lime notes on the palate. Bright, youthful acidity. Needs time.
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3/29/2014 - thelostverse wrote: 95 Points
Opened by Vino Me at Sun Wah. This initially suffered next to the '01 Gunderloch also opened, but by the end of the evening, it had at least pulled alongside, or perhaps passed it for me. Citrus and stone fruit with bracing acidity that holds on and keeps everything in check. This was beautiful by the end of the evening and paired extremely well with the food at Sun Wah. I believe there is a long life remaining here, but it would be hard to keep my hands off if I had any.
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2/2/2014 - jwolf99 Likes this wine: 93 Points
This was drinking fantastic. Agree with others that fruit, sweetness and acidity were in proper balance. Very pleased with the way this has developed. So sad this was the last bottle.
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1/23/2014 - JavaMonkey Likes this wine: 92 Points
Not as mind-blowing as my previous bottle, but still excellent. Tropical fruit, citrus, floral notes. The fruit is absolutely delicious, cut by perfectly balancing acidity.
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12/23/2013 - Sijan Likes this wine: 92 Points
Delicious! Really lovely spatlese Riesling with strong petrol notes on the nose, and a fruity palate of pineapple & apricot with vibrant acidity. The sweetness & acidity were quite well-balanced.
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8/30/2013 - coremill wrote: 87 Points
Very ripe, with hints of mango to go along with the more typical ripe red apple and peach. A touch of botrytis. Has the trademark Prum texture but, unusual for Prum, there's not enough acid here for me to balance the sugar. It's too sweet to pair with normal foods and works better on its own. There's certainly plenty of concentration so maybe this needs more bottle age to digest the sugar. But this was disappointing for me.
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4/19/2013 - overhill wrote: 90 Points
Wine of the 2001 Vintage at Matt B's House (New Canaan, CT): Slight petrol, apricot, and crushed slate. Good concentration, solid mid palette, and medium finish. JJ Prum seem to consistently deliver balanced, impeccably crafted yet interesting wines and this was no exception.
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3/3/2013 - dalondra Likes this wine: 92 Points
Beautiful wine. Everything a classical Reisling should be
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1/7/2013 - Topper wrote: 90 Points
Enjoyed the flavors of this wine, as well as its ability to stand up to spicy food (moroccan in this case), though some at the table found it too sweet. Cast off a bunch of bubbles when poured which was somewhat surprising. Enjoyed it, but wouldn't necessarily want any more from this vinatge.
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12/1/2012 - mjf@ulkner Likes this wine: 92 Points
Petrol nose. We don't drink a lot of sweeter styled riesling, but this may make me a true believer. Ripe peach and apricot flavors with a taut backbone of stoney minerality. No flab, just pure crystalline goodness. There are few kinds of wine that can provide this experience for ~$30.
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11/4/2012 - JavaMonkey wrote: 94 Points
Literally put a big smile on my face when I tasted this. Beautiful grapefruit and lime with green apple and a saline kind of edge. Very rich fruit, but with a terrific brightness lifting it up. Long, delicious finish. A gorgeous wine.
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10/11/2012 - Rani wrote: 92 Points
Delicious. Notes of melon, lychee and baby powder. Lots of chalky minerals on the palate with ample sweetness and a bit of spritz.
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7/31/2012 - NY Wino wrote: 93 Points
Delicious tropical fruit nose, light with good acidity. Easy drinking.
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7/13/2012 - short and confused wrote: 94 Points
No formal notes. I just remember being wowed by the pleasure and complexity coming out of the glass. Lovely stuff.
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5/28/2012 - t018214 wrote: 93 Points
Clean, smooth, bright acid balanced by sweetness, and a surpsing richness. A pure pleasure to drink.
