Riesling bash at CHIKO (Chevy Chase, Maryland): I wish I had more time with this, but it was beautiful. Dense and rich a full tropical appeal but the taut, racy acidity and crunchy minerals give this a brisk, lip-smacking feeling. Lovely, with so much life ahead.
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Fascinating side-by-side with this and the goldkap auslese. They are dramatically different. This one comes across crunchy, mostly dry, with an angular cut and more evolved flavors, several shades darker in complexion flavorwise than the auslese and if not at peak maturity certainly knocking at the door of it.
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PnP - This wine rocks! My last bottle and it was glorious! Nose showed lots of honeysuckle, stone fruit, and tropical fruits, along with some sea shell and sulphur. The palate was equally expressive with lots of stone fruits (peaches and nectarines, with a little apricot) some apple, pear and hints of pineapple and Meyers lemon coupled with minerality from flint, limestone and oysters. The mouthfeel was spectacular with enough acidity to counteract the sweetness. Also, there was the feeling of effervescence as the golden liquid cascaded down the tongue and finished with a sweet, waxy mouthfeel, like a semi-sweet honeycomb. 95+ and I wish I had more! I can't wait for my 2016s to get some more age on them!
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Consistent with my prior note. This is a legend. Everything I look for in wine. This is lithe yet with crazy concentration. Complex yet spherical. It has fine minerals and real depth. Spellbinding.
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Purchased on release in 2002/2003. Drank on New Year's Eve and shared with family in small amounts. Just a fabulous wine ready to go upon opening. Pale yellow on day one still looking young but not infantile. Still plenty of acidity but wonderfully balanced. The family that was not used to this level of wine was astonished. I'm glad I have a couple more of these 01's as well as some of the GKA.
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I have had this wine on several occasions and it is always impressive. This is my personal favorite wine and vintage. The word that comes to mind to me is balance. This wine is super lively for a 20+ year old wine. The acidity and sweetness are perfectly intertwined. I am not great at specific flavor profiles, but I would say tropical fruits, a small custard background, and citrus notes are all present. The petrol note of a good mosel wine is also there which I like. The wine was a pale yellow. Not crystal clear like a young kabinett and not golden yellow like a sauternes. All in all I would say if you see a bottle of 2001 with good provenance, pick it up. It is drinking wonderfully now and has tons of life left for extended cellaring.
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Medium-light golden yellow in color. Full, forward and attractive nose of ripe fruit aromas of apples, pineapple, mangoes & citric notes of lemons/limes, with overtones of floral notes of honeysuckle & mineral notes, slate, orange peel, honey & a hint of petrol notes in the background. Medium bodied, with a very good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, ripe fruit flavors of honeyed dried apricots, sweet yellow peaches, grapefruit & green apples with some honey, lemon curd & orange marmalade, coconut, minerals & slate. Long lingering & crisp finish. Drinks quite well at 22 years of age & should develop further with additional aging. Fill was well into neck; cork was clean & intact. [AR Nr. 2 576 511 19 02; Alc. 7.5%] An absolutely remarkable wine which shows no signs of its age.
Half bottle. Healthy full yellow color. Warm spice, herbs, and orchard fruit but no secondary aromas at all. Richer and heftier feel than I expected. Spätlese level sweetness. Apple jelly, cinnamon, and a more exotic fruit component that accompanies a slate-filled finish. This was impressively fresh but somewhat simple and lacked some snap. Beautifully pure fruit but I was hoping for a little more excitement and tension.
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-- tasted non-blind over a couple hours on Day 1; revisited on Day 4 --
Everything about this is "young for a 22 yo wine." Youthful color, Nose, and Palate. An elegant Auslese. Medium-light to medium petrol note; concentrated apricot and tangerine flavor. Truly marvelous, and now possibly in its Prime Window, where I suspect it will stay for at least another decade.
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Jason's btl for our German, Alsace & Loire dinner in St Paul MN ( Pot hole capital of the US & apparently where snow removal is not high on Mayor Carter's list ). 12 of us gathered for an admirable assortment of Reisling & decent Thai. This was clearly WOTN for me! From the standpoint of weight, purity, elegance and overall harmony this reminded me not a little bit of Taittinger Comte obviously with less effervescence but in terms of sheer class & elegances, very Comte & Dom P like. And, with the lovely Mosel spritz, its in the ballpark of Comte:). Loved it precision coupled with a real sense of mature placidity! This must be a well stored btl as the color was very pale gold and it youthfulness points to more fireworks to come. Just a superb white wine! And, I appreciated that it was less rich & showed only a hint of precise sweetness. The 2001 vintage looks very impressive based on this one btl!
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Nuits-Saint-Georges and Riesling - Q by Peter Chang (Q by Peter Chang - Bethesda, Maryland): This hasn’t developed much since I last had it in 2015. Expressive nose displaying perfectly ripe succulent white and yellow fruit, white and yellow peach, lemon curd, lemon oil, coconut, honey, white flowers and limestone. Excellent concentration, beautifully layered perfectly ripe yellow and white fruit, a hint of fizz, perfect balance and precision, incredible finesse, bright acidity, strong mineral, and a seamless long perfectly ripe yellow and white fruit driven finish. The has the airy texture of a Chevalier Montrachet.
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Breathtaking. This is firmly in the Pantheon: it has become everything one could ever hope for from a Mosel Riesling. It has a layers of concentrated Riesling fruit with an attractive mineral backsplash. This is bright and spherical and almost completely weightless. It is still sweet but the sugar is so seamlessly integrated that the visceral impression is just of perfectly ripe fruit. As hard as it is to believe, I'd bet this will be even better in another decade, and perhaps better yet in two.
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Deep gold. Sweetness & distinctive petrol on the nose indicative of German Riesling. Honey, brown sugar, bees wax, syrup on the palate. Great acid throughout. Totally awesome wine!
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Citrus and grapefruit fruit, but also hints of quince. A bit of honey and bee wax. Fresh minty layer as well as a white floral dimension. Decent array of flavors wrapped in moderate intensity. A perfectly fresh and clean, well-balanced palate. A refreshing Auslese with only a splash of sweetness that makes for a highly enjoyable drinking experience, even if lacking the depth or precision of a great wine.
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Bright gold with a slight spritz Thick sweet with lovely acidity. Fabulous with a near immortal feel. Light enough for dinner, but clearly on the sweeter side
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Brilliant golden yellow in color. Lovely aromas of ripe orchard pit fruits, lemon & orange oils, mango, green herbs and slate. The palate shows incredible depth to the rich custardy orchard, lemon and orange marmalade buttressed by superb acidity, floral and herbal essences, minerals and a long, never ending off-dry finish.
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The wine was mature but absolutely delicious. However, the cork was in bad shape. I have another bottle of this and observe that its cork seems to be having problems. Probably should consider drinking up remaining bottles for that reason.
7.5% EtOH. absolutely stunning vibrant lively and fresh wine with a haunting balance of sweet and sour. Per my palate, this wine absolutely knocks it out of the park. Whoa Nelly!
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AP #22. This has been open 6 hours or so. A hint of petrol, tons of fresh red apple, a hint of cinnamon, cream - ethereal. The palate is stunning - spicy sweet fruit, cinnamon and hints of pie. The reserves rises, spread their wings and expand to take over the mouth - so sweet, hints of spice and baking note, dough, honey, the levels of flavor and lightness are hard to get my head around, the acid is perfectly integrated. Long spicy dough and apple finish. Profound, heartbreaking and legendary. Nose - 5-5.5/6, Palate - 5.5-6/6, Finish - 5.5-6/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5-2/2 = 17.5-19.5/20.
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Lovely bottle! Golden, honeyed color. Complex notes of Asian pear, butterscotch, and petrol in the glass. Silky mouthfeel with a heavy dose of apricot, under-ripe pineapple, and steeped tea. Long acidic finish that cleansed the palate beautifully. Ready now but will develop further in bottle. Yum!
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Pop and pour. Mold encased cork is always a good sign. Immediately expressive with perfectly ripe orchard fruits, river rock and a hint of the classic Prum petrol. Palate is lush and full with multiple layers of fruit and floral notes, hint of lemongrass and a juicy finish. Goes down so easy, it's hard not to finish the glass in one swig. This bottle was further along than previous specimens, which were still a bit young and primary, which made it a particular joy this evening.
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From a magnum, this was brilliant with layers of tropical fruit perfectly balanced with acid. Less evolved than the same wine from a 750 a couple years ago. Terrific pairing with turkey.
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Still a slight effervescence on pour, this was surprisingly less sweet/lighter bodied than I had expected. Beautiful balance, deliciously drinkable in the way that only aged pradikat riesling is.
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I found a slight, recent leak from this bottle so I opened it the following day. This was decanted for about an hour as it warmed up a bit. Holy crap, this was an amazing bottle. There were apricots along with other white fruits, honeycomb, a slight salinity and an epic finish. The acidity kept it all in balance. Amazing.
Leaky, crumbling cork or else I would have held this a bit longer. This is in a good place with gooseberries, lychee, citrus, and high acidity over a moderately sweet core. Endless complexity to the nose and very balanced on the palate, a brilliant wine that seems very young still. Wish I had another bottle tucked away.
My first of six. Apart from the reduced sweetness, this still seems very young. Better with a bit of warmth rather than fridge-cold, as that brought out some more richness and body. Icing sugar, herbs and struck match on the nose; apple juice, blood orange, cream and honey on the palate; and a nice zing of marmalade on the finish. Wonderfully drinkable but I think future bottles will have even more to them.
Day 2: not much change, but there's a bit more weight and length, and a gingery spice note on the nose and the finish. Increasing score by a point.
Day 4: similar to day 2, perhaps mellower still. Amazing wine.
Day 7: final glass a bit flat (but hey, at least I got my two dry days in this week!)
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OK the nose is currently a slice of heaven. The Andromeda galaxy 45° up from its horizontal plane. I am coddling a baby, then drinking an infomercial's worth of orange juice, then watching the masturbation scene in blue lagoon.
From 375 with an hour in the decanter. Great with steamed Alaskan king crab. Many good years ahead, even in this format.
What to say about this wine. It is amazing, majestic, fresh, intense, lively, fierce, subtle, moving, joyful. It makes you happy to be alive. Another incredible bottle. This wine will probably outlive me and I'll leave it for my kids to find out 30 years from now.
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Medium yellow. Primary fruit plus a whiff of baby powder which I find at times in German Riesling. Still a bit of JJ spritz. Light to medium weight, off dry rather than an overtly sweet Auslese. Relaxed, perfectly pure apple and peach, spice, faint slate. The acidity is by no means deficient, but it doesn't really bear down on you either. Harmonious and long. At almost 20 years of age and for how open it is, it's amazing how little in the way of secondary mature notes this wine has developed. I could see it perking along gaining complexity for another 2 decades. Already outstanding, it could become majestic.
Virtual Rieslings: Peach and tangy yellow fruit on the palate and finish. This wine is electric, in that it electrifies your mouth. There is a long tingly finish. This is one of the better German rieslings I've experience in my life, and I've had a lot of good ones.
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Virtual Riesling Tasting (Home): Light gold color. Wines were opened and poured into vessels between 4-4:30pm, poured into glasses around 6:30pm; drank a glass over 3 hours. Oh boy, this is really good, even better than past bottles that have been impressive. A hint of tingly effervescence on the nose, light fusil, apple blossom, apple, peach, stone fruits, wet stone. The palate is wow, I'll call it flashy with substance; this absolutely demands your full attention, so tangy, great fruit, perfect tingling acidity, apple, peach, tangerine, hints of pineapple, fusil, mineral, wonderful balance, very long and resonant, just great. Unanimous WOTN.
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Light gold in color. Classic aromas of ripe orchard pit fruits, orange oil, honeysuckle, hint of petrol and slate. Fantastic palate shows jellied orchard pit fruit marmalade, pineapple, orange custard, tons of minerals, superb acidity balancing the sweetness that lead to an endless and perfectly off-dry and spicy finish.
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All wines prepared as follows: Opened between 4:00 and 4:30, poured into jars for transport, poured into glasses and tasted starting at 6:30. The following wines were tasted:
2001 Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese: Happy to say that this wine was rocking! Sad to say that I only have one more bottle. Nose showed lots of honeysuckle and bees wax with stone fruit, and some tropical scents, along with some oyster and gun powder. The palate was equally expressive with stone fruits (peaches and nectarines, with a little apricot) some apple, pear and hints of pineapple and Meyers lemon on one hand and minerality from flint, limestone and seashell on the other hand. The mouthfeel was grand, as favors coated the palate and remained there for a long and glorious finish.
I love the precision and balance of this Riesling, reminds me of Yquem in that way, i.e., some sweetness but so balanced out by acidity that it is perfect and harmonious. Wish I had a case (or more) left, as I could see myself drinking regularly!
This is one of the best Rieslings I have had (although I admit I have not had that many), and right in my wheelhouse. Easily 95+ points (and I may be being stingy) Certainly drinking well now, but no hurry! Group's and my WOTN.
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Lovely Auslese. Excellent nose of Granny Smith apple, caramel, and rubber. Bright and fresh in the mouth with pink grapefruit, creamy pineapple, and a hint of smoke. Long and clean finish. Ready now but likely has another stage of development ahead. Perfect with chicken thighs with Indian spices.
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Poured in a Grassl Mineralite glass and followed over the course of the evening.
