PnP. Very aromatic with pear, apple, white cherry, citrus zest, minerality, a hint of vanilla, petrol, and floral. Layers of flavor with pear, apple, cherry, citrus, petrol, minerality, floral. Good acidity with a long smooth finish. Really good now but years of life ahead of it.
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Så rent och snyggt med en liten elegant sötma. Precis vad jag förväntade mig! Så klart fortfarande väldigt ung men definitivt njutbar i denna stund. Paras fint ihop med sojamarinerad laxfisk och fet-starka tillbehör.
Bäst från 2026 och framåt
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BYOB choice for Lebanese meal; Nuba Vancouver Dec 23.
Pale yellow-green. Aromas of apple. Orange and honey on the palette. Sweeter than expected for Kabinett, possibly too much to my preferences — but managed well with acidity and nice finish.
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N....lovely stone fruit medium intensity, wet river stone, sweet stewed apple, a little roasted nut.
C....pale straw, looks L-Medium body.
T.....lovely clean fruit with a decent mineral streak and lively acid; good length of flavours, a touch of tannin; lovely balance here; plenty of charm and drinkability, a lovely mouth-feel; on the dry side of medium-dry, not actually properly dry. Drinking very well but feels cellar time will be rewarded.
VFMoney?......feels worth around £20 but costs £28.00, so not great value for money.
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Light pale golden yellow in color. Full, forward & fragrant nose of ripe fruit aromas of sweet peaches, pears & apples with overtones of floral notes of honeysuckle, orange zest, honey, minerals & touch of slate in the background. Medium bodied with a very good concentration of well balanced & smooth texture, zesty, ripe fruit flavors of stone fruits of yellow peaches, apricots & nectarines with citrus notes, honey, spices, chalky & minerals. Very good balance between the sweetness & the firm acidity. Lingering crisp finish. Drinks quite well at present but will develop further with additional aging. Quite rich for a Kabinett. [AP Nr. 2 576 511 12 21; Alc. 8%]
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Together with a poké sallad with mango. Perfect match between the sweetness in the wine and the good. Nose: apples, citrus, and apricots and honey. Palete: fruit driven (lemon, grilled and fresh), green apples, light tough of fresh herbs and florals
High acidity
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Very pale yellow. Nose shows smoke white fruits, there-s perfectly pitched acidity, slightly off dry, great length and energy and I haven't even mentioned the amazing purity. Love this.
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Started off with strong green apple along with pear and lime on the nose. White orchard fruits became more and more noticeable as it warmed. Between light and medium bodied (8% ABV) with green apple, evolving to white apple upfront with some pear and white melon highlights. Mid-body has white apple, along with white peach and the beginning of some white tropical notes behind. As other reviewers have noted, this has more depth than might be considered traditional for Kabinett, but I suspect that's the new normal. Excellent acidity on the backside provides structure and tart lime and other citrus notes provide the contrast. Allowing this to slowly warm over two hours showcased the complexity this wine has; quite impressive for a Kabinett. Has quite a long life ahead and I'll to wait until at least Summer 2024 for my next bottle.
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German white wine from Mosel: Riesling. 8 % alcohol.
Decanted for one hour prior to consumption and then stored in decanter during the evening.
Light golden/greenish color.
Fresh, sweet and delicate aromas of white flowers, candied pears, wet stones, lemon, honey and minerals. Round, sweet and fresh flavors of candied pears, pineapple, white flowers, lemonade and minerals.
Off-Dry. Medium body. Medium acidity. Excellent balance. Very good structure. Good complexity. Good concentration. Good intensity. Pure.
Very long finish with lemonade and minerals.
An excellent Riesling Kabinett. Balanced, pure and full of minerality. Improves substantially with a few hours of aerating and performs best slightly warmer than fridge temperature. A very good match with food (green curry) and very enjoyable on its own. 95/100
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Smoke and marzipan on the nose with spicey lime marmalade on the palate. Feels like it's closed down a little, but still has plenty of grunt and propulsion through to a clean, chalky finish. High quality stuff but feels a little unsettled and blocky at present. This really should be left alone for some time.
