1999 Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  11/9/2019 - steinersing wrote: 93 Points

  Just so elegant and poised - a great late night drink

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  5/4/2019 - berlinhotel Likes this wine: 95 Points

  AP 24/00

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  10/17/2011 - Le Musigny wrote:

  Auction bottling. This is very young and will require years for it to evolve into what will be a spectacular wine. Sweet with good minerality and citrus flavors.

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  11/5/2010 - Papies wrote: 93 Points

  Lanessan Re-United at Chez Papies, London: From half bottle. Always a joy to try this wine. Lots of petrol textbook riesling on the nose. Medium body, well balanced and sweetness is in check. Complex, elegant. We have 1 more and we will not touch it for 5yr at least.

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  10/30/2010 - sweetstuff wrote: 93 Points

  AP 2 576 511 24 00; Rudi Weist Cellars International, Carlsbad, CA. $93/375 ml/3; $31/375 ml. 7.5 pabv. Cork removed with an Ah-So on spec; very clean and nice cork. A fair amount of heavy cryrstalline Weinstein deposit noted on double decanting. Still has a touch of spritz, but very little.
  
  This wine is gem-like and refractive with apparently very high extract. As a matter of fact, glass-coating without any sheeting
  
  Initially quite reduced and dieselly, but blows off with some swirling, showing some Prüm yeasty reduction still apparent (I'd call this an old-style wine from this house that apparently never saw any racking). There is a creamy note to the nose but the paydirt is the beautiful honeyed peach and fresh apricot and hint of smokiness, with tea and mint showing on the high register. Not a great deal of heavy botrytis for a Goldkapsule. The sweetness is already starting to moderate; actually went well with Japanese half-dried snapper and other nibbles at Sakai, Troy, OH.
  
  Tea and lacquer with a hint of bitterness; sweet tea and citric tannins, and a great amount of tea on the finish. Lissome in the mouth and very satisfying. Not bad at all for being only 11 years old. Could mature some more and hold for another 10 years. Has fine integration and expressiveness. As the bottle is emptied, a great sailing impression of white tea and apricots shows that this is a very great wine, with incredible finesse and subtlety, as is so for many the best of these Prüm Sonnenuhrs. Drink now to 2021 plus.

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