Incredibly youthful despite being nearly 20 years past vintage. A whiff of petrol on the nose with some non-specific tropical fruit aromas, but the palate is where it’s at. Ripe peach, pineapple, orange marmalade, mango, tea leaf, and mint notes keep shifting on the palate, supported by shimmering acidity and well-integrated sweetness. The wine is concentrated yet elegant, with no detectable botrytis, and the finish is quite long ending on peach and orange citrus notes.
This bottle is in it’s adolescence, and I feel the best is yet to come. Glad I have a couple more bottles, and I don’t plan to open my next one for at least another 10–15 years. God I love riesling.
I went through a phase early in my wine buying life when I was obsessed with Riesling. Sweet. Dry. German. Austrian. All comers welcome. Since then I could probably count the bottles of Riesling I’ve purchased on one hand. Funny how tastes change. Anyway I am sitting on a pile of ‘01s that are probably entering their prime drinking window so thought I would check one out. This is AP# 28. As the Germans love to overfill, this had sos and a saturated cork but the level was still into the capsule. Pours the loveliest gold color with a nose that explodes with tropical and peach notes, and a hint of reduction. With air this picked up some classic petrol notes and pronounced minerals. Viscous mouthfeel with orange marmalade, clover honey, stone fruits and chalk, finishing with crisp acids and steely minerality. This has it all and is about as good as Riesling gets.
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Classic Prum petrol nose with underripe nectarine and citrus. Balanced weight. Palate is complex with stone fruits and apple. Long and lingering finish. This is so much more open than the GK at this point. Drinking beautifully in that perfect window, but has the goods to last another 20 years.
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9th of 18, pnp, perfect cork and level, outrageously good, young, and spritzy, almost a cremant on the first night, better on second and third nights after the flavours had settled. VF (18.5).
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Tonight it’s a 92-93. I’ve had this bottle where I’d call it a 95-96. Very good and tart but this one tastes slightly watered down with a little less pop. Maybe less sugar. Small amount of seepage and could smell the Riesling outside of the cork
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This was leaking, but the wine was still in good condition. Much more advanced than a bottle two years ago. Slight effervescence on night one. Tropical fruit, honeydew, and lime, but leaning toward the riper and less acidic side.
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Wow, that is an awesome nose. Rich, decadent white fruit, tropical, florals and mineral. Sweet, ripe, round white fruit. There is modest acidity, but I'd like more. Really love that nose.
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HDH auction at Spiaggia; 9/19/2019-9/21/2019 (Chicago, IL): #20-02, 7.5% abv. Yeah, that's the stuff. This is unequivocally one of the wines of the vintage. The only problem is that this is still just too young. It's surprisingly fizzy with a good touch of effervescence. The only issue with this wine is that it really is just too young. Good herbs, fruits, and minerality. Needs like 20 years.
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Meant to be the wine to manage some of the early spicy Korean treats although I arrived at dinner after those had mostly been consumed. It's still a very nice wine. Great acidity. Easy to drink. Class.
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Exceptional. Beautiful clarity, depth, dimension. Fabulous at 18 years. Retains vibrancy, with soft citrus notes, honey, white flower, hay, and mineral tones. Touch of sulfur on opening blows off quickly. Greath finish.
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Nose of salt air and peaches. Relatively light weight in mouth. Long elegant finish, with residual sugar well absorbed. Touch of petrol.
P.S. Unusual and sad experience with this bottle. Kept under pristine temperature controlled cellar conditions, but for some reason one day the cork exploded right off the bottle on the shelf with no discernible explanation. Only about about 5 ounces remained in the bottle, but both the wine and the cork (other than being separated from one another!) seemed in perfectly good condition. Very strange.
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Medium golden core. Peach, peach, peach - more peach - then some honey, raspberry and chamomile. Not markedly sweeter than the Spatlese, with crisp acidity. As interesting as the nose is (and it is amazingly complex!), the palate is still surprisingly muted by comparison - simple, stunningly primary, hardly showing any development at all. This is still ridiculously young, and in evident need of more time in the cellar. As the Soup Guy might say: "No soup for you! Come back five years."
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Monthly Tasting Group: Rieslings (Ngon Bistro, St. Paul, MN): Light gold color. Drank a glass over 30 plus minutes. Good at the start but really takes off over the first 20 minutes. Still has that great fruit, a bit less on the nose, though it builds, fusil, mineral, peach, candied apricot, orange, slate, perfect balance. Loved it.
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Uncles Fine Wine Spring BYO (Home): Elegant and typical tropical tones. Great balanced with delightful and welcoming fruit. Tropical mix, mango and apricot. The fruit was a bit slimmer than expected in an Auslese.
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The bad news - this split had a bad cork - couldn't pull it, it crumbled, and there was evidence of a small amount of leakage. The good news - it still tasted good! Probably not as good as it would have been without the bad cork, but still very, very drinkable. Lots of mild, refined fruit, and a little bit of brioche taste, all nicely integrated. I have never drunk this wine before and only had the one bottle, so I really have nothing to compare to.
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A beautiful wine that's just starting to hit its stride. The acidity and sweetness are remarkably balanced, and the fruit and petrol marry well together. I'm glad to have more of this in my cellar, but will wait awhile before popping another.
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Two and a half years since my last experience with this, so I thought I'd check in on another. It hasn't budged much. It needs a lot of air to clear most of the sulfur - this was double-decanted several hours in advance, and even then there's a whiff of sulfury funk that lingers on the nose. Beneath that is an absolutely incredible Riesling with layers of youthful fruit, minerality, florality, and just faint hints of the creamy and smoky development that should come with more time. It's a very light wine but there's such piercing intensity to the flavours, tremendous acidity that gives a mouthwatering, slightly tart sensation to the finish, and impeccable balance.
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Vinetasters: 2001/2005 Joh. Jos. Prüm (Skokie, IL): #19-02, 7.5% abv. Definitely shows a bit of that earthy funk that this wine is famous for (perhaps it's the sponti?). Underneath the sponti is green herbs and some tart fruit, in a much more subtle and less overt expression. The palate here again is simply outstanding -- refined and balanced, with so much going on. It's never in your face -- this is gentle with a little bit of earthiness to add to all the fruit here. Finishes intensely long. Just not showing incredibly well today though, I think...
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Pretty youthful in appearance. Cork in great shape and popped right out with a cheap corkscrew. Wonderful complexity on the nose which gives off clean sweet melon; then petrol; tons of slate; pear; white flowers. Burst of acidity. Sweet yellow apple and the palate develops a creamy texture late with a touch of caramel banana. Right on the money Prum Auslese. Long - easily a minute plus of real presence, and then you can still catch traces off it for another minute or so.
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5th of 24, pnp, cork stuck, crumbled and pulled through middle (a pain!) but wine super, just a little more now showing than last April's bottle and even better on second night, years of life and just a bit more to it than last week's 02. VF (18.5).
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PNP. cork perfect. color is light straw. nose starts out with some sulfite that blows off with air. palate remains youthful and bright, with a mix of primary and secondary and the acid propelling the palate and keeping the RS in check. delicious, but i think has significant time to resolve the RS. Thanks mike!
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Still young; a delicate wine with a long life ahead of it. Crisp with good acidity still present. One taster thought it lacked body and concentration and wondered if it was just a stage it was going through. Others (DD) argued to save bottles for the long haul.
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Cork on this was completely dried out, so I was a bit worried this had not survived. Poured into a decanter and strained out the cork bits. Golden edge with a bit of effervescence. Really nice acid and a mid-palate of vanilla and honey. Almost Sauternes-like. Drank the best on day three. This seems like it stilll has many years to go.
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Half bottle opened since it was leaky. Healthy yellow color with some spritz. Intense baked Golden Delicious apple, background honey, and later some petrol. Light to medium weight, off dry, tremendous fruit, acidity, and concluding slate. From this small format, just reaching early maturity. Fantastic, restrained old style Auslese that is just kissed by botrytis and is a food wine rather than being overly sweet.
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White fruits, with golden apple, comice pear and lemon layered over a subtle streak of stoniness, with a whiff of smoke for good measure. On day one the acid was quite prominent, on the second day, the wine seemed more integrated; definitely worth a decant at this stage. Medium weight and super fresh. Complex, but still very much an infant. While incredibly delicious now, this will only continue to improve for years to come. Wait a minimum of 5 years if you only have one. So, so, so, so good.
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Just a beautiful bottle. Honeyed apricot, white grapefruit, slate. The sweetness is there but somewhat reserved and nearly covered up by the intense acidity. Long finish shows some nice white floral notes. Outstanding with Szechuan food.
Very nice with medium plus sweetness and medium plus acidity, classic pear fruit profile, no complaints but I would have liked a tad more acidity (tho to be candid I am an acid addict), went well with steak tartare (as did the '89 Beaucastel)
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Little bit of petrol, good bit of vivacious, dancing acidity, so seamless in its cold sweetness, juicy beyond most reckoning. A great wine experience. My wife and I had 12 bottles, now only 1 left. Sadness, but life goes on and we're very glad for this wine.
With this bottle there was a pause after the sweet/acid balance hits you, where the varied fruits and flowers parted enough for the mineral foundation to be apparent. Heaven.
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Dinner at Bellecour (Bellecour, Mpls, MN): Medium golden color. PNP, drank 1 glass over 45 minutes. Very youthful and exuberant currently. Very ripe and tropical fruits, mango, pear, pineapple, fusil, and citrus blossoms. The palate has adequate acid and the same tropical styled fruits, powdery sour fruited dry extract on the finish that lifts this somewhat. Still rather youthful, but ever so tasty.
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Dinner at Table, Donkey and Stick (Chicago, IL): #28-02, 7.5% abv. This has always been a perennial favourite wine of mine and it's perhaps one of the most consistent and best Mosel rieslings of the decade. The nose on this is absolutely gorgeous, with just a slight hint of petrol starting to emerge from the tons of fruit that make up the nose of this wine. The palate has started to also evolve some secondary characteristics as well, but mostly it's still a story of dense fruit and crisp minerality in an intensely concentrated package (but not super intense -- that's the Goldkapsel). Well balanced and light, this is what Mosel riesling is all about.
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AP 28 02. Opened for New Year's Eve. After a glut of new release 2015 Germans I wanted to be reminded what a great vintage can do with some age. Haven't been collecting long enough to have purchased this upon release but I purchased second-hand through a reputable site and storage had obviously been top notch. Cork came out with no issues at all and wasn't saturated much beyond a third of the way.
Flavors are out of this world! Drop dead sexy mature Riesling nose and color is starting to take on a golden hue. Actually smelled quite a bit more advanced than it was. The taste itself was liquid joy! Wild and fruity with endless layers of complexity. Strong acid backbone and still had that youthful effervescence on the tongue. A finish that you just kept yearning for through the rest of the evening.
Even after a string of amazing wines recently, this took the cake. Riesling perfection!
On an administrative note, I had the AP 19 02 a year or so back and wasn't nearly as impressed. Perhaps a bad bottle, but it just makes me more careful when I choose AP numbers to fill out my back vintages.
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A stunning beauty of a riesling. A gorgeous perfumed nose of baby powder, honey, pear, lemon, and tropical fruits; a little bit of smokiness and florals too. On the palate, there is solid minerality, and as the pleasant sweetness fades it reveals the racy acidity that undergirds the wine's structure and persists through a long, mouthwatering finish. It was a great introduction for my friends who had not experienced riesling with some age previously.
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Opened by Jcubed. 3rd time I have had this wine. This was the most complete and rounded of the 3 German Riesling opened. Slightly less sweet than when I last had it. Notes of apricots, star fruit and a minerally/slatey finish. This wine does not disappoint and 15 years old. 96 points.
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Courtesy of jcubed. Peach, stobe fruit, honey and diesel notes. Terrific presence on the palate with stone fruit and diesel and a long finish. Tonight this just felt a little short on acidity but otherwise fired on all cylinders. 93-94 pts.
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Chilled, PnP, drank over 2 hours. Wanted to check in on this one again.
From prior notes: "Classic Prum nose, lime, citrus, petrol. Still tastes young, some faint fizz still in the bottle as with young rieslings. Sweetness and acidity are balanced. Medium to light bodied, medium finish..." Still young, but in a really great spot now. more orchard fruit, baked apple, homey than I recall from last tasting, and more viscous mouth feel. Great "Thanksgiving flavors" with the orchard/apples, would go well with main courses
This is really delicious at this point, will still go a while (10+ years) if wanting to cellar it.
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#19-02, 7.5% abv. This has got to be one of the best bottles of widely-available riesling ever made. The nose is quite reductive, though there isn't any stinky sulphur here. It's more of a matchstick quality, though there's plenty of white fruit as well. I think the palate is the most impressive part of this wine -- sure, it's plenty sweet and sour, but what's startling here is the sheer amount of mineral extract that makes this wine seem almost dry. This is just so jam-packed with stuffing, I've no problem seeing this going on for decades. But if you've got a few bottles of this, pop one open now. It's insanely delicious just the same.
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This was my favorite of the night. It is amazingly young, even for 2001. The nose was perfumed with honeysuckle, pineapple, stone fruit and even some lavender, with a hint of petrol (similar to a Sauternes). On the palate it was crisp, but with fruit and sweetness to match. I would say the acidity is more dominant than the fruit right now, but the sugar definitely keeps it in balance. Very enjoyable now, but I feel it will improve quite a bit with more bottle age. I am glad a few more bottles of this and will likely wait a few years before popping open another one.