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Color: light straw Nose: ripe peach, bitter orange zest, anise, mint, yellow gummy bears, rosemary, octanes Palate: medium-high acidity, decidedly off-dry but in balance. The body slants light, texturally this is fairly silky. Intensity not incredible, but above the bar Finish: medium
After six bottles of this, I can only say I adore it and wish I had another 18. This is a ripe kabinett as far as I can tell, not very classic but so very charming. One hour of air out the fridge works here
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Double decanted to drive off some spritz immediately before drinking at slightly below cellar temperature. From Grassl Mineralite. Transparent very pale yellow. Nose of pear, satsuma and stone. Palate has lots of fruit at this stage, dominated by apricot notes. Lots of acidity and some mineral notes to bring the Kabinett sweetness into balance. Finishes long with clear fruit notes and acidity. Flavors are very clean and wine is well balanced. Needs time to flesh out of course.
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(Blind tasting) Medium-fullish, elegant and delicate nose. Fresh apple, honey and tropical notes of honey-dew. Grapefruit zest and melon. Off-dry palate with very high acidity. Light-footed, delicate and balanced. Pure and clean, but not overtly complex. Medium finish. Just a hint of petrol.
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Still holding to much the same profile as my last tasting notes, a year ago. Perhaps a shade less bite/ intensity, but the nose and floral notes holding steady.
Rated +1 on a scale of -1 to +3.
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Riesling and Pinot Noir Lunch (Sun Wah - Chicago IL): Double blind at Riesling/ Pinot Noir lunch. Here is a 2020 that managed to already provide pleasure and charm. A bit of spritz took a few minutes to dissipate, but there was lots of balance and even depth, perhaps slightly lacking concentration. Good now, but I expect this will put on weight and improve with cellar time.
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Penny Mordaunt, let me pour a glass of this for you and then we can elope together, just you and me and your faux Thatcherite poison will make three. After a second glass you might even develop a generosity of spirit to match the amplitude of your shape. Maybe. But now, sleeper awake, goodbye to the land of dreams.
This is the kind of wine that can carry you through the world of today; in other words, it is great wine. No, it is almost outstanding wine. Of course, there will be the usual bleating of 'it's sweet', or 'it's too ripe' but these are the cries of those whose imaginations extend to their lawn, children's braces and whether the hedge needs pruning.
If you know and love Mosel then this is bottled sunshine and nectar. I love Prum for the purity of their wine, but this one inhabits a happy place, leaning slightly towards Eva Fricke and Clemens Busch with sheer sex appeal. Here you have clean passionfruit, mandarin, a hint of pear on the nose but then on the palate you get a sense of the richness of apricot, eaten straight off the tree - not heavy and sweet, but alive and rich. Excellent intensity and length and fresh acid that has none of the harshness of Oz Riesling (love them though I do).
I am holding this just short of an outstanding ranking on the CT scale because I think an argument could be made that the finish has just a touch of shortness. it is tough marking but there you are.
I can't really put this down, it is so damned good. The music has to be Mozart, but something about it also leads me to The Cult's 'True Believers'.
Plenty of smoky mineral action to the nose. There's a delicious core of powdered lime. It has some rockmelon too. There's good build and chew and a finish that is fresh, cleansing and long.
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JJ Prum - 2020 range tasting: Lovely aromatic lift on this wine with peach, pear, slate and mandarin - draws you into the wine even at this early stage. The palate is a great mix of bright, pure fruit and a line of acidity that brings it all into focus. A standout in the Kabinett flight today.
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Color:Very pale yellow. Nose: Wet stone, flint stone. Some fruit is lurking in the background. Mouth: Very long. I love the typicity. Very pure and straightforward. Pineapple juice from the can and apples.
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A charmer, good balance, delicious. My first of this vintage and the Kabs are genuine & lovely. Not as deep perhaps as the ‘19 but a solid vintage. Classy.
