Candie's Big 4-0 (Spoon & Stable, Mpls, MN): Lovely medium gold color. Drank a glass over an hour. Looking back my last note on this was from 1/2/11. Now 12 years later, the wine is like it was sealed in a time capsule and never changed. My notes are very similar. Ripe, with almost a sense of tingling effervescence, tropical, ripe peach, golden apple, pineapple, still taught with great acidity and freshness, slate minerality, very tangy, mild fusil, very long. Fantastic! 94+ to 95pts.
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[1st of 12 bottles] Very solid aged JJ Prum riesling. Tasting notes from memory: Nose of spices, honey, and dried apricots and peaches. On palette, beeswax, honey, slight oak notes, spices, ripe orchard fruit and dried stone fruit. There is a tannin drying effect on the long finish. Not too sweet as the sugar is well integrated.
As of now, still an excellent aged Spatlese of 20 years, but a step behind the 2002 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spatlese and the 2004 Graacher Himmelreich Auslese. The purity in fruit was not as pronounced, but perhaps the other bottles may show better. 91-92 pts
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So good after 18 years. Stored in my cellar since release. I'm rating it higher than the critics did. It's rich, complex, and flawless, but still youthful. I bet it could go another 10-15 years easy. It's better now than its predecessors I enjoyed in their youth. Magic for the money.
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The cork was a little crumbley but came out fine with an Ah Soh There was just a touch of secondary fermentation as there was a little bit of bubbles on pouring. Still had all the wonderful flavors of this wine; peaches tangerines honey. But just enough to affect the pureness of the flavor. But once it blew off it was fabulous. As wonderful as these wines are in youth, they do become special as they age.
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Nose of passionfruit, green apples, honey, and a little citrus & banana. The palate has all of the same rich flavors, starting with green apple, adding minerality with citrus and pear with honey, then a hint of those tropical fruits on a very long finish. Decent acidity that gets more noticeable towards the finish. There's a little petrol in the background that also becomes slightly stronger on the finish. This gets better after a few hours as the petrol fades.
As I've recently said on the forums, my wife and I would be perfectly happy drinking no other Riesling but Graacher Himmelreich from JJ Prüm for the rest of our existence.
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I can't say that I have had many Prums that I have felt were ready right out of the bottle, but this is one that is perfectly singing right now. bananas and hazelnuts on the nose. Good concentration on the palate with pears, lychee and some marzipan. Superb length and elegance. Bravo!
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taste: light bodied with real lovely feel and noticeable medium/high acidity. There is freshness to the tones of guava, white fruits, pears and minerals.
overall: This is still drinking young, but in a very fun place. Very enjoyable and a good way to end the evening
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Doesn't seem too different from any of the really young Prums I've had recently; the fruit's still incredibly primary and fresh and augmented by fresh floral notes, a slatey mineral base and a light sulfury note. There's bright acidity underneath that balances the sweetness well, a long mouthwatering finish but this is still a baby and has a lot of time left.
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Didn't hit the highs of the bottle I opened last winter. Still good, nice salty finish but not the golden depths of flavor I was hoping for since I new the hosts had a spicy shrimp dish planned. However, in hind sight I'd say this bottle was drunk too young. Was perhaps just a bit tights. Whereas the other bottle, purchased from the same source was rocking from the first sip, this was more reserved.
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Paired well with a lovely Malaysian shrimp sambal. Check out http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-03-09/entertainment/sc-food-0304-malaysia-20110309_1_spice-trade-star-anise-malaysians/2
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Tasting Menu at Meritage (Meritage, St. Paul): Lovely deep gold color. Nose is citrus, pineapple, meyer lemon, mild petrol, mineral. Beautiful on the palate, lushious in the mouth, citrus, meyer lemon, pineapple, honey, crisp acidity, impeccable balance. Very long finish.
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Glad I stashed a few of these as it is drinking wonderfully now. Very well balanced with a little sweetness, nice acidity and a dash of petrol. Actually paired pretty well with turkey/boudin sausage. Very refreshing and picks up the palate.
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Killer, pristine condition and great sweet profile. Very emblematic of the vintage. Full flavored with enough acidity to make it refreshing. A deliberate match against the Capital Grille's spicy calamari preparation and that was an excellent pairing. Big golden apple flavors, on the sweeter side of Spat and a pleasure to drink. I think this is best drunk now as the primary flavors are so enticing.