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Rieslings and a couple reds (Ray and Teresa's): Slightly austere, good structure, a 2007 Spatlese actually tasted sweeter today. This drinks quite young, I think it needs to turn the corner, but it was still quite enjoyable. 92+
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Unfortunately not my thing. For those not that versed - this is a sweet wine. I was hoping for dry which is why residual sugar should be on every label. Having said that the nose on this wine is utterly amazing. Jumps out of the glass and something I could smell all day long. In the mouth loads of candy and sweetness.
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good, but not as good as the '97 had alongside, this had good sweet fruit and some acid but a bit less that the '97 and therefore merited one point lower
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Monumental Auslese. So painfully young, yet so complex - though this was double-decanted several hours before dinner, and then a third time afterwards. Despite the decants, a whiff of sulfur and sponti yeast funk still lingers on the nose, but beneath that there's an array of classic Mosel fruit flavours over a slate/stony mineral base, with the savoury and mineral flavours only getting more intense and vivid with air. The balance and length here are spectacular, and I'm glad I have a lot more in the cellar. This is already spectacular now, but I can't begin to imagine what this may turn into with a couple more decades (at least)!
Apparently, this was opened six hours prior to tasting. Remarkable youthfulness, with the exuberance and vigor of a 2009, but with incredible class, depth, and acid. Despite the multiple decants, still holds on to a bit of spritz and sulfur--unwilling to yield to its age. Apple, flowers, great sweetness, even better acidity. Primary. Joyful! Drink now or in ten years or in thirty years or in fifty years. Like Dorian, this doesn't seem to age.
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Light yellow with some retained spritz. Apple nose, no honey or petrol. Light, off dry, intense apple jelly and spice with superb buttressing acidity. At age 15, I did not detect the slightest hint of secondary development. This will live and improve for ages!
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Lost Thursday Wine Lunch - Blacksalt (Blacksalt, Washington DC): Still quite youthful nose with only a hint of petrol, mostly succulent yellow fruits, lemon curd, grapefruit, hard yellow peach, sweet spices and limestone. Excellent concentration, a hint of fizz, succulent yellow fruit driven palate impression, quite dense/oily but strong acidity provides beautiful balance and lovely long sweet and sour finish that resonates. Quite dense and ripe but beautifully balanced. Long life ahead.
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Drank cold with friends with dinner of Indian food. Exquisite layered composition of candied fruit, minerals and lime with a finish lasting forever. Wish I had 100 cases of this.
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great drinking, even if a bit simple, for those who like riesling this is easy to down, liked by all etc, good acid but not big acid, lots of sweet pear, nice and lovely at 9% alcohol (best i can remember), have some in offsite storage and i hope to be able to see how this tastes in 10-15 years
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This wine is so young, so primary, and so classic! I was surprised by the strength of the burnt match, but it seems (according to the interwebs) this is perfectly normal for young Prum Riesling - especially from the Sonnenuhr vineyard. Moderately sweet, light, and saffron-scented, with good varietal character and sparkling acidity.
Score: Between 8.5 and 9.
Visual: Clear, day bright, medium-straw with moderate concentration. I’m a bit surprised this was lighter in color than the Cuvee Freddy - especially since this has botrytis on it, and that usually hastens oxidation and thus deepening of color.
Nose: Light burnt match (reduction), which yields to a light (but present) tone of petrol/pool-toy (TDN). There is a slight hint of grapefruit pith (thiol character), and a moderate influence of botrytis (warm saffron and rice tones). Fruit wasn’t dominant for me.
Surprisingly youthful and moderately complex, with both varietal character and botrytis influence. The burnt match certainly evokes a sense of warm crushed stones (Terroir!). The fact that it seems to be a reductive character doesn’t change the magic of this combination. I’m becoming more and more convinced of the argument that minerality is in fact the combination of high acidy and moderated reduction.
I think this probably needs a lot of time — decades, perhaps — for the struck match aromas to subside and for secondary and tertiary aromas to develop.
Palate: Off-dry (I wrote ~15g/L, but given the ripping high acid it could be in the 30’s or 40’s). Low alcohol (not even diminished - I feel almost no alcoholic heat). ~10%? [actually 7.5%]. Solidly high acid, both malic and tartaric, though initially the acidic spark is softened by significant sweetness. No phenolic bitterness. Superb balance with sweetness lifted by strong acid. Complexity is just moderate at this point - I think it needs significant age to develop further. The finish is long, with sweetness and acidity neck-and-neck.
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John's Birthday Degustation Dinner (Hippopotamus Restaurant, Museum Hotel, Wellington, New Zealand): Still a complete baby - tasting fresh as a daisy. Some SO2 and rubber hose notes on the aroma. Great nose of wet slate with a tangy mineral laced palate of only subtle perceived sweetness. Taut in the mouth with amazing definition and length, this was not sweet enough for the dessert that was served but on its own, it was a wine of superb poise.
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2nd of 24 - pale, some spritz; nuance developing, quite floral, some stone, refreshing lime; light but long and intense, super balance, refreshing fruit. dimension developing hints at much more to come early days yet. I find these wines need about 15 years before they start to develop. Should improve on current fine plus (18/20).
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Smooth and silky with an elegant lemony honeyed fruit; lightly acidic; paired well with salt and pepper prawns as well as hummus and soft washed rind cheese.
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JB at Fernando's House: Needs time. Started of with SO2 but that blew off. Only showed its real colors hours later - when there was merely a quarter of a glass left. Ripe core, apples and pears in the middle mixing with peaches. red berries on the finish. classic Mosel floral notes. this will be stunning - but i wouldn't open it now.
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This is so great. Shows well now but many many years ahead. Clover honey with white fruits and flowers. So long on the finish. This wine shows you the greatness of German riesling.
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The Prüm Dinner (Chicago, IL): #28-02, 7.5% abv. Wow, what a stunner. This is such a pretty wine, with so much complexity all over the board -- on the nose, on the palate, on the finish. A very strong floral component comes across on the nose, and that honeyed component finds its way on the palate, where it's washed away by a laser-guided and precise stream of acidity. 2001 for the win again!
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Mostly Prum with Duck (Peking Duck House): I think there was something wrong with this bottle. Not very expressive aromatically. Loads of sugar on the attack, not much midpalate, turns bitter on the backend. Not at all what I would have expected from this bottling in this year.
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Light yellow. This smells like a stroll through an orchard, all manner of flowers and recently cut yellow apple. Some baby powder as well but no botrytis and no secondary fusel. The freshness and youthfulness carry through to the palate. Mosel weight with slightly more gloss, and to put the residual sugar in perspective, I think some 2009's Kabinetts taste sweeter to me, but I would have probably called it a lower residual Spatlese had I tasted it blind. Great purity of apple with some lime sneaking in late with terrific balancing acidity and a long slate-filled finish. Absolutely marvelous and much too easy to drain quickly because it is so delicious.
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pale gold. Nose a mellow mix of vanilla, minerals, cirus and pear. Taste was an amazing balance of sweet and acid, citrus, mango, pear. Spatlese in sweetness appearance. Delish
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Still a touch of spritz on opening, and seems a bit too sweet. A little unctuous right now, perhaps, needing more time. But quite delicious nevertheless, and will be much better when it loses some of its primary appeal. [AP 20 02]
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Amazing wine, drinking beautifully now but with years ahead of it. Went perfectly with the full range of food served at Thanksgiving, from turkey and stuffing to the various sides. Layered citrus and floral notes supported by great structure, wet slate, and lots more.
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Another great bottle of this with consistent notes. Shimmering gold colored. Petrol, flowers and peach. Palate is concentrated and dense but this wine feels weightless on the finish. Everything is so well balanced - a great wine.
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NR as it was an add-on after eight bottle tasting, everyone loved it and Chris kept talking about the petrol on the nose, i almost got plastic / rubber, palate was nice, clean and youngish to me (but i had had a lot to drink by the time i tried this one)
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Opened by Allred. Wow. Even better than the last time I had it. Deep golden color but much lighter on the palate than the color would have you believe. Just a light spritz at first. Smooth and silky with many layers. Notes of slate, tropical fruits and ripe peaches. Still has a solid acidity to hold everything together. Long and round finish. I have 1 bottle left and will probably hold it until it is 20 or 25 years old. 96 points.
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Whereas the JJC is ready to go, this is actually still quite youthful and could use some time. Lighter in color than the JJC with aromas of slate and sulphur, peach and stone fruit. Has a bit of spritz on the palate, with bright acidity and flavors of ripe peach and slate and a finish that lingers for well over a minute. Very happy to have four more of these beauties. AP 2 576 511 19 02. 94+ pts.
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Deep yellow-gold. Intoxicating nose of apple, lemon and lanolin. Excellent palate with racy acidity perfectly balanced with full apple fruit flavors. Mouthfilling and rich. This has it all going on right now. Finish is outstanding and very long and lovely. Light on its feet but with plenty of fruit stuffing. No sign of decline at all, this should last and last. Very enticing and refreshing. 4-13-17-9: 93/100.
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Ended the evening with this one. Decanted 20-30 min, great deep color, musky/melon-like nose. Wonderfully integrated honey and citrus fruits. Lucky to be on a roll with German Rieslings recently that keep me coming back for more
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At Bistro Jeanty in Yountville, capping off tastings pre PNV. I brought this one as a first wine of the night.
Classic Prum nose, lime, citrus, petrol. Still tastes young, some faint fizz still in the bottle as with young rieslings. Sweetness and acidity are balanced. Medium to light bodied, medium finish. Was a great aperitif/first wine for a big evening.
Will go for a while if you are inclined to cellar, will be fun to drink remaining bottles over next 10 years to see how it evolves.
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Beautiful aromatics dominated by florals, also key lime and hints of petrol. Terrific balance as the sweetness and acidity are totally in sync. This is great - so easy to drink.
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Still tastes like it was bottled yesterday. While wonderful and youthful, I wouldn't open another for a min. of 5+ years if you like some age on them as this had none.
Clear light yellow, barest hint of fizz, not a drop of petrol. I had to hide it from my wife. As it was it was gone in 30 minutes but it would have been gone in 10 otherwise, wonderful stuff.
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Just starting to show it's potential this is a wonderful riesling that is only going to get better over time. I have more of this wine than any other wine I have in my cellar. So happy that I do.
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Dinner at Les Amis (Les Amis, Shaw House): Wow. From a 375ml quickly decanted to blow off any sulphur or spritz, this was gob-smackingly good. While still very young, it was clearly starting to open up and strut its stuff, starting with a glorious nose that little drizzles of kerosene amongst flowery notes of orange blossoms and nectar and honey, a lovely core of subtly sweet stone fruit aromas - think nectarines and white peach here - a twist of orange peel and then some typical Sonnenuhr accents of vanilla and white chocoate. Gorgeous stuff. The palate was a bit less developed, still clearly a tad too young, but it had this mindblowing balance, with a tightrope-walking display of acidity and sweet fruit held in perfect, graceful tension that grabbed the palate and refused to let go. While not quite showing off the complexity that one suspects it will in time, this was was nevertheless quite wonderfully integrated, with already beautiful and quite multifaceted flavours of orange blossoms and tangerines, nectarines and peaches, some juicy red apples and then, towards the long, elegant finish, white flowers and even a touch of marsala spice. Brilliant, brilliant stuff. A complete wine, that should only get better in the bottle. When paired with some blue-cheese, this was the perfect end to a brilliant meal.
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[AP 20 02, 7.5% abv] Gorgeous auslese, but still too young. More than a touch of spritz on opening; fantastic balance however between fruit & acidity. No sulphur. Great depth and harmony; not too sweet, never cloys. A bit naughty to open my first of only 5 bottles tonight, but I have spotted some more on a merchant's list, and am hopeful of more than replacing just this one delicious bottle. Had to try one before ordering more!
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Light and still some spritz. Apple, yellow peach and honey. Moderately sweet, beautiful acidity to balance. Even from this format, little secondary development. Classic, gorgeous.
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Beautiful riesling aromas with hint of petrol. On the palate nice bright acidity that is balanced beautifully with lush fruit...zippy finish...It should age well.
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Decanted an hour in advance and still was still showing some sulfury funk when poured and after plenty of swirling. Beneath the sulfur are layers of incredibly pure and fresh Mosel fruit, floral elements and slatey minerality; there's great balance here with a sense of real purity and clarity to the flavours, bright acidity balancing the moderate sweetness and impressive length.
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Some yeast and sulfur on the nose when first poured, then quickly floral and fruity. Palate of peach, citrus, honey, mango, cantaloupe, pear, tangy apple leading to the beautiful acidity in this perfectly balanced wine. The best Riesling finish I've ever had, with an element of raspberry showing up. While the wine is not overpowering, even with a full mouthful, a very tiny sip brings impressive flavor.
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Petrol notes with blue cheese; taught, touch spritz with high acidity and much brightness and pure sweetness; young, very clean, very sweet. 92 now but with potential in 8-10 years plus.
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EWG - 2001: A Taste Odyssey (Conrad Green's Abode): There are some mineral qualities peaking out from a the copious sulfur. Very effervescent with a bit of a bite. Clean and light bodied with an oily texture. This is gonna need some time or lots of air. The sulfur did dissipate some with swirling and time but the wine remained a bit inexpressive. Rest.