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In a tasting with 3 Prum Kabinetts: Graacher Himmelreich, Bernkasteler Badstube and Wehlener Sonnenuhr. From memory so no extensive notes. All three were sweeter than I expected. The Berkasteler was the most tightly wound, quite linear and lemony. The GH was the most interesting and complex, at this point the clear winner. The WS was not really integrated and also seemed lacking in acidity and had a little too much richness. The tasting also had Spaets and Auslese - in the Auslese especially the ripeness of the WS was much better balanced with high acidity, so this relative flabbiness is not a problem for all WS levels in 2020, just the Kabinett
Score:89. Relative to expectations: - but only for the Kabinett, the WS Spats is quite a bit nicer while the Aus is glorious and actually tastes less sweet than the Kabinett because it has a massive acidic backbone to it.
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For 2020 WS and GH, side by side, I'm not getting what some others are. But, I guess that's the point of notes.
Both the GH and WS strike me as less weighty than 2019. These are both quite clear while 2019's were almost deep golden with green tinge.
GH is not hitting me with the cool steeliness I've perceived before. Rather, mere high acid and medium- lemon/green apple alongside mild+ savory riesling characteristics. Not distinctive but winemaking stands out. Closed on the nose but seems less open than the WS on account of fruit expression. Pleasant.
WS has an intense dried apricot /cooked applesauce vs "lemon" and this just pops out more. Maybe aided by the effervescence which isn't present in the GH. Tons of saline. Very pleasant. Distinctive but not exciting.
Neither is "closed" for early drinking but neither is rocking in the grand scheme. Corks were very tight but GH had mold under capsule already=lol
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Chameleon nose: crab apple, mango, a whiff of smoke, green citrus, but never at once. Lean and crystal pure, the sweetness extremely restrained given the 8% abv, with an uplifting frissante finish. But it's the chalky minerality that shines here, gripping everything together. I get his with ales from Sussex; that limestone dryness that is so addictive. Marvellous juice.
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Refreshing. Bright sweet fruit (kaleidoscopic in nature: melon, citrus, green apple, Anjou pear), just enough acidity to provide "bite" plus a touch of frissante, light in alcohol, intense in flavor, with a surprisingly long lasting aftertaste.
Rated +1 on a scale of -1 to +3.
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The BB was really floral and juicy, the GH open with more stuffing. WS is much more steely. Plums and berries, super moreish. This has a much deeper core, no exhibitionism here, great strength and tension though. Will be a cracker.
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The Prüm 2020s with Howard Ripley Wines (Zoom!): Almost as pale as the GH Kab, but without the spritz. More amplitude on the nose, with the same tropical fruit but here the undertone is more honeyed, with a muskiness to it. Really quite attractive. On the palate the wine again shows a mineral raciness, with green apple and a real juicy chew as well as a slight pepperiness towards the finish. Feels very clean and crisp, like a dry cider. Complex and refreshing.
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3/10/2024 - gharter Likes this wine: 92 Points
PnP. Very aromatic with pear, apple, white cherry, citrus zest, minerality, a hint of vanilla, petrol, and floral. Layers of flavor with pear, apple, cherry, citrus, petrol, minerality, floral. Good acidity with a long smooth finish. Really good now but years of life ahead of it.
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12/29/2023 - Anton_Wallin Likes this wine:
Så rent och snyggt med en liten elegant sötma. Precis vad jag förväntade mig!
Så klart fortfarande väldigt ung men definitivt njutbar i denna stund. Paras fint ihop med sojamarinerad laxfisk och fet-starka tillbehör.
Bäst från 2026 och framåt
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12/28/2023 - mikey.s Likes this wine: 89 Points
BYOB choice for Lebanese meal; Nuba Vancouver Dec 23.
Pale yellow-green. Aromas of apple. Orange and honey on the palette. Sweeter than expected for Kabinett, possibly too much to my preferences — but managed well with acidity and nice finish.
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12/15/2023 - Callum's Corkers Likes this wine: 91 Points
Bought for £28.00 The Wine Society UK
alc 8%
N....lovely stone fruit medium intensity, wet river stone, sweet stewed apple, a little roasted nut.
C....pale straw, looks L-Medium body.
T.....lovely clean fruit with a decent mineral streak and lively acid; good length of flavours, a touch of tannin; lovely balance here; plenty of charm and drinkability, a lovely mouth-feel; on the dry side of medium-dry, not actually properly dry. Drinking very well but feels cellar time will be rewarded.
VFMoney?......feels worth around £20 but costs £28.00, so not great value for money.
