Community Tasting Note

• sweetstuff wrote: 93 points

  February 13, 2018 - 2016 Joh. Jos. Prüm Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese, this one AP 09 17; 7.5 pabv; $56/750 ml; Dorothy Lane Market, Oakwood, OH. ; Rudi Weist Cellars International, Importer;. Coravin; le Taster. Quite neutral straw color; some spritz, wtih broken sheeting.
  
  Muscle-flexing grapefruit fizzies, with typical Prüm reductive wool fat or lanolin of this era, underlain by delicate and sweet white fruit floral note, all of which will be taken account of by anyone who's ever tasted Joh Jos Prüm..
  
  Both fully sweet and vividly juicy entry, light -bodied; starting a little weak in the center, but will come on strong once the aeration is done, as it does. Very nice bitter almond and sweet-bitter orange oil, like a Muscato d'Asti on steroids. Now it's showing off, with some rustic white-wine tannins and very mild cigarette tobacco smoke and apparent hints of cilantro and chervil emerging. After two hours the shoulders get bigger and the fruit more powerful, and a few slices of Jarlsberg are added to its benefit and ours. bringing out walnut notes. In my opinion ot a bad, actually quite a fine early-drinking Auslese for this house; also could be given a 5-7 year cellaring window and used as a table wine. 92-93/100 RPP. Drink now-2025, but plenty of room still to grow.
  
  2/20/2018 Retaste of Coravined bottle at one week: still a little spritz; grapefruit is more muted but there is a beautiful, umami-guilded ginger ale note in nose and on palate that may have been hiding underneath it. Still snappy acidity well-balanced to fruity sweetness and better integrated. So although this wine is drinkable in its baby fat stage, there's little to fear from cellaring it further. 93/100

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