2002 Joh. Jos. Prüm Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spätlese

Community Tasting Notes (41) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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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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