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12/8/2023 - jvphoto Likes this wine: 92 Points
super charged apple juice
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11/26/2023 - Vinnut Likes this wine: 92 Points
Light pale golden yellow in color. Full, forward & fragrant nose of ripe fruit aromas of sweet peaches, pears & apples with overtones of floral notes of honeysuckle, orange zest, honey, minerals & touch of slate in the background. Medium bodied with a very good concentration of well balanced & smooth texture, zesty, ripe fruit flavors of stone fruits of yellow peaches, apricots & nectarines with citrus notes, honey, spices, chalky & minerals. Very good balance between the sweetness & the firm acidity. Lingering crisp finish. Drinks quite well at present but will develop further with additional aging. Quite rich for a Kabinett. [AP Nr. 2 576 511 12 21; Alc. 8%]
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10/21/2023 - PLLU Likes this wine: 93 Points
Together with a poké sallad with mango. Perfect match between the sweetness in the wine and the good.
Nose: apples, citrus, and apricots and honey.
Palete: fruit driven (lemon, grilled and fresh), green apples, light tough of fresh herbs and florals
High acidity
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10/13/2023 - fussyeater Likes this wine:
Very pale yellow. Nose shows smoke white fruits, there-s perfectly pitched acidity, slightly off dry, great length and energy and I haven't even mentioned the amazing purity. Love this.
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9/15/2023 - RGCM Gananda Likes this wine: 92 Points
Started off with strong green apple along with pear and lime on the nose. White orchard fruits became more and more noticeable as it warmed. Between light and medium bodied (8% ABV) with green apple, evolving to white apple upfront with some pear and white melon highlights. Mid-body has white apple, along with white peach and the beginning of some white tropical notes behind. As other reviewers have noted, this has more depth than might be considered traditional for Kabinett, but I suspect that's the new normal. Excellent acidity on the backside provides structure and tart lime and other citrus notes provide the contrast. Allowing this to slowly warm over two hours showcased the complexity this wine has; quite impressive for a Kabinett. Has quite a long life ahead and I'll to wait until at least Summer 2024 for my next bottle.
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9/6/2023 - drwine2001 wrote:
Herbal nose. Creamy attack, off dry, tart fruit, average acidity, and good slatiness. Rich for Kabinett although the finish is more feathery.
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8/13/2023 - Vas19 wrote: 93 Points
Gets better every day it's open. Gorgeously balanced; fresh, lively but not too simple. Dig it.
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7/22/2023 - Thegreen1985 Likes this wine: 95 Points
German white wine from Mosel: Riesling. 8 % alcohol.
Decanted for one hour prior to consumption and then stored in decanter during the evening.
Light golden/greenish color.
Fresh, sweet and delicate aromas of white flowers, candied pears, wet stones, lemon, honey and minerals. Round, sweet and fresh flavors of candied pears, pineapple, white flowers, lemonade and minerals.
Off-Dry. Medium body. Medium acidity. Excellent balance. Very good structure. Good complexity. Good concentration. Good intensity. Pure.
Very long finish with lemonade and minerals.
An excellent Riesling Kabinett. Balanced, pure and full of minerality. Improves substantially with a few hours of aerating and performs best slightly warmer than fridge temperature. A very good match with food (green curry) and very enjoyable on its own. 95/100
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7/17/2023 - Will Devize wrote: 92 Points
Smoke and marzipan on the nose with spicey lime marmalade on the palate. Feels like it's closed down a little, but still has plenty of grunt and propulsion through to a clean, chalky finish. High quality stuff but feels a little unsettled and blocky at present. This really should be left alone for some time.
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7/5/2023 - stet Likes this wine: 90 Points
Color: light straw
Nose: ripe peach, bitter orange zest, anise, mint, yellow gummy bears, rosemary, octanes
Palate: medium-high acidity, decidedly off-dry but in balance. The body slants light, texturally this is fairly silky. Intensity not incredible, but above the bar
Finish: medium
After six bottles of this, I can only say I adore it and wish I had another 18. This is a ripe kabinett as far as I can tell, not very classic but so very charming. One hour of air out the fridge works here
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5/31/2023 - bml207 Likes this wine:
Double decanted to drive off some spritz immediately before drinking at slightly below cellar temperature. From Grassl Mineralite. Transparent very pale yellow. Nose of pear, satsuma and stone. Palate has lots of fruit at this stage, dominated by apricot notes. Lots of acidity and some mineral notes to bring the Kabinett sweetness into balance. Finishes long with clear fruit notes and acidity. Flavors are very clean and wine is well balanced. Needs time to flesh out of course.