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Shut down straight out of the cellar at 52 degrees F. After warming up for two hours this showed orange, tangerine, tangerine peel, and hints of grapefruit, honeydew, lychee, white cherries, strawberry, and petrol. Wonderful minerality takes over on the long finish. Good to go now if warm and decanted. Served with a Paul Prudhomme black beans & andouille recipe, Indian rice spiced with tumeric, cinnamon, and cloves, and fried chicken.
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Light gold. Nose of floral, honey, minerals and peaches. The wine is perfectly balanced with the combo of sweet and sour. The flavors of honey, minerals, peach and pear are amazing and the finish is really long adding a butter scotch element. Drink now or hold for 5 years.
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Pale straw-yellow to the eye. lemons,pears,some exotic fruits, good minerality. Forward on the nose (and a lovely nose indeed) but would have preferred some more acidity to be honest. Well balanced vs sweetness and it feels just right to be drank now. Great on a warm London summer night. Shame we dont have more of this.. the wine and the warm london nights!
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I thought at first this wine was going to be oxidized as the cork had a little leak. Drinking well with peach, petrol, minerals, and spices. Tried this with Thai food and went really well.
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Drinking beautifully now, caramelized pineapple, lemons, melon, wet stone, petrol. Matched the thai curry noodles perfectly. Enough acidity to stand up but balanced to the flavors, really nice. Nice weight on the palate, smells beautiful. The only thing lacking is the finish, it is short but everything else is brilliant. I wish I had more.
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JJ Prum 83 - 2003 and More (Scott Worcester's in Southwest Harbor, ME): Showing a pale yellow in the glass with mild scents of petrol, lemon, and mineral. Flavors of lemon, mineral, lime, and a light hint of white grapefruit linger nicely on a very focused 30+ second finish. This was quite a surprise, almost like a trocken riesling in it's focus, acidity, and slightly off-dry finish.
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Bright green apple and pear on the nose and palate, the mid-palate carries a slight butteriness and spiciness, moving toward cooked apple in the finish. Still a baby, the acidity still sings. Shorter acidic finish. I really enjoyed this but it needs more time I think.
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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 1, 04, and 05 versions of this wine. This was my 3rd favorite of the flight and showed a hint of petrol and nice minerality.
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Thanksgiving dinner - perhaps a bit of a challenge for a wine with such delicacy, but I had expected more. It is elegant, structured, complex with a long finish. Very nice grapefruit, apricot, mineral. Long finish. The wine however didn't measure up to the meal.
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Bad timing. Drank after a 96 VT Pinot Gris and this tasted bland. I am sure it is a better wine than it showed tonight, probably somewhat closed as well.
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A classic Spatlese from the Mosel that presents the full array of these wonderful grapes. A lovely floral nose and a crisp, acidic mouthwatering flavor profile complete with a hint of slate and minerality. An excellent wine.
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Drunk over two nights- on night one this was pleasant enough, but not showing a lot, some interesting tropical notes and a touvh of stoniness. Vacu-vined in the fridge for a night- night two, this is significantly better- and explosion of grapefruit, pear and melon on the nose- the palate shows excellent minerality, persistance and wet stones. very good wine.
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Can't seem to keep my hands off these and give them the cellar time (or even decanting) that they probably deserve. The Prum wines consistently give me the impression that there's always more lurking underneath as I get just hints of all the fruit and complexity hidden within. On this night, I got hints of key lime pie, powdered sugar, lemon and chalk in the nose with a nice sharp and focused mouthfeel. The wine was not as sweet on the palate as I remember, perhaps an indicator that it's beginning a new phase in its development.
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It has an ordinary golden Riesling color, fresh nose, some light spritz, pear on the palate with the expected Spätlese sweetness level and a touch of grapefruit on the finish. It also shares the reticence I’ve seen in the 2002 vintage compared to the utter flamboyance of 2001. However, this is not the very correct but boring wine my description might make it out to be. What a dry description does not communicate is the superb balance and integration to be found here. Everything is in precise proportion and seamless. It should age very well should you prefer mature Riesling to drinking it early.