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Strong diesel and classic JJ Prum aromas on the Nose. A wee bit of spritz upon pouring. Palate reveals a wine bursting with intense electric energy! Appropriately sweet for an Auslese, with incredible precision of flavor and zippy/tangy acidity that cuts through one’s palate like a freshly-honed Samurai sword. Classic Prum WS flavors and structure, but wrapped in a package of incredible (perfect?) intensity, precision, cut, and clarity. Still young – obviously – but is presently emerging from its youthful shroud. This will certainly continue to improve in the cellar over the next decade, and will likely drink very well for another decade or two after that. A jaw-dropping, mouth-wateringly wonderful example of its type. A young Classic. To my palate, this is superlative today and seems poised for future perfection. Bottle kindly provided by kingkanu.
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Prum Wehlener Sonnenhur Dinner (Peach Farm, Chinatown, Boston): Delicious as always. Ripe apple, below fruit, slate, still quite primary. Auslese sweet and certainly ripe, but impeccable balance and light impression on the palate. Beautiful wine. My favorite of an extremely good flight.
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I haven't had this in 3 years, and it seems as though it has hardly moved, but that's fine with me as it remains in a beautiful, if youthful, place. Light yellow. Cidery, apply fruit with just a whiff of stone fruit and flowers but no secondary Riesling aromatics yet. An old style Auslese in that you'd never guess the Pradikat since the sugar is so well leavened by acidity and minerality. After a few hours, just a kiss of honey shows. What a wine!
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AP #28. Still dominated by sulfur aromatically (and it took quite a while to blow off), but underneath the sulfur is a stunning, seamless combination of ripe Mosel fruit, honey, slate and florality conveyed with amazing freshness and purity with fantastic acidity moderating the sweetness. There's a sense of real polish and gloss to the texture, superb balance and impressive length. Great wine.
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Dong Khahn. Lovely, seamless, focused, packed but elegant. Appropriate sweetness, impeccable balance. In a word, class. Drinking fine now and for a long time.
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I just about melted when I took my first whiff of this wine. It smelled like heaven. Slate, white flowers, and petrol all plentiful. What really knocked my socks off about this wine though was the mouthfeel and how perfectly integrated the acidity was with the residual sugars. It was soft and velvety without being syrupy and the acidity cut through without being brash and sharp. You just couldn't ask for a better balance. Long complex finish topped the whole experience off on this very special bottle. Will continue to develop for many years to come.
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Popped and poured at Starla's tonight. I hope this was way too young or an off bottle. Light golden color with muted nose and palate. Palate was primarily grapefruit, not what I look for in a riesling. Slight sweetnes peeking out from behind the grapefruit. Starla seemed to like it much more than I. Hopefully this will come around in years to come as I have a few more bottles, but I will refrain from buying anymore. Score based more on reputation than my experience tonight.
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I think this may be in an in between stage...not quite old enough to get the good aged flavors, but over its youthful exuberance. Sweet, not sure if the acidity is enough to check it. Honeyed, good flavoring, perhaps needed to be a bit cooler.
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Bottle showed a little seepage and top half of cork crumbled when opened. Aside from that the wine showed very well. Extremely balanced wine where the acidity holds the sweetness in check. Apple & citrus on the nose; very sweet on the palette with lots of citrus and minerality and the finish just lingered effortlessly on & on. Also noticed tiny bubbles in the glass. Possibly the best German Reisling I've had to date
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Light yellow color with a nose that jumped out with of the glass. The wine has excellent acidity and beautiful citrus, peach & pineapple fruit. What a delightful wine. I suspect that it can age for at least another 10+ years.
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Riesling Tasting (Schloss Roberts): lime, peach. really stunning acid puts this into excellent balance. this drinks extremely light and young for the amount of sugar and the 10 years of age. Long finish.
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Agree with all here said except after one hour it was losing it's luster and life. We had it for Easter dinner with traditional Honey Ham. Opening was simply a delight and ditto to all. It might have been my bottle but I think it's ready now. I will drink my next one in a few months and report back.
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Still an infant, but already spectacular. Starts out a little tight at first with bright peach, citrus and yellow plums over an intense slatey minerality - but with some air this really takes off, opening out aromatically and developing beautiful floral and herbal accents on top of the fruit and slate. Fantastic precision and balance with really good acidity that makes it feel incredibly light on its feet - a wow wine, even though it has years ahead. (AP #19-02 for those who keep track.)
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Drank one of these after dinner when Julia visited from college with her friend Vince. He likes rieslings so I gave him another bottle to take with him. For whatever reason, I've really lost my desire for German Riesling. Yes, it has a nice nose, but they are just so light bodied, kind of spritzy, and low on alcohol they just don't light my fire. If I'm going to drink a sweet wine, I much prefer having a Sauternes with some ooomph to it. I guess my tastes have changed over the years.
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alright showing. tough to introduce amongst 96 monte bello, 07 kb rr, 01 ducru and 04 rm occidental. less sweet and more spritz than i remember...which is a good thing.
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No sulfur on the nose here. Pale yellow transparent color. Lots of citrus on the palate with lemons, pineapple, grapefruit, and a hint of lime. Lots of honey and a little lychee peaking out of the mix. Still very primary but wonderfully complex. The best white wine of the year so far.
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Stunning wine that is drinking better than I would have thought at this young age. Everything I could ever want in German Riesling: complexity, balance, intensity, length. The profile will change with greater age, but there is no harm in trying this now after a good shake. A monument. (98+)
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Not as full bodied as I remember it but it certainly didn't have the chance to open up as this was consumed in less than a half hour. Should have known better...
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Great pairing with curry duck and tomato beef. Vegetable oil in color. Not as sweet as the previous bottles. Drinking extremely well with honey suckle minerality and a mid-length finish. Yummy!
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My largest individual wine holding, but first bottle drunk! Plenty of R.S. there I'm sure, but quite racy despite the ripeness of the year and the pradikat. Really fine. Minerals and yellow fruits. Surprised to find it drinking so well now, but clearly will evolve over many years.
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G7 (Rick): Pale yellow in color. Tastes of pineapple and apple. Nice acidity and stone minerality. Rich finish. Seems a bit flat and off. Should be quite similar to the goldkap of the same year but shows very little resemblance. AP#25765112802. 7.5% alcohol. Would rate this in the the mid to high eighties but since I suspect it's an off bottle, rating withheld.
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Light yellow. Open nose right out of the bottle with apple jelly, kumquat, and faint citrus. Very pure fruit, minimal botrytis, long and complete with excellent density, and not that much sweeter than an '05 Spatlese tasted the other night, no doubt due to its firm core of acidity. This is youthful, quite primary, and vigorous, as evidenced by the fact that it did not change one iota over several hours, but it is a wonderful drink now if you can live without the more aged Riesling characteristics. I expected a much more closed wine given recent reports of many '01s showing poorly. Achingly beautiful, years of life ahead.
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TN: Joh. Jos. Prüm 2001 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese (white capsule), AP 2 576 511 28 02; $32/750 ml, Village Corner, Ann Arbor, MI; 7.5 pabv; Rudi Wiest Cellars International, Carlsbad CA. As is usual, plenty of different AP numbers for these; one other I remember seeing is 19-02.
Found a bottle with a slightly protruding capsule; as I didn't remember seeing this before, I thought this would be a good bottle to either enhance or reduce the worries about the 2001 Auslesen.
The cork was protruding about 2 mm. Not the best of corks--it was so jammed into the bottle that it needed an Ah-So to remove it. Does Manfred really use them this short?
Polished gold. Plenty of spritz.
Opens with typical Prüm yeast stink, but that's nearly gone by the time I decant. Clover flower and honey. with a little lanolin underneath, and springwater running over stone. Later I notice how amazing the empty glass smells--a mile deep and very complex; with the dominating note cigar smoke.
Big, powerful, fully-extracted, with pointed white-wine tannins giving plenty of texture to the mouth, added to the tingly minerality. On the other hand, has plenty of definition as well. Has great impact on the mid-palate. Honey and tangerine of a great vintage; at present most of the the bee products are hid, except the honey. A rich Auslese in style, especially for a white cap, with very ripe acidity. Extremely long, with a superb, etched, orangeaid-like finish, with a hint of tobacco smoke and suggestions of high-toned sesquiterpenes, like a clean pininess.
Surprisingly, still extremely young-seeming, and an enormously pleasurable drink, something you don't expect at seven years with these wines. But don't use me as an excuse to commit infanticide among your Prüm 2001 Auslesen. 96/100.
For reference, here's what this wine tasted like shortly after release in April 2003, five years ago, to German wine aficionado John Trombley:
Has a nicely polished warm, anodized gold color.
Sweet grass, lime, thyme, peach, with spring airs of clover flower.
The palate is crisp, ripe, and balanced between tartrate and malate Crisp and honied, with a military, almost martial air; a Chambertin of a Riesling, perhaps 4-5 percent fruit sugar, glucose, and glycerin. This gives moderately sweet Auslese material; this will be a fairly dry Auslese selection as time goes on.
Plenty of lees aging as is typical for this producer, giving a distinct, sulfurous wet wool impression that demands integration over time for best results. As this wine should be purchased for cellaring, this does not present a problem for those who know them or who are willing to find out how they behave with bottle age. 96/100: it’s difficult to understand how the Spectator gives this wine less than it give the Himmelreich Auslese, except for relative ignorance in the case of German wine.
Happy I have more of this, and a few Goldkaps, too. __________________
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An early peak. With quite a few of these in the cellar, I decided to see where they stood. Plenty of that Prüm sulphur on the nose but tucked beneath it are layers of honeysuckle and chalk and a touch of citrus. The palate is precise and bright having shed its baby fat yet still sweet enough to scream Auslese. The star here is the acidity -- so much more present on day two. It supports all of the delicate minerals and vibrant peach flavors and subtle yet precise honey, apricot, grapefruit skin before returning to a intense honeysuckle finish. This is as profound as the vintage had me expecting, an absolute stunning wine. Don't be content with how good this wine is on day one as it becomes breathtaking on day two. And in the end I'm so glad to have taken an early plunge. 95+ points.
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A light white floral nose, hints of green fruit, petroleum jelly and delicate honey. A delicate, semi-sweet palate with lemon and a honeyed gentle finish. delicious and will last some time, I'm sure.
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This was the #20 that I tried. I was surprised by how well this was drinking. Allred brought a bottle of this to Anwars house last weekend. No sulpher notes and surprisingly fresh and open. Not decanted. Sweet but not a dessert wine. Still showing much of its youthful zest with just a touch of spritz left. Slate driven with green apple and some tropical notes. 94+ points.
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So yeah, this is young, but I have a few and have been itching to try one. On the nose, some petrol, a touch of sulphur and rich stone fruit notes rise from the glass. The palate is rich and unctuous, with peach, apricot, honey and sulphur flavors. Very long finish.
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AP #19-02. Decanted 6 hours. This very young and still primary wine, even after 6 hours of decanting, had a straw color to it. Medium bodied with crisp, tart acidity of the lemon/lime variety. Full of green apples and slate, there was a richness and concentration to the wine that really shows the potential for the future. Very deep flavors. Medium length finish that I believe will show more in the future. Really enjoyable today but what a future. 50+13+12+8+8 = 91++
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Young Prum sulfur on the nose with some ripe peach, pineapple, and apricot notes accompanied by a mineral streak. Full on the palate with a crisp balanced acidity and some spritz, though not nearly as much as a bottle at the beginning of 2005. Great balance and body, just needs some time.
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Light gold - The bouquet lights up the room like a chandelier. It was like walking into the fruit section of my supermarket. With hints of plums, peaches, berries, and garden fruit all checked into place with wonderfully balanced acidity and with cashmere softness on the palate. A perfect pairing for my Hawaiian Mahi Mahi and its peppercorn glaze. Heavenly.
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Dinner at Nick's Fish House. AP #2 576 511 28 02. I had this alongside an appetizer of ahi sashimi and an entree of whole-fried Moi in a light soy glaze atop black rice. The wine was utter liquefied diesel and mineral, the most intense and intellectual white wine I have ever tasted. Explosive notes of petrol, slate, green apple, lemon swirl on the palate with a long, vibrant, coursing finish. The power of this wine is a bit deceiving and a bit shocking. This is clearly 20 years from maturity, yet it was still a pleasure to sample this.
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This and all of the 2001 Prums (Kab, Spat Aus) all have dominant sulphur on the nose. Prum usually sulphurs heavily but these are more so than my recollection of previous vintages. All of them are beautifully balanced and wonderfully complex. Absolutely classic Mosel provided the sulphur goes away as it should.
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I had this last night at Morrell's Wine Bar. The bottle was opened new just before pouring into Spiegelau stemware. Straw to yellow color in the glass. Wonderful nose and flavors of pineapple and pear. Drinking really well. A great summer evening wine. I would peg it in the low to mid 90's range.
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2/25/2024 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 94 Points
Riesling bash at CHIKO (Chevy Chase, Maryland): I wish I had more time with this, but it was beautiful. Dense and rich a full tropical appeal but the taut, racy acidity and crunchy minerals give this a brisk, lip-smacking feeling. Lovely, with so much life ahead.
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2/25/2024 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 94 Points
Fascinating side-by-side with this and the goldkap auslese. They are dramatically different. This one comes across crunchy, mostly dry, with an angular cut and more evolved flavors, several shades darker in complexion flavorwise than the auslese and if not at peak maturity certainly knocking at the door of it.