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5/13/2023 - Gas Station Wine Guy Likes this wine: 91 Points
Too young at this point. But this is obviously a wine of pedigree. Perfect balance as always and one for the long haul.
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4/26/2023 - LTTC wrote: 89 Points
(SYP) Honey and jackfruit. A bit too sweet for a Kabinett but with enough acidity and minerality. 89-90
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4/16/2023 - Argrath wrote: 89 Points
(Blind tasting)
Medium-fullish, elegant and delicate nose. Fresh apple, honey and tropical notes of honey-dew. Grapefruit zest and melon.
Off-dry palate with very high acidity. Light-footed, delicate and balanced. Pure and clean, but not overtly complex. Medium finish. Just a hint of petrol.
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4/13/2023 - Joshvoulters Likes this wine: 90 Points
Howard Ripley German Portfolio Tasting (11 Cavendish Square): Very similar to the 2021 vintage but it's a step below in precision and drive. Still good, but you're better off with the younger wine.
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3/13/2023 - IJC Likes this wine:
Delightful.
Still holding to much the same profile as my last tasting notes, a year ago. Perhaps a shade less bite/ intensity, but the nose and floral notes holding steady.
Rated +1 on a scale of -1 to +3.
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3/9/2023 - Pearcebarr wrote: 94 Points
Just as good as last time. This is going to be such a good wine in 10 years.
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2/19/2023 - Richard P Howden wrote: 91 Points
So pretty, light charming and penetrating.
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10/8/2022 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Riesling and Pinot Noir Lunch (Sun Wah - Chicago IL): Double blind at Riesling/ Pinot Noir lunch. Here is a 2020 that managed to already provide pleasure and charm. A bit of spritz took a few minutes to dissipate, but there was lots of balance and even depth, perhaps slightly lacking concentration. Good now, but I expect this will put on weight and improve with cellar time.
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8/16/2022 - Acohen Likes this wine: 92 Points
Crisp and lovely with bright acidity, balance and sweet apricot and tropical notes
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8/13/2022 - bookert wrote: 91 Points
Open and enduring nose. Well balanced even at this age, though elegant in style.
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7/23/2022 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 93 Points
Penny Mordaunt, let me pour a glass of this for you and then we can elope together, just you and me and your faux Thatcherite poison will make three. After a second glass you might even develop a generosity of spirit to match the amplitude of your shape. Maybe. But now, sleeper awake, goodbye to the land of dreams.
This is the kind of wine that can carry you through the world of today; in other words, it is great wine. No, it is almost outstanding wine. Of course, there will be the usual bleating of 'it's sweet', or 'it's too ripe' but these are the cries of those whose imaginations extend to their lawn, children's braces and whether the hedge needs pruning.
If you know and love Mosel then this is bottled sunshine and nectar. I love Prum for the purity of their wine, but this one inhabits a happy place, leaning slightly towards Eva Fricke and Clemens Busch with sheer sex appeal. Here you have clean passionfruit, mandarin, a hint of pear on the nose but then on the palate you get a sense of the richness of apricot, eaten straight off the tree - not heavy and sweet, but alive and rich. Excellent intensity and length and fresh acid that has none of the harshness of Oz Riesling (love them though I do).
I am holding this just short of an outstanding ranking on the CT scale because I think an argument could be made that the finish has just a touch of shortness. it is tough marking but there you are.
I can't really put this down, it is so damned good. The music has to be Mozart, but something about it also leads me to The Cult's 'True Believers'.
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7/3/2022 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Plenty of smoky mineral action to the nose. There's a delicious core of powdered lime. It has some rockmelon too. There's good build and chew and a finish that is fresh, cleansing and long.