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5/5/2012 - Kirk Grant wrote:
Color: Straw yellow
Smell: Quince, yellow apple, dehydrated pineapple, petrol, and saltine crackers
Taste: Asian Pear, lime, rock sugar, kiwi, and other faint tropical notes
Overall: I guess my tastes are shifting, or my expectations are increasing with time and the more wines I've tasted from this producer. I've had a fair amount of wines from this producer ranging from the 70's, to present. While this is clearly an outstanding wine. I'm probably not going to be buying many more of these wines at their current prices. I'd rather drink a Marcel Deiss
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3/6/2012 - Jack wrote: 90 Points
Pretty much the same as last note. Lime and minerals.
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11/18/2011 - awineo Likes this wine: 93 Points
A well balanced German. Good fruit and minerality with nice acid. Very smooth. a little sweet.
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11/6/2011 - Paul Lin wrote: 87 Points
Honeyed notes of petrol, white flowers, ripe pear, and candied lime peel. Round and polished on the palate with good weight and texture, but the wine loses cut and definition due to a lack of acidity. Flab city. 87 points now, but perhaps a few days in the fridge will balance the wine out.
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9/10/2011 - salil wrote: 94 Points
Spectacular. This is remarkably accessible with the sulfur blowing off quite quickly, and underneath are layers of ripe, luscious Mosel fruit, florality and gentle honeyed notes with an underpinning of slate. It's quite sweet and primary right now but so well balanced with superb acidity, incredible clarity and freshness to the flavours and a sense of real refreshment that makes it remarkably easy to drink. Not sure if I'll be able to keep my hands off other 05 Prums if they're all this good.
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4/30/2011 - Primordialsoup wrote: 92 Points
Superby balanced and nuanced. Great example of a Mosel Riesling. Six years on and still just a baby.
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12/16/2010 - Rollerball wrote: 93 Points
Contained, measured beauty and intensity and incredible length. Residual sugar counterbalanced by nice minerality. Still very young and fresh.
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5/9/2010 - Riezin wrote:
Considerable sulfur made this hard to evaluate. Needs time.
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5/6/2010 - kstoddard Likes this wine: 92 Points
Flourescent yellow color. Petrol nose. Tastes of melon, lime, and apple. Medium bodied. Very well balanced with refreshing acidity. Long finish with nice complexity and mouthfeel. AP# 25765111106. 8% alcohol.
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3/25/2010 - GARDEN wrote: 91 Points
90 on night one and 91 on night two
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10/8/2009 - Diane (LI) wrote:
I expected sulphur, and was surprised at its absence. Terrific wine with tropical fruits offset by great acidity, although on the second night, it becomes a little creamy.
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8/24/2009 - gbm wrote: 90 Points
Virtual Community Tasting Event (VCTE) V - A Month of Rieslings; 7/25/2009-8/31/2009: Tested Riedel Vinum vs. Dansk generic white/chard. Category scores are listed as Riedel/Dansk (R/D).
COLOR: Same. Pale yellow. (3/3)
NOSE: Lots of petrol in the Riedel with hints of grapefruit underneath. It eventually blew off to reveal muted grapefruit and other tropical fruits. The Dansk glass showed almost no petrol with a fantastic scent of pink graperuit and flowers. (13/14)
TASTE: Here the Dansk fell down. Mango, grapefruit, and peach were a little too sweet; almost cloying. Pleasant, but the minerality was hidden. The Riedel really brought the minerality and crisp acidity to the fore. Although more complex, the fruit was a little too subtle. Both had a nice medium finish. (17/16)
OVERALL: This wine was begging for a sharp, spicy accompanying meal in both glasses. It was clearly a superior wine and would have been better with a meal. (7/7)
So the wine tops out at 90 points, regardless of glass used.
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6/20/2009 - subtlet wrote: 91 Points
Solid riesling, as expected. Tropical fruits, peaches, and lilac notes dominate the experience with tangy acidity lingering on the finish. The floral notes run out more than expected on the end as well. I was hoping for a little more crisp acidity, or something to really make me jump, but it didn't happen. Still, the wine is quite enjoyable.
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3/14/2009 - jrf wrote: 90 Points
Very floral nose - made me stop (in a good way) to linger longer prior to tasting. Nice balance of fruit and acidity - wonderful wine.