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1/27/2024 - MN Wine Junkie Likes this wine: 95 Points
PnP - This wine rocks! My last bottle and it was glorious! Nose showed lots of honeysuckle, stone fruit, and tropical fruits, along with some sea shell and sulphur. The palate was equally expressive with lots of stone fruits (peaches and nectarines, with a little apricot) some apple, pear and hints of pineapple and Meyers lemon coupled with minerality from flint, limestone and oysters. The mouthfeel was spectacular with enough acidity to counteract the sweetness. Also, there was the feeling of effervescence as the golden liquid cascaded down the tongue and finished with a sweet, waxy mouthfeel, like a semi-sweet honeycomb. 95+ and I wish I had more! I can't wait for my 2016s to get some more age on them!
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1/19/2024 - rc@ughey wrote: 96 Points
Consistent with my prior note. This is a legend. Everything I look for in wine. This is lithe yet with crazy concentration. Complex yet spherical. It has fine minerals and real depth. Spellbinding.
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12/31/2023 - LDSA Likes this wine: 94 Points
Purchased on release in 2002/2003. Drank on New Year's Eve and shared with family in small amounts. Just a fabulous wine ready to go upon opening. Pale yellow on day one still looking young but not infantile. Still plenty of acidity but wonderfully balanced. The family that was not used to this level of wine was astonished. I'm glad I have a couple more of these 01's as well as some of the GKA.
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12/14/2023 - CurdBros Vino Likes this wine: 98 Points
I have had this wine on several occasions and it is always impressive. This is my personal favorite wine and vintage. The word that comes to mind to me is balance. This wine is super lively for a 20+ year old wine. The acidity and sweetness are perfectly intertwined. I am not great at specific flavor profiles, but I would say tropical fruits, a small custard background, and citrus notes are all present. The petrol note of a good mosel wine is also there which I like. The wine was a pale yellow. Not crystal clear like a young kabinett and not golden yellow like a sauternes. All in all I would say if you see a bottle of 2001 with good provenance, pick it up. It is drinking wonderfully now and has tons of life left for extended cellaring.
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12/9/2023 - j5614.person@gmail.com Likes this wine:
Excellent with honey,citrus and stone fruit. Drank with Spatlese which was also excellent
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11/26/2023 - Vinnut Likes this wine: 95 Points
Medium-light golden yellow in color. Full, forward and attractive nose of ripe fruit aromas of apples, pineapple, mangoes & citric notes of lemons/limes, with overtones of floral notes of honeysuckle & mineral notes, slate, orange peel, honey & a hint of petrol notes in the background. Medium bodied, with a very good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, ripe fruit flavors of honeyed dried apricots, sweet yellow peaches, grapefruit & green apples with some honey, lemon curd & orange marmalade, coconut, minerals & slate. Long lingering & crisp finish. Drinks quite well at 22 years of age & should develop further with additional aging. Fill was well into neck; cork was clean & intact. [AR Nr. 2 576 511 19 02; Alc. 7.5%] An absolutely remarkable wine which shows no signs of its age.
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10/16/2023 - drwine2001 wrote:
Half bottle. Healthy full yellow color. Warm spice, herbs, and orchard fruit but no secondary aromas at all. Richer and heftier feel than I expected. Spätlese level sweetness. Apple jelly, cinnamon, and a more exotic fruit component that accompanies a slate-filled finish. This was impressively fresh but somewhat simple and lacked some snap. Beautifully pure fruit but I was hoping for a little more excitement and tension.
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10/15/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote: 95 Points
Big Arcadian Tasting in ATL Part II, With Joe Davis (1998-2005); 10/15/2023-10/16/2023: Again. This wine is amazing. Fresh, intense, lively, fierce, subtle, moving, joyful. Another incredible bottle. This wine will probably outlive me and I'll leave it for my kids to find out 30 years from now. Probably the WOTN
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9/22/2023 - grafstrb wrote:
-- tasted non-blind over a couple hours on Day 1; revisited on Day 4 --
Everything about this is "young for a 22 yo wine." Youthful color, Nose, and Palate. An elegant Auslese. Medium-light to medium petrol note; concentrated apricot and tangerine flavor. Truly marvelous, and now possibly in its Prime Window, where I suspect it will stay for at least another decade.
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3/19/2023 - chablis28 wrote: 95 Points
Jason's btl for our German, Alsace & Loire dinner in St Paul MN ( Pot hole capital of the US & apparently where snow removal is not high on Mayor Carter's list ). 12 of us gathered for an admirable assortment of Reisling & decent Thai. This was clearly WOTN for me! From the standpoint of weight, purity, elegance and overall harmony this reminded me not a little bit of Taittinger Comte obviously with less effervescence but in terms of sheer class & elegances, very Comte & Dom P like. And, with the lovely Mosel spritz, its in the ballpark of Comte:). Loved it precision coupled with a real sense of mature placidity! This must be a well stored btl as the color was very pale gold and it youthfulness points to more fireworks to come. Just a superb white wine! And, I appreciated that it was less rich & showed only a hint of precise sweetness. The 2001 vintage looks very impressive based on this one btl!
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3/1/2023 - dcwino wrote: 96 Points
Nuits-Saint-Georges and Riesling - Q by Peter Chang (Q by Peter Chang - Bethesda, Maryland): This hasn’t developed much since I last had it in 2015. Expressive nose displaying perfectly ripe succulent white and yellow fruit, white and yellow peach, lemon curd, lemon oil, coconut, honey, white flowers and limestone. Excellent concentration, beautifully layered perfectly ripe yellow and white fruit, a hint of fizz, perfect balance and precision, incredible finesse, bright acidity, strong mineral, and a seamless long perfectly ripe yellow and white fruit driven finish. The has the airy texture of a Chevalier Montrachet.
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11/13/2022 - rc@ughey wrote: 96 Points
Breathtaking. This is firmly in the Pantheon: it has become everything one could ever hope for from a Mosel Riesling. It has a layers of concentrated Riesling fruit with an attractive mineral backsplash. This is bright and spherical and almost completely weightless. It is still sweet but the sugar is so seamlessly integrated that the visceral impression is just of perfectly ripe fruit. As hard as it is to believe, I'd bet this will be even better in another decade, and perhaps better yet in two.
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8/15/2022 - enthusiastic_amateur Likes this wine: 96 Points
Deep gold. Sweetness & distinctive petrol on the nose indicative of German Riesling. Honey, brown sugar, bees wax, syrup on the palate. Great acid throughout. Totally awesome wine!
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8/7/2022 - sirpat00 wrote: 94 Points
Citrus and grapefruit fruit, but also hints of quince. A bit of honey and bee wax. Fresh minty layer as well as a white floral dimension. Decent array of flavors wrapped in moderate intensity. A perfectly fresh and clean, well-balanced palate. A refreshing Auslese with only a splash of sweetness that makes for a highly enjoyable drinking experience, even if lacking the depth or precision of a great wine.
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7/11/2022 - cos65 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Bright gold with a slight spritz
Thick sweet with lovely acidity.
Fabulous with a near immortal feel.
Light enough for dinner, but clearly on the sweeter side
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6/19/2022 - devraj Likes this wine: 95 Points
Brilliant golden yellow in color. Lovely aromas of ripe orchard pit fruits, lemon & orange oils, mango, green herbs and slate. The palate shows incredible depth to the rich custardy orchard, lemon and orange marmalade buttressed by superb acidity, floral and herbal essences, minerals and a long, never ending off-dry finish.
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5/8/2022 - Redteeth wrote:
The wine was mature but absolutely delicious. However, the cork was in bad shape. I have another bottle of this and observe that its cork seems to be having problems. Probably should consider drinking up remaining bottles for that reason.
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5/6/2022 - Matt T wrote: 95 Points
Excellent bottle. Really beautiful nose. Tropical fruit, papaya, and lime with a long finish.
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4/23/2022 - soyhead wrote:
7.5% EtOH. absolutely stunning vibrant lively and fresh wine with a haunting balance of sweet and sour. Per my palate, this wine absolutely knocks it out of the park. Whoa Nelly!
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3/13/2022 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 97 Points
AP #22. This has been open 6 hours or so. A hint of petrol, tons of fresh red apple, a hint of cinnamon, cream - ethereal. The palate is stunning - spicy sweet fruit, cinnamon and hints of pie. The reserves rises, spread their wings and expand to take over the mouth - so sweet, hints of spice and baking note, dough, honey, the levels of flavor and lightness are hard to get my head around, the acid is perfectly integrated. Long spicy dough and apple finish. Profound, heartbreaking and legendary. Nose - 5-5.5/6, Palate - 5.5-6/6, Finish - 5.5-6/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5-2/2 = 17.5-19.5/20.
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1/29/2022 - drmarclevine wrote: 94 Points
Lovely bottle! Golden, honeyed color. Complex notes of Asian pear, butterscotch, and petrol in the glass. Silky mouthfeel with a heavy dose of apricot, under-ripe pineapple, and steeped tea. Long acidic finish that cleansed the palate beautifully. Ready now but will develop further in bottle. Yum!
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12/25/2021 - shifter Likes this wine: 96 Points
Pop and pour. Mold encased cork is always a good sign. Immediately expressive with perfectly ripe orchard fruits, river rock and a hint of the classic Prum petrol. Palate is lush and full with multiple layers of fruit and floral notes, hint of lemongrass and a juicy finish. Goes down so easy, it's hard not to finish the glass in one swig. This bottle was further along than previous specimens, which were still a bit young and primary, which made it a particular joy this evening.
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11/26/2021 - Matt T wrote: 96 Points
From a magnum, this was brilliant with layers of tropical fruit perfectly balanced with acid. Less evolved than the same wine from a 750 a couple years ago. Terrific pairing with turkey.
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9/19/2021 - dhp. Likes this wine: 93 Points
Still a slight effervescence on pour, this was surprisingly less sweet/lighter bodied than I had expected. Beautiful balance, deliciously drinkable in the way that only aged pradikat riesling is.
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8/17/2021 - prof b wrote: 98 Points
I found a slight, recent leak from this bottle so I opened it the following day. This was decanted for about an hour as it warmed up a bit. Holy crap, this was an amazing bottle. There were apricots along with other white fruits, honeycomb, a slight salinity and an epic finish. The acidity kept it all in balance. Amazing.
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7/30/2021 - liber wrote: 95 Points
11th of 12, pnp, perfect cork and level, as March bottle, again spritzy and young! VF (18.5).
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7/19/2021 - BillBell73 Likes this wine:
Leaky, crumbling cork or else I would have held this a bit longer. This is in a good place with gooseberries, lychee, citrus, and high acidity over a moderately sweet core. Endless complexity to the nose and very balanced on the palate, a brilliant wine that seems very young still. Wish I had another bottle tucked away.
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4/10/2021 - NickA Likes this wine: 94 Points
My first of six. Apart from the reduced sweetness, this still seems very young. Better with a bit of warmth rather than fridge-cold, as that brought out some more richness and body. Icing sugar, herbs and struck match on the nose; apple juice, blood orange, cream and honey on the palate; and a nice zing of marmalade on the finish. Wonderfully drinkable but I think future bottles will have even more to them.
Day 2: not much change, but there's a bit more weight and length, and a gingery spice note on the nose and the finish. Increasing score by a point.
Day 4: similar to day 2, perhaps mellower still. Amazing wine.
Day 7: final glass a bit flat (but hey, at least I got my two dry days in this week!)
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3/19/2021 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
10th of 18, pnp, perfect cork and level, unchanged from last bottle noted in Jan 20, ridiculously spritzy and young! VF (18.5).
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2/14/2021 - Rollerball wrote:
OK the nose is currently a slice of heaven. The Andromeda galaxy 45° up from its horizontal plane. I am coddling a baby, then drinking an infomercial's worth of orange juice, then watching the masturbation scene in blue lagoon.
From 375 with an hour in the decanter. Great with steamed Alaskan king crab. Many good years ahead, even in this format.
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12/6/2020 - DerSchonWieder Likes this wine: 96 Points
A fantastic wine. Honey, apricot, orange peel, petroleum and a bit of grassy notes.
Cheers!
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10/25/2020 - decaturwinedude wrote: 95 Points
What to say about this wine. It is amazing, majestic, fresh, intense, lively, fierce, subtle, moving, joyful. It makes you happy to be alive. Another incredible bottle. This wine will probably outlive me and I'll leave it for my kids to find out 30 years from now.
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9/3/2020 - drwine2001 wrote:
Medium yellow. Primary fruit plus a whiff of baby powder which I find at times in German Riesling. Still a bit of JJ spritz. Light to medium weight, off dry rather than an overtly sweet Auslese. Relaxed, perfectly pure apple and peach, spice, faint slate. The acidity is by no means deficient, but it doesn't really bear down on you either. Harmonious and long. At almost 20 years of age and for how open it is, it's amazing how little in the way of secondary mature notes this wine has developed. I could see it perking along gaining complexity for another 2 decades. Already outstanding, it could become majestic.
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8/30/2020 - vindictive wrote:
bright color, beautiful nose of tropical fruits and honey. Excellent acidity and balance. Lovely with dessert and many years to go
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7/30/2020 - galewskj wrote: 95 Points
Virtual Rieslings: Peach and tangy yellow fruit on the palate and finish. This wine is electric, in that it electrifies your mouth. There is a long tingly finish. This is one of the better German rieslings I've experience in my life, and I've had a lot of good ones.