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6/28/2022 - CamWheeler wrote: 92 Points
JJ Prum - 2020 range tasting: Lovely aromatic lift on this wine with peach, pear, slate and mandarin - draws you into the wine even at this early stage. The palate is a great mix of bright, pure fruit and a line of acidity that brings it all into focus. A standout in the Kabinett flight today.
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6/10/2022 - wineaficionado Likes this wine: 91 Points
Color:Very pale yellow. Nose: Wet stone, flint stone. Some fruit is lurking in the background. Mouth: Very long. I love the typicity. Very pure and straightforward. Pineapple juice from the can and apples.
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5/22/2022 - Richard P Howden Likes this wine: 91 Points
A charmer, good balance, delicious. My first of this vintage and the Kabs are genuine & lovely. Not as deep perhaps as the ‘19 but a solid vintage. Classy.
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5/3/2022 - FiggySmalls wrote:
following last note: a light effervescence perks up the mouthfeel. even if the wine has gone to sleep, it's rather low acid and round.
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4/25/2022 - JJYoyo Likes this wine: 89 Points
In a tasting with 3 Prum Kabinetts: Graacher Himmelreich, Bernkasteler Badstube and Wehlener Sonnenuhr. From memory so no extensive notes. All three were sweeter than I expected. The Berkasteler was the most tightly wound, quite linear and lemony. The GH was the most interesting and complex, at this point the clear winner. The WS was not really integrated and also seemed lacking in acidity and had a little too much richness. The tasting also had Spaets and Auslese - in the Auslese especially the ripeness of the WS was much better balanced with high acidity, so this relative flabbiness is not a problem for all WS levels in 2020, just the Kabinett
Score:89. Relative to expectations: - but only for the Kabinett, the WS Spats is quite a bit nicer while the Aus is glorious and actually tastes less sweet than the Kabinett because it has a massive acidic backbone to it.
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4/18/2022 - FiggySmalls wrote:
For 2020 WS and GH, side by side, I'm not getting what some others are. But, I guess that's the point of notes.
Both the GH and WS strike me as less weighty than 2019. These are both quite clear while 2019's were almost deep golden with green tinge.
GH is not hitting me with the cool steeliness I've perceived before. Rather, mere high acid and medium- lemon/green apple alongside mild+ savory riesling characteristics. Not distinctive but winemaking stands out. Closed on the nose but seems less open than the WS on account of fruit expression. Pleasant.
WS has an intense dried apricot /cooked applesauce vs "lemon" and this just pops out more. Maybe aided by the effervescence which isn't present in the GH. Tons of saline. Very pleasant. Distinctive but not exciting.
Neither is "closed" for early drinking but neither is rocking in the grand scheme. Corks were very tight but GH had mold under capsule already=lol
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4/15/2022 - chibaken wrote: 93 Points
Chameleon nose: crab apple, mango, a whiff of smoke, green citrus, but never at once. Lean and crystal pure, the sweetness extremely restrained given the 8% abv, with an uplifting frissante finish. But it's the chalky minerality that shines here, gripping everything together. I get his with ales from Sussex; that limestone dryness that is so addictive. Marvellous juice.
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1/20/2022 - IJC Likes this wine:
Refreshing. Bright sweet fruit (kaleidoscopic in nature: melon, citrus, green apple, Anjou pear), just enough acidity to provide "bite" plus a touch of frissante, light in alcohol, intense in flavor, with a surprisingly long lasting aftertaste.
Rated +1 on a scale of -1 to +3.
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1/3/2022 - Russell Faulkner wrote:
The BB was really floral and juicy, the GH open with more stuffing. WS is much more steely. Plums and berries, super moreish. This has a much deeper core, no exhibitionism here, great strength and tension though. Will be a cracker.
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9/9/2021 - NickA Likes this wine: 92 Points
The Prüm 2020s with Howard Ripley Wines (Zoom!): Almost as pale as the GH Kab, but without the spritz. More amplitude on the nose, with the same tropical fruit but here the undertone is more honeyed, with a muskiness to it. Really quite attractive. On the palate the wine again shows a mineral raciness, with green apple and a real juicy chew as well as a slight pepperiness towards the finish. Feels very clean and crisp, like a dry cider. Complex and refreshing.
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