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Nose of citrus, mineral and stone. Slight pear as well. Initial attack of citrus and pear, even some exotic notes such as pineapple. Signature Prum depth of fruit and superb balance. Fruit layering and complexity in mid-palate, moderately long finish. Lovely young, but clearly has all the stuffing needed to go the distance.
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3/11/2023 - rocknroller wrote: 95 Points
Candie's Big 4-0 (Spoon & Stable, Mpls, MN): Lovely medium gold color. Drank a glass over an hour. Looking back my last note on this was from 1/2/11. Now 12 years later, the wine is like it was sealed in a time capsule and never changed. My notes are very similar. Ripe, with almost a sense of tingling effervescence, tropical, ripe peach, golden apple, pineapple, still taught with great acidity and freshness, slate minerality, very tangy, mild fusil, very long. Fantastic! 94+ to 95pts.
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9/16/2022 - Michael Hung Likes this wine: 92 Points
[1st of 12 bottles]
Very solid aged JJ Prum riesling. Tasting notes from memory: Nose of spices, honey, and dried apricots and peaches. On palette, beeswax, honey, slight oak notes, spices, ripe orchard fruit and dried stone fruit. There is a tannin drying effect on the long finish. Not too sweet as the sugar is well integrated.
As of now, still an excellent aged Spatlese of 20 years, but a step behind the 2002 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spatlese and the 2004 Graacher Himmelreich Auslese. The purity in fruit was not as pronounced, but perhaps the other bottles may show better. 91-92 pts
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7/23/2020 - Montesquieu Likes this wine: 94 Points
So good after 18 years. Stored in my cellar since release. I'm rating it higher than the critics did. It's rich, complex, and flawless, but still youthful. I bet it could go another 10-15 years easy. It's better now than its predecessors I enjoyed in their youth. Magic for the money.
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5/14/2020 - JS1056 wrote: 90 Points
The cork was a little crumbley but came out fine with an Ah Soh
There was just a touch of secondary fermentation as there was a little bit of bubbles on pouring. Still had all the wonderful flavors of this wine; peaches tangerines honey. But just enough to affect the pureness of the flavor. But once it blew off it was fabulous.
As wonderful as these wines are in youth, they do become special as they age.
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8/1/2017 - pren wrote: 89 Points
Good
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9/16/2016 - CranBurgundy Likes this wine: 92 Points
Nose of passionfruit, green apples, honey, and a little citrus & banana. The palate has all of the same rich flavors, starting with green apple, adding minerality with citrus and pear with honey, then a hint of those tropical fruits on a very long finish. Decent acidity that gets more noticeable towards the finish. There's a little petrol in the background that also becomes slightly stronger on the finish. This gets better after a few hours as the petrol fades.
As I've recently said on the forums, my wife and I would be perfectly happy drinking no other Riesling but Graacher Himmelreich from JJ Prüm for the rest of our existence.
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5/30/2015 - Eric wrote:
Riesling rendezvous (Bern, Switzerland): Heavy sulphur, but despite that this is lovely, salty and powerful.
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11/27/2014 - gmbdds wrote: 91 Points
A graceful wine with petrol notes that are just enough to give character and lead into honey and lime and a fine finish.
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3/9/2014 - pifcho Likes this wine: 93 Points
I can't say that I have had many Prums that I have felt were ready right out of the bottle, but this is one that is perfectly singing right now. bananas and hazelnuts on the nose. Good concentration on the palate with pears, lychee and some marzipan. Superb length and elegance. Bravo!
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9/17/2012 - KeithAkers wrote: 92 Points
A small 2002 Bordeaux Retrospective (Maude's Liquor Bar, Chicago IL): nose: very fresh and balanced on the nose with tones of guava, white fruits, pears, green apples and some nice slatey mineral tones. Open, but still youthful on the nose.
taste: light bodied with real lovely feel and noticeable medium/high acidity. There is freshness to the tones of guava, white fruits, pears and minerals.
overall: This is still drinking young, but in a very fun place. Very enjoyable and a good way to end the evening
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7/29/2012 - lvjohn wrote: 92 Points
Really lovely wine.
