2005 Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese

Community Tasting Notes (145) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  3/13/2024 - devraj Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Light golden yellow in color. Gorgeous aromas of ripe peaches, lemon cream soda, orange zest, petrol (that blows off over time), wet slate and florals. Quite intense on the palate with floral and spicy waves of creamy yellow/orange citrus, crushed peaches, good acidity and a very long honeyed aftertaste. Only small nit is that this bottle came across a slightly more flabby (less acid impact) than the previous one.

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  2/4/2024 - Collector1855 wrote: 95 Points

  During a GE/AUT blind tasting. We had the 1996, 2005 and 2007 in a flight next to each other. All of them showed really well. The 1996 had the most complex tertiary nose with lots of Lychee aromas, the 2005 was the richest, with lots of layers of lemon and yellow fruit and the 2007 the lightest with the most precision. It was really a matter of taste which one you liked the most. I scored all of them 95-96. Spätlese at its best.

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  2/3/2024 - J_H Likes this wine: 95 Points

  - Blind, GE/AUT tasting
  - Three Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spätlese were served.
  
  1996:
  - floral, quince, honey but so lean and simply elegant and so complex but still precise. Has enough fullness and sweetness but balanced with a great acidity. Probably one of the best white wines I have drunk so far.
  - 96p
  
  2005:
  - Riper and more quince and honey, more body and beautiful stony flavours. Compared to the other two, the most intense Prüm.
  - 95p
  
  2007:
  - Aroma profile similar to the other two but leanest and most precise.
  - 94p

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  9/3/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points

  During a merchant walkabout tasting, so only brief impressions. Beautiful aromas of white fruit, camomile, citrus. A little richer than the Graacher Himmelreich (95+) which had the edge today.

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  8/16/2023 - acyso wrote: 95 Points

  Dinner at Chengdu Impression (Chicago, IL): This just seems to be getting better and better. Primordially young, this doesn't show 18 years whatsoever. It's light and crisp, more sweet and fruity than you would expect for a Prüm of that era, and drinking deliciously. It's obvious there is plenty of long-term potential here, but with the secondary characteristics still yet to emerge, you can somehow still enjoy an 18-year-old riesling in the throes of youth.

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