2016 Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett

Community Tasting Notes (49) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  4/6/2024 - lvjohn Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Very similar impressions to the 1/31/2024 bottle. Great stuff!

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  3/22/2024 - jlm wrote:

  Lovely nose with floral notes, white stone fruit, and cream. The palate is broad in its presentation, with soft velvety fruit texture and subtle sweetness spreading on the palate. I can see why others have commented on the lower acidity of this wine, and it's true that it doesn't have a bracing acidic spine. But there is a subtle and well integrated lift that keeps this feeling fresh. And the wine has excellent mid-palate focus on the finish, with flavors of peach skin and citrus pith, along with a hint of bitterness, stretching out with impressive length.

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  3/13/2024 - ppmm wrote:

  Bought a six-pack of this shortly before being separated from my cellar for several years (no, the feds were not involved) which was a good way to enforce self-restraint, except now I can't recall anything I read about it at the time. But who cares? This is excellent. Old dark residue on the top of the cork but the rest is clean and solid. At first sip, damn if this doesn't smell and taste just like a ripe white nectarine, explosively flavorful and summer-sweet, wrapped around a laser beam of acidity. The initial power softens with time in the glass, which lets the midpalate transition to wet rocks and petrol (just a little, and for me, only on the finish) come into clearer view. I don't follow Prüm every vintage so can't make super specific comparisons (I have some 2015s I also haven't opened), but as a few others have noted, this does seem a little weightier than the Kabs I remember from a decade-plus earlier, which isn't surprising. But I think this is balanced and will keep shedding fat as it develops, and it's very early days.

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  3/2/2024 - Lehto Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Soaked cork as usual with Prüm! Color had almost not turned just a slightly bit golden at this point. Pale straw and greenish tint.
  
  Before going into specific notes, I think the style of Prüm is lacking some acidity for my personal preference. For sweet-sweet wines they are definitely among the absolute elite, but I felt this drank more like a Spätlese than a Kabinett for my taste. I love that high-high acidity!
  
  Nose was just absolutely stunning. Both ripe and unripe pineapple, apricot, elderflower, ripe white peach and a very slight hint of citrus fruits.
  
  Palate also showed the same notes of pineapple, apricot, white peach and elderflower but was lacking a bit on the lemon/lime that I love so much. Slightly candied/honeyed with some grapefruit, citrus zest and a hit of petroleum - all which added a slight bitter touch to go along with the sweetness. Personally lacking some more freshness and acidity, but this is still such a well-made Riesling!

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  1/31/2024 - lvjohn Likes this wine: 95 Points

  One of the best Riesling's I've ever tasted. Pure, precise, not very sweet with lime notes as well as white fruit richness. Such wonderful beauty does not come along very often.

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