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12/11/2011 - salil wrote: 92 Points
Doesn't seem too different from any of the really young Prums I've had recently; the fruit's still incredibly primary and fresh and augmented by fresh floral notes, a slatey mineral base and a light sulfury note. There's bright acidity underneath that balances the sweetness well, a long mouthwatering finish but this is still a baby and has a lot of time left.
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8/28/2011 - btock wrote: 90 Points
Didn't hit the highs of the bottle I opened last winter. Still good, nice salty finish but not the golden depths of flavor I was hoping for since I new the hosts had a spicy shrimp dish planned. However, in hind sight I'd say this bottle was drunk too young. Was perhaps just a bit tights. Whereas the other bottle, purchased from the same source was rocking from the first sip, this was more reserved.
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4/2/2011 - suttonri wrote:
Paired well with a lovely Malaysian shrimp sambal. Check out http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-03-09/entertainment/sc-food-0304-malaysia-20110309_1_spice-trade-star-anise-malaysians/2
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1/2/2011 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points
Tasting Menu at Meritage (Meritage, St. Paul): Lovely deep gold color. Nose is citrus, pineapple, meyer lemon, mild petrol, mineral. Beautiful on the palate, lushious in the mouth, citrus, meyer lemon, pineapple, honey, crisp acidity, impeccable balance. Very long finish.
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11/26/2010 - tbone wrote:
Glad I stashed a few of these as it is drinking wonderfully now. Very well balanced with a little sweetness, nice acidity and a dash of petrol. Actually paired pretty well with turkey/boudin sausage. Very refreshing and picks up the palate.
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11/23/2010 - btock wrote: 92 Points
Killer, pristine condition and great sweet profile. Very emblematic of the vintage. Full flavored with enough acidity to make it refreshing. A deliberate match against the Capital Grille's spicy calamari preparation and that was an excellent pairing. Big golden apple flavors, on the sweeter side of Spat and a pleasure to drink. I think this is best drunk now as the primary flavors are so enticing.
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11/21/2010 - rocknroller wrote: 92 Points
Cab's at the Capital Grille (Minneapolis): Petrol, peaches, Crisp, vibrant acidity, minerals. Wonderful wine.
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10/26/2010 - 3daywinereview.com wrote: 92 Points
Really drinking well right now with spice, slate, orange, peach and combines a nice mixture of sweet and sour. I would drink this now.
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9/10/2010 - suttonri wrote: 93 Points
Shut down straight out of the cellar at 52 degrees F. After warming up for two hours this showed orange, tangerine, tangerine peel, and hints of grapefruit, honeydew, lychee, white cherries, strawberry, and petrol. Wonderful minerality takes over on the long finish. Good to go now if warm and decanted. Served with a Paul Prudhomme black beans & andouille recipe, Indian rice spiced with tumeric, cinnamon, and cloves, and fried chicken.
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8/12/2010 - 3daywinereview.com wrote: 93 Points
Light gold. Nose of floral, honey, minerals and peaches. The wine is perfectly balanced with the combo of sweet and sour. The flavors of honey, minerals, peach and pear are amazing and the finish is really long adding a butter scotch element. Drink now or hold for 5 years.
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8/6/2010 - galewskj wrote: 91 Points
Lovely nose of sweetness, fruit, minerality and crispness. Almost as good to drink. Could use a little more mineral taste. Still, very enjoyable.
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7/1/2010 - Papies wrote: 90 Points
Pale straw-yellow to the eye. lemons,pears,some exotic fruits, good minerality. Forward on the nose (and a lovely nose indeed) but would have preferred some more acidity to be honest. Well balanced vs sweetness and it feels just right to be drank now. Great on a warm London summer night. Shame we dont have more of this.. the wine and the warm london nights!
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1/25/2010 - kenthargis wrote: 92 Points
Very tasty. Such wonderful notes of peach and pear. Lovely mouthfeel. Great acidity that will help this last for years and years.
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11/26/2009 - 3daywinereview.com wrote: 91 Points
I thought at first this wine was going to be oxidized as the cork had a little leak. Drinking well with peach, petrol, minerals, and spices. Tried this with Thai food and went really well.
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10/29/2009 - gripNsip wrote: 91 Points
Drinking beautifully now, caramelized pineapple, lemons, melon, wet stone, petrol. Matched the thai curry noodles perfectly. Enough acidity to stand up but balanced to the flavors, really nice. Nice weight on the palate, smells beautiful. The only thing lacking is the finish, it is short but everything else is brilliant. I wish I had more.