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7/30/2020 - rocknroller wrote: 95 Points
Virtual Riesling Tasting (Home): Light gold color. Wines were opened and poured into vessels between 4-4:30pm, poured into glasses around 6:30pm; drank a glass over 3 hours. Oh boy, this is really good, even better than past bottles that have been impressive. A hint of tingly effervescence on the nose, light fusil, apple blossom, apple, peach, stone fruits, wet stone. The palate is wow, I'll call it flashy with substance; this absolutely demands your full attention, so tangy, great fruit, perfect tingling acidity, apple, peach, tangerine, hints of pineapple, fusil, mineral, wonderful balance, very long and resonant, just great. Unanimous WOTN.
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7/30/2020 - devraj Likes this wine: 94 Points
Light gold in color. Classic aromas of ripe orchard pit fruits, orange oil, honeysuckle, hint of petrol and slate. Fantastic palate shows jellied orchard pit fruit marmalade, pineapple, orange custard, tons of minerals, superb acidity balancing the sweetness that lead to an endless and perfectly off-dry and spicy finish.
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7/30/2020 - I'd Rather Be Drinking Wine Likes this wine: 95 Points
Zooming in on Riveting Rieslings: Zooming in on Riveting Rieslings
All wines prepared as follows: Opened between 4:00 and 4:30, poured into jars for transport, poured into glasses and tasted starting at 6:30. The following wines were tasted:
1995 Nikolaihof Riesling Vinothek
2001 Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese
2007 Dönnhoff Felsentürmchen Riesling Spätlese
2007 Trimbach Riesling Cuvée Frédéric Emile
2012 Willi Schaefer Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese #4
2016 Nigl Riesling 1OTW Privat Pellingen
1997 Taylor Fladgate Porto (Dessert wine)
Groups top 3:
WOTN - 2001 Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese
2nd - (Tie) 2012 Willi Schaefer Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese #4
2nd - (Tie) 2007 Dönnhoff Felsentürmchen Riesling Spätlese
My Order:
WOTN - 2001 Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese
2nd - (Tie) 2012 Willi Schaefer Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese #4
2nd - (Tie) 2007 Dönnhoff Felsentürmchen Riesling Spätlese
4th - 1995 Nikolaihof Riesling Vinothek
5th - (Tie) 2007 Trimbach Riesling Cuvée Frédéric Emile
5th - (Tie) 2016 Nigl Riesling 1OTW Privat Pellingen
2001 Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese: Happy to say that this wine was rocking! Sad to say that I only have one more bottle. Nose showed lots of honeysuckle and bees wax with stone fruit, and some tropical scents, along with some oyster and gun powder. The palate was equally expressive with stone fruits (peaches and nectarines, with a little apricot) some apple, pear and hints of pineapple and Meyers lemon on one hand and minerality from flint, limestone and seashell on the other hand. The mouthfeel was grand, as favors coated the palate and remained there for a long and glorious finish.
I love the precision and balance of this Riesling, reminds me of Yquem in that way, i.e., some sweetness but so balanced out by acidity that it is perfect and harmonious. Wish I had a case (or more) left, as I could see myself drinking regularly!
This is one of the best Rieslings I have had (although I admit I have not had that many), and right in my wheelhouse. Easily 95+ points (and I may be being stingy) Certainly drinking well now, but no hurry! Group's and my WOTN.
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7/18/2020 - drmarclevine wrote: 93 Points
Lovely Auslese. Excellent nose of Granny Smith apple, caramel, and rubber. Bright and fresh in the mouth with pink grapefruit, creamy pineapple, and a hint of smoke. Long and clean finish. Ready now but likely has another stage of development ahead. Perfect with chicken thighs with Indian spices.
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7/11/2020 - WoodieBayArea wrote:
very good but I would say drink up... acidity has faded a bit
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6/5/2020 - rieslinghoarder Likes this wine: 96 Points
Poured in a Grassl Mineralite glass and followed over the course of the evening.
Incredibly youthful despite being nearly 20 years past vintage. A whiff of petrol on the nose with some non-specific tropical fruit aromas, but the palate is where it’s at. Ripe peach, pineapple, orange marmalade, mango, tea leaf, and mint notes keep shifting on the palate, supported by shimmering acidity and well-integrated sweetness. The wine is concentrated yet elegant, with no detectable botrytis, and the finish is quite long ending on peach and orange citrus notes.
This bottle is in it’s adolescence, and I feel the best is yet to come. Glad I have a couple more bottles, and I don’t plan to open my next one for at least another 10–15 years. God I love riesling.
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6/5/2020 - GrapeScott wrote: 95 Points
I went through a phase early in my wine buying life when I was obsessed with Riesling. Sweet. Dry. German. Austrian. All comers welcome. Since then I could probably count the bottles of Riesling I’ve purchased on one hand. Funny how tastes change. Anyway I am sitting on a pile of ‘01s that are probably entering their prime drinking window so thought I would check one out. This is AP# 28. As the Germans love to overfill, this had sos and a saturated cork but the level was still into the capsule. Pours the loveliest gold color with a nose that explodes with tropical and peach notes, and a hint of reduction. With air this picked up some classic petrol notes and pronounced minerals. Viscous mouthfeel with orange marmalade, clover honey, stone fruits and chalk, finishing with crisp acids and steely minerality. This has it all and is about as good as Riesling gets.
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5/9/2020 - shifter Likes this wine: 97 Points
Classic Prum petrol nose with underripe nectarine and citrus. Balanced weight. Palate is complex with stone fruits and apple. Long and lingering finish. This is so much more open than the GK at this point. Drinking beautifully in that perfect window, but has the goods to last another 20 years.
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1/30/2020 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
9th of 18, pnp, perfect cork and level, outrageously good, young, and spritzy, almost a cremant on the first night, better on second and third nights after the flavours had settled. VF (18.5).
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12/30/2019 - Jd6725 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Tonight it’s a 92-93. I’ve had this bottle where I’d call it a 95-96. Very good and tart but this one tastes slightly watered down with a little less pop. Maybe less sugar. Small amount of seepage and could smell the Riesling outside of the cork
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11/24/2019 - Matt T wrote: 94 Points
This was leaking, but the wine was still in good condition. Much more advanced than a bottle two years ago. Slight effervescence on night one. Tropical fruit, honeydew, and lime, but leaning toward the riper and less acidic side.
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9/21/2019 - Nanda wrote:
Wow, that is an awesome nose. Rich, decadent white fruit, tropical, florals and mineral. Sweet, ripe, round white fruit. There is modest acidity, but I'd like more. Really love that nose.
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9/21/2019 - acyso wrote: 95 Points
HDH auction at Spiaggia; 9/19/2019-9/21/2019 (Chicago, IL): #20-02, 7.5% abv. Yeah, that's the stuff. This is unequivocally one of the wines of the vintage. The only problem is that this is still just too young. It's surprisingly fizzy with a good touch of effervescence. The only issue with this wine is that it really is just too young. Good herbs, fruits, and minerality. Needs like 20 years.
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8/8/2019 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Meant to be the wine to manage some of the early spicy Korean treats although I arrived at dinner after those had mostly been consumed. It's still a very nice wine. Great acidity. Easy to drink. Class.
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8/6/2019 - SteveHyde Likes this wine: 95 Points
Exceptional. Beautiful clarity, depth, dimension. Fabulous at 18 years. Retains vibrancy, with soft citrus notes, honey, white flower, hay, and mineral tones. Touch of sulfur on opening blows off quickly. Greath finish.
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7/28/2019 - juffer Likes this wine: 92 Points
Nose of salt air and peaches. Relatively light weight in mouth. Long elegant finish, with residual sugar well absorbed. Touch of petrol.
P.S. Unusual and sad experience with this bottle. Kept under pristine temperature controlled cellar conditions, but for some reason one day the cork exploded right off the bottle on the shelf with no discernible explanation. Only about about 5 ounces remained in the bottle, but both the wine and the cork (other than being separated from one another!) seemed in perfectly good condition. Very strange.
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7/22/2019 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
8th of 18, pnp, perfect cork and level, as March bottle, yardstick Mosel, young yet. VF (18.5).
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6/14/2019 - Guy Des Rosiers Likes this wine: 93 Points
Medium golden core. Peach, peach, peach - more peach - then some honey, raspberry and chamomile. Not markedly sweeter than the Spatlese, with crisp acidity. As interesting as the nose is (and it is amazingly complex!), the palate is still surprisingly muted by comparison - simple, stunningly primary, hardly showing any development at all. This is still ridiculously young, and in evident need of more time in the cellar. As the Soup Guy might say: "No soup for you! Come back five years."
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4/28/2019 - rocknroller wrote: 94 Points
Monthly Tasting Group: Rieslings (Ngon Bistro, St. Paul, MN): Light gold color. Drank a glass over 30 plus minutes. Good at the start but really takes off over the first 20 minutes. Still has that great fruit, a bit less on the nose, though it builds, fusil, mineral, peach, candied apricot, orange, slate, perfect balance. Loved it.
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3/29/2019 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
7th of 24, pnp, perfect cork and level, little change from last bottle in 6/18, still in youthful maturity. VF (18.5).
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3/15/2019 - Torchy wrote: 92 Points
Uncles Fine Wine Spring BYO (Home): Elegant and typical tropical tones. Great balanced with delightful and welcoming fruit. Tropical mix, mango and apricot. The fruit was a bit slimmer than expected in an Auslese.
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1/17/2019 - chbeaumont wrote: 94 Points
Faint spritz, pale; hessian, white flowers, delicate, delightful; exquisite, pitch perfect; beautiful. Lingering finish.
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12/28/2018 - bear wrote:
The bad news - this split had a bad cork - couldn't pull it, it crumbled, and there was evidence of a small amount of leakage.
The good news - it still tasted good! Probably not as good as it would have been without the bad cork, but still very, very drinkable. Lots of mild, refined fruit, and a little bit of brioche taste, all nicely integrated. I have never drunk this wine before and only had the one bottle, so I really have nothing to compare to.
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11/27/2018 - DrinkBordeaux wrote: 95 Points
A beautiful wine that's just starting to hit its stride. The acidity and sweetness are remarkably balanced, and the fruit and petrol marry well together. I'm glad to have more of this in my cellar, but will wait awhile before popping another.
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11/20/2018 - etc wrote:
Needed something to drink after I found out some of my wine is missing. Major depressed.
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11/3/2018 - salil wrote: 96 Points
Two and a half years since my last experience with this, so I thought I'd check in on another. It hasn't budged much. It needs a lot of air to clear most of the sulfur - this was double-decanted several hours in advance, and even then there's a whiff of sulfury funk that lingers on the nose. Beneath that is an absolutely incredible Riesling with layers of youthful fruit, minerality, florality, and just faint hints of the creamy and smoky development that should come with more time. It's a very light wine but there's such piercing intensity to the flavours, tremendous acidity that gives a mouthwatering, slightly tart sensation to the finish, and impeccable balance.
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10/14/2018 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
Vinetasters: 2001/2005 Joh. Jos. Prüm (Skokie, IL): #19-02, 7.5% abv. Definitely shows a bit of that earthy funk that this wine is famous for (perhaps it's the sponti?). Underneath the sponti is green herbs and some tart fruit, in a much more subtle and less overt expression. The palate here again is simply outstanding -- refined and balanced, with so much going on. It's never in your face -- this is gentle with a little bit of earthiness to add to all the fruit here. Finishes intensely long. Just not showing incredibly well today though, I think...
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6/2/2018 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
6th of 24, pnp, perfect cork and level, even spritzier and younger, wonderful quality and tension. VF (18.5).
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5/20/2018 - 87tellub Likes this wine: 95 Points
Pretty youthful in appearance. Cork in great shape and popped right out with a cheap corkscrew. Wonderful complexity on the nose which gives off clean sweet melon; then petrol; tons of slate; pear; white flowers. Burst of acidity. Sweet yellow apple and the palate develops a creamy texture late with a touch of caramel banana. Right on the money Prum Auslese. Long - easily a minute plus of real presence, and then you can still catch traces off it for another minute or so.
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5/19/2018 - grafstrb wrote:
Ridiculously excellent. Still a baby. Paired nicely with stinky cheese and crackers. Stunning!
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3/15/2018 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
5th of 24, pnp, cork stuck, crumbled and pulled through middle (a pain!) but wine super, just a little more now showing than last April's bottle and even better on second night, years of life and just a bit more to it than last week's 02. VF (18.5).
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3/3/2018 - chcook Likes this wine:
PNP. cork perfect. color is light straw. nose starts out with some sulfite that blows off with air. palate remains youthful and bright, with a mix of primary and secondary and the acid propelling the palate and keeping the RS in check. delicious, but i think has significant time to resolve the RS. Thanks mike!
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2/24/2018 - TavyDog wrote: 93 Points
Gardenia, apricot, ginger, chamomile, saffron, diesel. Acid dominating the fruit which is the opposite of 5 years ago.
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2/22/2018 - gris Likes this wine: 93 Points
Still young; a delicate wine with a long life ahead of it. Crisp with good acidity still present. One taster thought it lacked body and concentration and wondered if it was just a stage it was going through. Others (DD) argued to save bottles for the long haul.