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1/19/2009 - french16 wrote: 91 Points
Very aromatic, nice nose with a lot of lytchee, apricot and hint of pear,petrol and minerality. Quite complex nose.
Med to full body, balanced with mild acidity. Some sweetness but this is not annoying at all as it is well complemented by the fruit and acidity.
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1/18/2009 - grossie wrote: 93 Points
Alluring nose of apricots and other stone fruit, with a little lychee, and perhaps some apple or pear too. This fills the mouth with terrific full fruit and definite sweetness but then the acidity kicks in to lend precision to all the flavors and a very pleasing mouth pucker at the end. This is a wonderful wine that has years of life ahead of it.
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1/4/2009 - the godfather wrote: 92 Points
very tasty
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12/20/2008 - Brnshj22 wrote: 90 Points
A bit closed now. Needs a heavy decant. Yeast and sulphur is present as always in the young ones.
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10/24/2008 - muchomaas wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful minerality. Sulfur smell very faint but blows off quickly. Nice pineapple and pleasant, sweet fruits with a long finish of minerals.
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6/1/2008 - kstoddard wrote: 90 Points
Pineapple, pear, grapefruit and petrol. Lots of wet stone minerality. Fruit forward and rich. Nice body and finish. AP#25765111106. 8% alcohol.
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5/13/2008 - Jack wrote: 90 Points
Opened up a little ove 3 days but still seems closed down to me. Lime and vanilla stand out a little.
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3/23/2008 - grossie wrote: 92 Points
Absolutely delicious! Pale yellow color with a touch of gold. Smells of ripe green apples, peaches and apricots with maybe a hint of sulfur hanging on the limestone/mineral element. Definitely sweet in the mouth, it's full-bodied but somehow light on it's feet, showing outstanding flavor density of peach and/or apricot stones. The acids hold it up and prevent it from becoming cloying. What a pleasure this is, I should have bought much more!
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12/3/2007 - drcbarroso wrote: 93 Points
Had as part of a vertical tasting of too much stinking wine so not much in the way of notes. This was drank next to the 01, 02, and 04 versions of the same wine. This wine was heads and tails better than the rest, although part of that may be due to age. This wine was extremely expressive compared to the others showing beautiful notes of flowers, minerality, and fruit. There's also a hint of petrol, but not as defined as in some of the others. My and the group's clear #1 at this point in time.
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11/8/2007 - Vinho wrote:
Riesling (L'Atelier Michel Darque): Provado às cegas. Amostra n. 08. 8°. NM. Meio-seco, dulçor aparente. Aromas muito finos, intensos. Mineral, favos de mel, querosene e um traço resinoso agradável, lembrando botrytis. Boa acidez e concentração de fruta. Complexo e elegante, com dulçor presente mas sem excessos, deve acompanhar bem pratos com toques adocicados. 91-93pts. E/E.
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8/19/2007 - LPskeleton wrote: 91 Points
STRONG sulfur that blew off with time. A light touch of petrol surrounding nuts and trpical fruit. Finishes VERY long with a great tropical flavor. I enjoyed this but can find similar at much lower price points.
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8/5/2007 - yeastbeast wrote: 88 Points
Opened this and its Sonneruhr sister at the fish dinner on Tuesday. As advertised, intense nectar-like concentration and sweetness. I marginally preferred this one due to intriguing piquant note on the finish.
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8/3/2007 - N2Vin wrote: 92 Points
Very light green in color, crushed flowers and lemon/lime on the nose with sweet pinepple. Crisp and clean, but for my money, a bit on the fruity side. The flinty minerality component isn't there.
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5/13/2007 - Dale M wrote: 93 Points
Not decanted. Although the nose was displayed a good deal of the Prum sulfur initially, it was of little consequence, as an absolute tidal wave of a Spatlese took things over once the wine was in the mouth. Very ripe and fresh orchard peaches paired nicely with flavor tints of green apple and vanilla. Though the wine conveyed a sweet feel, there was undeniable acidity lurking in there somewhere, making its presence known with periodic appearances. Long, slate filled finish. Okay, reference point done, put this baby to sleep for years!
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