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8/3/2009 - Kirk Grant wrote: 91 Points
JJ Prum 83 - 2003 and More (Scott Worcester's in Southwest Harbor, ME): Showing a pale yellow in the glass with mild scents of petrol, lemon, and mineral. Flavors of lemon, mineral, lime, and a light hint of white grapefruit linger nicely on a very focused 30+ second finish. This was quite a surprise, almost like a trocken riesling in it's focus, acidity, and slightly off-dry finish.
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4/9/2009 - gripNsip wrote: 90 Points
Bright green apple and pear on the nose and palate, the mid-palate carries a slight butteriness and spiciness, moving toward cooked apple in the finish. Still a baby, the acidity still sings. Shorter acidic finish. I really enjoyed this but it needs more time I think.
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12/16/2008 - i musicisti di boston wrote:
Beautiful- elegant, balanced. Lovely crisp honeyed minerality. Better on day 2
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12/3/2007 - drcbarroso wrote: 89 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 1, 04, and 05 versions of this wine. This was my 3rd favorite of the flight and showed a hint of petrol and nice minerality.
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11/23/2007 - dbarco wrote: 90 Points
Thanksgiving dinner - perhaps a bit of a challenge for a wine with such delicacy, but I had expected more. It is elegant, structured, complex with a long finish. Very nice grapefruit, apricot, mineral. Long finish. The wine however didn't measure up to the meal.
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8/9/2007 - vintage61 wrote: 89 Points
Bad timing. Drank after a 96 VT Pinot Gris and this tasted bland. I am sure it is a better wine than it showed tonight, probably somewhat closed as well.
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3/27/2007 - air guitar & pinot noir wrote: 90 Points
A classic Spatlese from the Mosel that presents the full array of these wonderful grapes. A lovely floral nose and a crisp, acidic mouthwatering flavor profile complete with a hint of slate and minerality. An excellent wine.
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10/2/2006 - winenutnyc wrote:
Drunk over two nights- on night one this was pleasant enough, but not showing a lot, some interesting tropical notes and a touvh of stoniness. Vacu-vined in the fridge for a night- night two, this is significantly better- and explosion of grapefruit, pear and melon on the nose- the palate shows excellent minerality, persistance and wet stones. very good wine.
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7/30/2006 - kstoddard wrote: flawed
Heat damaged
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6/18/2005 - prafferty wrote: 90 Points
Can't seem to keep my hands off these and give them the cellar time (or even decanting) that they probably deserve. The Prum wines consistently give me the impression that there's always more lurking underneath as I get just hints of all the fruit and complexity hidden within. On this night, I got hints of key lime pie, powdered sugar, lemon and chalk in the nose with a nice sharp and focused mouthfeel. The wine was not as sweet on the palate as I remember, perhaps an indicator that it's beginning a new phase in its development.
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9/5/2004 - whostler wrote:
It has an ordinary golden Riesling color, fresh nose, some light spritz, pear on the palate with the expected Spätlese sweetness level and a touch of grapefruit on the finish. It also shares the reticence I’ve seen in the 2002 vintage compared to the utter flamboyance of 2001. However, this is not the very correct but boring wine my description might make it out to be. What a dry description does not communicate is the superb balance and integration to be found here. Everything is in precise proportion and seamless. It should age very well should you prefer mature Riesling to drinking it early.
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8/1/2004 - winefool wrote: 91 Points
Evidence of tiny bubbles. Medium aroma of slate and mineral. Rich mouthfeel and flavors of carmelized white fruit and petrol/mineral. 8/04
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7/18/2004 - dk_lulu wrote:
Nose of citrus, mineral and stone. Slight pear as well. Initial attack of citrus and pear, even some exotic notes such as pineapple. Signature Prum depth of fruit and superb balance. Fruit layering and complexity in mid-palate, moderately long finish. Lovely young, but clearly has all the stuffing needed to go the distance.
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6/1/2004 - winefool wrote: 90 Points
Hints of sulpher and CO2. Full rich white fruit on the palate with a thick aftertaste. Drinking fine, but will improve with a couple years. 6/04
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