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12/29/2017 - Matt T wrote: 93 Points
Cork on this was completely dried out, so I was a bit worried this had not survived. Poured into a decanter and strained out the cork bits. Golden edge with a bit of effervescence. Really nice acid and a mid-palate of vanilla and honey. Almost Sauternes-like. Drank the best on day three. This seems like it stilll has many years to go.
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12/15/2017 - drwine2001 wrote:
Half bottle opened since it was leaky. Healthy yellow color with some spritz. Intense baked Golden Delicious apple, background honey, and later some petrol. Light to medium weight, off dry, tremendous fruit, acidity, and concluding slate. From this small format, just reaching early maturity. Fantastic, restrained old style Auslese that is just kissed by botrytis and is a food wine rather than being overly sweet.
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12/3/2017 - Easter Everywhere Likes this wine:
Fantastic! Long life ahead.
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11/11/2017 - CMN Likes this wine: 96 Points
White fruits, with golden apple, comice pear and lemon layered over a subtle streak of stoniness, with a whiff of smoke for good measure. On day one the acid was quite prominent, on the second day, the wine seemed more integrated; definitely worth a decant at this stage. Medium weight and super fresh. Complex, but still very much an infant. While incredibly delicious now, this will only continue to improve for years to come. Wait a minimum of 5 years if you only have one. So, so, so, so good.
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9/6/2017 - ews3 wrote: 95 Points
Just a beautiful bottle. Honeyed apricot, white grapefruit, slate. The sweetness is there but somewhat reserved and nearly covered up by the intense acidity. Long finish shows some nice white floral notes. Outstanding with Szechuan food.
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7/29/2017 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 91 Points
Very nice with medium plus sweetness and medium plus acidity, classic pear fruit profile, no complaints but I would have liked a tad more acidity (tho to be candid I am an acid addict), went well with steak tartare (as did the '89 Beaucastel)
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7/14/2017 - Rollerball wrote: 93 Points
The perfect amount of everything. Saline celery. Sweet salty graham. Basil and slate. Lemon stone and clove. From 375. Drinking great but no rush.
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6/18/2017 - chbeaumont wrote: 92 Points
Pale; fragrant, deft; expressive, effortless; fine finish. At its peak. For now & next decade.
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6/17/2017 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 93 Points
Wine-Pages Glasgow Festival of Wine Post Offline (The Western Club, Glasgow): Lemon straw colour.
It feels older on the nose than 2001, with some smokey notes.
Lovely, clean, precise appley, sweet fruit. Not at all that sweet. Really elegant. Really classy.
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4/14/2017 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
4th of 24, pnp but drunk over 3 nights, perfect cork and level, just beginning to show and reveal itself. VF now, better in 10 years!
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4/9/2017 - Old Doug wrote: 97 Points
Little bit of petrol, good bit of vivacious, dancing acidity, so seamless in its cold sweetness, juicy beyond most reckoning. A great wine experience. My wife and I had 12 bottles, now only 1 left. Sadness, but life goes on and we're very glad for this wine.
With this bottle there was a pause after the sweet/acid balance hits you, where the varied fruits and flowers parted enough for the mineral foundation to be apparent. Heaven.
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4/8/2017 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points
Dinner at Bellecour (Bellecour, Mpls, MN): Medium golden color. PNP, drank 1 glass over 45 minutes. Very youthful and exuberant currently. Very ripe and tropical fruits, mango, pear, pineapple, fusil, and citrus blossoms. The palate has adequate acid and the same tropical styled fruits, powdery sour fruited dry extract on the finish that lifts this somewhat. Still rather youthful, but ever so tasty.
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3/15/2017 - acyso wrote: 95 Points
Dinner at Table, Donkey and Stick (Chicago, IL): #28-02, 7.5% abv. This has always been a perennial favourite wine of mine and it's perhaps one of the most consistent and best Mosel rieslings of the decade. The nose on this is absolutely gorgeous, with just a slight hint of petrol starting to emerge from the tons of fruit that make up the nose of this wine. The palate has started to also evolve some secondary characteristics as well, but mostly it's still a story of dense fruit and crisp minerality in an intensely concentrated package (but not super intense -- that's the Goldkapsel). Well balanced and light, this is what Mosel riesling is all about.
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3/11/2017 - paulst Likes this wine: 90 Points
Flowered; lightly honeyed with lemon and apple; good balance; light acidity; good finish.
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2/19/2017 - Herb K wrote:
gorgeous wine, served with some seared, foie gras..
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1/2/2017 - Stevelayden Likes this wine: 98 Points
AP 28 02. Opened for New Year's Eve. After a glut of new release 2015 Germans I wanted to be reminded what a great vintage can do with some age. Haven't been collecting long enough to have purchased this upon release but I purchased second-hand through a reputable site and storage had obviously been top notch. Cork came out with no issues at all and wasn't saturated much beyond a third of the way.
Flavors are out of this world! Drop dead sexy mature Riesling nose and color is starting to take on a golden hue. Actually smelled quite a bit more advanced than it was. The taste itself was liquid joy! Wild and fruity with endless layers of complexity. Strong acid backbone and still had that youthful effervescence on the tongue. A finish that you just kept yearning for through the rest of the evening.
Even after a string of amazing wines recently, this took the cake. Riesling perfection!
On an administrative note, I had the AP 19 02 a year or so back and wasn't nearly as impressed. Perhaps a bad bottle, but it just makes me more careful when I choose AP numbers to fill out my back vintages.
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12/30/2016 - heythatslife wrote: 94 Points
A stunning beauty of a riesling. A gorgeous perfumed nose of baby powder, honey, pear, lemon, and tropical fruits; a little bit of smokiness and florals too. On the palate, there is solid minerality, and as the pleasant sweetness fades it reveals the racy acidity that undergirds the wine's structure and persists through a long, mouthwatering finish. It was a great introduction for my friends who had not experienced riesling with some age previously.
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12/27/2016 - Vino Me wrote: 96 Points
Opened by Jcubed. 3rd time I have had this wine. This was the most complete and rounded of the 3 German Riesling opened. Slightly less sweet than when I last had it. Notes of apricots, star fruit and a minerally/slatey finish. This wine does not disappoint and 15 years old. 96 points.
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12/26/2016 - AllRed wrote: 93 Points
Courtesy of jcubed. Peach, stobe fruit, honey and diesel notes. Terrific presence on the palate with stone fruit and diesel and a long finish. Tonight this just felt a little short on acidity but otherwise fired on all cylinders. 93-94 pts.
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12/5/2016 - paulst Likes this wine: 94 Points
Sweet and sour; peach-lemon-nectarine-tangerine; acidity is there; semi sweet finish with good structure.
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11/23/2016 - walkerjfw wrote: 95 Points
Chilled, PnP, drank over 2 hours. Wanted to check in on this one again.
From prior notes: "Classic Prum nose, lime, citrus, petrol. Still tastes young, some faint fizz still in the bottle as with young rieslings. Sweetness and acidity are balanced. Medium to light bodied, medium finish..." Still young, but in a really great spot now. more orchard fruit, baked apple, homey than I recall from last tasting, and more viscous mouth feel. Great "Thanksgiving flavors" with the orchard/apples, would go well with main courses
This is really delicious at this point, will still go a while (10+ years) if wanting to cellar it.
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8/20/2016 - acyso wrote: 95 Points
#19-02, 7.5% abv. This has got to be one of the best bottles of widely-available riesling ever made. The nose is quite reductive, though there isn't any stinky sulphur here. It's more of a matchstick quality, though there's plenty of white fruit as well. I think the palate is the most impressive part of this wine -- sure, it's plenty sweet and sour, but what's startling here is the sheer amount of mineral extract that makes this wine seem almost dry. This is just so jam-packed with stuffing, I've no problem seeing this going on for decades. But if you've got a few bottles of this, pop one open now. It's insanely delicious just the same.
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7/17/2016 - For the Love of Wine Likes this wine: 95 Points
This was my favorite of the night. It is amazingly young, even for 2001. The nose was perfumed with honeysuckle, pineapple, stone fruit and even some lavender, with a hint of petrol (similar to a Sauternes). On the palate it was crisp, but with fruit and sweetness to match. I would say the acidity is more dominant than the fruit right now, but the sugar definitely keeps it in balance. Very enjoyable now, but I feel it will improve quite a bit with more bottle age. I am glad a few more bottles of this and will likely wait a few years before popping open another one.
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7/17/2016 - galewskj wrote: 92 Points
Rieslings and a couple reds (Ray and Teresa's): Slightly austere, good structure, a 2007 Spatlese actually tasted sweeter today. This drinks quite young, I think it needs to turn the corner, but it was still quite enjoyable. 92+
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6/25/2016 - jmoore431 wrote: 93 Points
Medium straw colored; waxy, stoney, fruit orchard, great saline minerality. Beautiful showing! Group fave, my #3.
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6/22/2016 - cweiss Likes this wine:
Peach Farm. Beautiful deep sweet fruit, but still incredibly light on the palate. I love this wine. Drinking well and will for many years.
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6/17/2016 - Rollerball wrote: 93 Points
Pineapples, cream, and lemon kale; savory Apple cinnamon; lime. Medium finish; gently balanced. vinturi'd from 375
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6/2/2016 - Kemo Sabe wrote:
Unfortunately not my thing. For those not that versed - this is a sweet wine. I was hoping for dry which is why residual sugar should be on every label. Having said that the nose on this wine is utterly amazing. Jumps out of the glass and something I could smell all day long. In the mouth loads of candy and sweetness.
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5/27/2016 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 92 Points
good, but not as good as the '97 had alongside, this had good sweet fruit and some acid but a bit less that the '97 and therefore merited one point lower
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5/7/2016 - liber Likes this wine: 94 Points
3rd of 24, pnp, perfect cork and level - as last May's note if showing a tad more development and dimension...2 years from maturity. F+ (18).
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4/21/2016 - salil wrote: 95 Points
Monumental Auslese. So painfully young, yet so complex - though this was double-decanted several hours before dinner, and then a third time afterwards. Despite the decants, a whiff of sulfur and sponti yeast funk still lingers on the nose, but beneath that there's an array of classic Mosel fruit flavours over a slate/stony mineral base, with the savoury and mineral flavours only getting more intense and vivid with air. The balance and length here are spectacular, and I'm glad I have a lot more in the cellar. This is already spectacular now, but I can't begin to imagine what this may turn into with a couple more decades (at least)!
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4/21/2016 - indiscriminate palate wrote: 93 Points
Apparently, this was opened six hours prior to tasting. Remarkable youthfulness, with the exuberance and vigor of a 2009, but with incredible class, depth, and acid. Despite the multiple decants, still holds on to a bit of spritz and sulfur--unwilling to yield to its age. Apple, flowers, great sweetness, even better acidity. Primary. Joyful! Drink now or in ten years or in thirty years or in fifty years. Like Dorian, this doesn't seem to age.
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4/1/2016 - blanquito wrote: 91 Points
Petrol, honey, stony nose. Young, sweet, dense but with oodles of that 01 acidity. Expressive yet coiled and holding a lot back for future decades.
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3/13/2016 - Rollerball wrote: 94 Points
Perfect with spicy, salty Chinese dishes: thick hand rolled noodles in spicy sesame sauce, dry fried string beans, and pork with cabbage. From 375.
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2/7/2016 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light yellow with some retained spritz. Apple nose, no honey or petrol. Light, off dry, intense apple jelly and spice with superb buttressing acidity. At age 15, I did not detect the slightest hint of secondary development. This will live and improve for ages!
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11/20/2015 - Old Doug wrote: 96 Points
Funky petrol on the nose but WOW - the taste put both my wife and me back in our seats. Nice, very slow progression going on as this bad boy ages.
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10/25/2015 - YourFanNan wrote: 95 Points
Perfect for its late october back-yard function but not always my kind of wine. Sweet but not too sweet. Smells faintly of urine.
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10/25/2015 - Rollerball wrote: 94 Points
From 375. Burgeoning complexity meets ethereal balance; a masculine dancer.
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9/3/2015 - dcwino wrote: 94 Points
Lost Thursday Wine Lunch - Blacksalt (Blacksalt, Washington DC): Still quite youthful nose with only a hint of petrol, mostly succulent yellow fruits, lemon curd, grapefruit, hard yellow peach, sweet spices and limestone. Excellent concentration, a hint of fizz, succulent yellow fruit driven palate impression, quite dense/oily but strong acidity provides beautiful balance and lovely long sweet and sour finish that resonates. Quite dense and ripe but beautifully balanced. Long life ahead.
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8/24/2015 - dharrison93 Likes this wine: 97 Points
Drank cold with friends with dinner of Indian food. Exquisite layered composition of candied fruit, minerals and lime with a finish lasting forever. Wish I had 100 cases of this.
If a date, this was a well-preserved former 1980s lingerie model turned entrepreneur-intellectual who can discuss any subject with knowledge and insight
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8/4/2015 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 90 Points
great drinking, even if a bit simple, for those who like riesling this is easy to down, liked by all etc, good acid but not big acid, lots of sweet pear, nice and lovely at 9% alcohol (best i can remember), have some in offsite storage and i hope to be able to see how this tastes in 10-15 years
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7/30/2015 - SteveHyde Likes this wine: 93 Points
Beautiful, and has years ahead of it.
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7/1/2015 - RajivAyyangar wrote: 88 Points
2001: A Wine Odyssey Berserker Offline @ The Palace (The Palace Steakhouse, SF): Summary:
From the famously steep “Sundial” vineyard, this wine is a classic Mosel Riesling (soil is blue and devon slate).
This wine is so young, so primary, and so classic! I was surprised by the strength of the burnt match, but it seems (according to the interwebs) this is perfectly normal for young Prum Riesling - especially from the Sonnenuhr vineyard. Moderately sweet, light, and saffron-scented, with good varietal character and sparkling acidity.
Score: Between 8.5 and 9.
Visual:
Clear, day bright, medium-straw with moderate concentration. I’m a bit surprised this was lighter in color than the Cuvee Freddy - especially since this has botrytis on it, and that usually hastens oxidation and thus deepening of color.
Nose:
Light burnt match (reduction), which yields to a light (but present) tone of petrol/pool-toy (TDN). There is a slight hint of grapefruit pith (thiol character), and a moderate influence of botrytis (warm saffron and rice tones). Fruit wasn’t dominant for me.
Surprisingly youthful and moderately complex, with both varietal character and botrytis influence. The burnt match certainly evokes a sense of warm crushed stones (Terroir!). The fact that it seems to be a reductive character doesn’t change the magic of this combination. I’m becoming more and more convinced of the argument that minerality is in fact the combination of high acidy and moderated reduction.
I think this probably needs a lot of time — decades, perhaps — for the struck match aromas to subside and for secondary and tertiary aromas to develop.
Palate:
Off-dry (I wrote ~15g/L, but given the ripping high acid it could be in the 30’s or 40’s).
Low alcohol (not even diminished - I feel almost no alcoholic heat). ~10%? [actually 7.5%].
Solidly high acid, both malic and tartaric, though initially the acidic spark is softened by significant sweetness.
No phenolic bitterness.
Superb balance with sweetness lifted by strong acid.
Complexity is just moderate at this point - I think it needs significant age to develop further.
The finish is long, with sweetness and acidity neck-and-neck.
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7/1/2015 - aagrawal wrote: 94 Points
WineBerserkers Offline - 2001 Tasting (The Palace, Mission, SF): Light yellow-golden color; distinct nose of petrol, pear, limestone; palate has richness, great acidity, balanced sweetness, lemon-lime, very fresh, great balance; long finish. 93-95
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5/31/2015 - Marc wrote: 93 Points
John's Birthday Degustation Dinner (Hippopotamus Restaurant, Museum Hotel, Wellington, New Zealand): Still a complete baby - tasting fresh as a daisy. Some SO2 and rubber hose notes on the aroma. Great nose of wet slate with a tangy mineral laced palate of only subtle perceived sweetness. Taut in the mouth with amazing definition and length, this was not sweet enough for the dessert that was served but on its own, it was a wine of superb poise.
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5/22/2015 - liber Likes this wine: 93 Points
2nd of 24 - pale, some spritz; nuance developing, quite floral, some stone, refreshing lime; light but long and intense, super balance, refreshing fruit. dimension developing hints at much more to come early days yet. I find these wines need about 15 years before they start to develop. Should improve on current fine plus (18/20).
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4/26/2015 - paulst Likes this wine: 94 Points
Smooth and silky with an elegant lemony honeyed fruit; lightly acidic; paired well with salt and pepper prawns as well as hummus and soft washed rind cheese.
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3/20/2015 - kodreaming wrote: 93 Points
Slightly rough comparing to the GK. Overall, lovely wine.
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1/26/2015 - Mlermontov wrote: 93 Points
JB at Fernando's House: Needs time. Started of with SO2 but that blew off. Only showed its real colors hours later - when there was merely a quarter of a glass left. Ripe core, apples and pears in the middle mixing with peaches. red berries on the finish. classic Mosel floral notes. this will be stunning - but i wouldn't open it now.
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1/24/2015 - Sennma wrote: 94 Points
This is so great. Shows well now but many many years ahead. Clover honey with white fruits and flowers. So long on the finish. This wine shows you the greatness of German riesling.
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1/23/2015 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
The Prüm Dinner (Chicago, IL): #28-02, 7.5% abv. Wow, what a stunner. This is such a pretty wine, with so much complexity all over the board -- on the nose, on the palate, on the finish. A very strong floral component comes across on the nose, and that honeyed component finds its way on the palate, where it's washed away by a laser-guided and precise stream of acidity. 2001 for the win again!
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1/22/2015 - coremill wrote: flawed
Mostly Prum with Duck (Peking Duck House): I think there was something wrong with this bottle. Not very expressive aromatically. Loads of sugar on the attack, not much midpalate, turns bitter on the backend. Not at all what I would have expected from this bottling in this year.
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1/17/2015 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light yellow. This smells like a stroll through an orchard, all manner of flowers and recently cut yellow apple. Some baby powder as well but no botrytis and no secondary fusel. The freshness and youthfulness carry through to the palate. Mosel weight with slightly more gloss, and to put the residual sugar in perspective, I think some 2009's Kabinetts taste sweeter to me, but I would have probably called it a lower residual Spatlese had I tasted it blind. Great purity of apple with some lime sneaking in late with terrific balancing acidity and a long slate-filled finish. Absolutely marvelous and much too easy to drain quickly because it is so delicious.
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12/27/2014 - Harry Cantrell Likes this wine: 94 Points
pale gold. Nose a mellow mix of vanilla, minerals, cirus and pear. Taste was an amazing balance of sweet and acid, citrus, mango, pear. Spatlese in sweetness appearance. Delish
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12/22/2014 - Remony wrote: 93 Points
Still a touch of spritz on opening, and seems a bit too sweet. A little unctuous right now, perhaps, needing more time. But quite delicious nevertheless, and will be much better when it loses some of its primary appeal. [AP 20 02]
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11/28/2014 - SteveHyde Likes this wine: 93 Points
Amazing wine, drinking beautifully now but with years ahead of it. Went perfectly with the full range of food served at Thanksgiving, from turkey and stuffing to the various sides. Layered citrus and floral notes supported by great structure, wet slate, and lots more.
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11/27/2014 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 90 Points
very nice with gentle acid and sweet fruit -- apples, pears and hint of grapefruit… a bit simple however, therefor the score was modest
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11/24/2014 - bill00 wrote: 95 Points
Another great bottle of this with consistent notes. Shimmering gold colored. Petrol, flowers and peach. Palate is concentrated and dense but this wine feels weightless on the finish. Everything is so well balanced - a great wine.
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11/19/2014 - WoodieBayArea wrote:
NR as it was an add-on after eight bottle tasting, everyone loved it and Chris kept talking about the petrol on the nose, i almost got plastic / rubber, palate was nice, clean and youngish to me (but i had had a lot to drink by the time i tried this one)
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9/16/2014 - alr6767 wrote:
No formals, but this is outstanding. Needs 5+ years to shed more of the sweetness and allow the secondary complexities to come to the fore.
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8/18/2014 - Vino Me wrote: 96 Points
Opened by Allred. Wow. Even better than the last time I had it. Deep golden color but much lighter on the palate than the color would have you believe. Just a light spritz at first. Smooth and silky with many layers. Notes of slate, tropical fruits and ripe peaches. Still has a solid acidity to hold everything together. Long and round finish. I have 1 bottle left and will probably hold it until it is 20 or 25 years old. 96 points.
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8/16/2014 - thelostverse wrote: 95 Points
Wow - just wow. Opened by Allred at Gourmet III. Peach with other stone and tropical fruits. Long lip smacking finish. Beauty.
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8/16/2014 - AllRed wrote: 94 Points
Whereas the JJC is ready to go, this is actually still quite youthful and could use some time. Lighter in color than the JJC with aromas of slate and sulphur, peach and stone fruit. Has a bit of spritz on the palate, with bright acidity and flavors of ripe peach and slate and a finish that lingers for well over a minute. Very happy to have four more of these beauties. AP 2 576 511 19 02. 94+ pts.
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4/19/2014 - BillBell73 wrote: 94 Points
Very young, tasty, but better with another ten years on it.
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4/15/2014 - MicklethePickle Likes this wine: 93 Points
Deep yellow-gold. Intoxicating nose of apple, lemon and lanolin. Excellent palate with racy acidity perfectly balanced with full apple fruit flavors. Mouthfilling and rich. This has it all going on right now. Finish is outstanding and very long and lovely. Light on its feet but with plenty of fruit stuffing. No sign of decline at all, this should last and last. Very enticing and refreshing. 4-13-17-9: 93/100.
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3/1/2014 - Fur in the glass Likes this wine:
Ended the evening with this one. Decanted 20-30 min, great deep color, musky/melon-like nose. Wonderfully integrated honey and citrus fruits. Lucky to be on a roll with German Rieslings recently that keep me coming back for more
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2/21/2014 - walkerjfw wrote: 92 Points
At Bistro Jeanty in Yountville, capping off tastings pre PNV. I brought this one as a first wine of the night.
Classic Prum nose, lime, citrus, petrol. Still tastes young, some faint fizz still in the bottle as with young rieslings. Sweetness and acidity are balanced. Medium to light bodied, medium finish. Was a great aperitif/first wine for a big evening.
Will go for a while if you are inclined to cellar, will be fun to drink remaining bottles over next 10 years to see how it evolves.
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2/15/2014 - fcxj wrote: 90 Points
Delicious
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2/3/2014 - bill00 wrote: 94 Points
Beautiful aromatics dominated by florals, also key lime and hints of petrol. Terrific balance as the sweetness and acidity are totally in sync. This is great - so easy to drink.
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10/23/2013 - Rob_Sutherland Likes this wine: 93 Points
Still tastes like it was bottled yesterday. While wonderful and youthful, I wouldn't open another for a min. of 5+ years if you like some age on them as this had none.
Clear light yellow, barest hint of fizz, not a drop of petrol. I had to hide it from my wife. As it was it was gone in 30 minutes but it would have been gone in 10 otherwise, wonderful stuff.
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6/14/2013 - cweiss wrote:
Great as always as finishing touch of a Riesling and Syrah tasting
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5/9/2013 - cweiss wrote:
PF. Beautiful as always.
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9/21/2012 - Screameagle wrote: 94 Points
Just starting to show it's potential this is a wonderful riesling that is only going to get better over time. I have more of this wine than any other wine I have in my cellar. So happy that I do.
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7/4/2012 - hkfoebee wrote:
Remember it showed well.
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5/29/2012 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
Dinner at Les Amis (Les Amis, Shaw House): Wow. From a 375ml quickly decanted to blow off any sulphur or spritz, this was gob-smackingly good. While still very young, it was clearly starting to open up and strut its stuff, starting with a glorious nose that little drizzles of kerosene amongst flowery notes of orange blossoms and nectar and honey, a lovely core of subtly sweet stone fruit aromas - think nectarines and white peach here - a twist of orange peel and then some typical Sonnenuhr accents of vanilla and white chocoate. Gorgeous stuff. The palate was a bit less developed, still clearly a tad too young, but it had this mindblowing balance, with a tightrope-walking display of acidity and sweet fruit held in perfect, graceful tension that grabbed the palate and refused to let go. While not quite showing off the complexity that one suspects it will in time, this was was nevertheless quite wonderfully integrated, with already beautiful and quite multifaceted flavours of orange blossoms and tangerines, nectarines and peaches, some juicy red apples and then, towards the long, elegant finish, white flowers and even a touch of marsala spice. Brilliant, brilliant stuff. A complete wine, that should only get better in the bottle. When paired with some blue-cheese, this was the perfect end to a brilliant meal.
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5/12/2012 - Remony wrote: 95 Points
[AP 20 02, 7.5% abv] Gorgeous auslese, but still too young. More than a touch of spritz on opening; fantastic balance however between fruit & acidity. No sulphur. Great depth and harmony; not too sweet, never cloys. A bit naughty to open my first of only 5 bottles tonight, but I have spotted some more on a merchant's list, and am hopeful of more than replacing just this one delicious bottle. Had to try one before ordering more!
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5/5/2012 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light and still some spritz. Apple, yellow peach and honey. Moderately sweet, beautiful acidity to balance. Even from this format, little secondary development. Classic, gorgeous.
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4/13/2012 - rnellans wrote: 94 Points
Beautiful riesling aromas with hint of petrol. On the palate nice bright acidity that is balanced beautifully with lush fruit...zippy finish...It should age well.
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4/8/2012 - Le Musigny wrote:
Nice citrus and minerality. The sweetness one would expect with an Auslese, but not overpowering. Very nice for a warm spring day.
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2/13/2012 - salil wrote: 93 Points
Decanted an hour in advance and still was still showing some sulfury funk when poured and after plenty of swirling. Beneath the sulfur are layers of incredibly pure and fresh Mosel fruit, floral elements and slatey minerality; there's great balance here with a sense of real purity and clarity to the flavours, bright acidity balancing the moderate sweetness and impressive length.
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12/24/2011 - Old Doug wrote: 96 Points
Some yeast and sulfur on the nose when first poured, then quickly floral and fruity. Palate of peach, citrus, honey, mango, cantaloupe, pear, tangy apple leading to the beautiful acidity in this perfectly balanced wine. The best Riesling finish I've ever had, with an element of raspberry showing up. While the wine is not overpowering, even with a full mouthful, a very tiny sip brings impressive flavor.
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12/18/2011 - peternelson wrote: 92 Points
Petrol notes with blue cheese; taught, touch spritz with high acidity and much brightness and pure sweetness; young, very clean, very sweet. 92 now but with potential in 8-10 years plus.
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12/18/2011 - WetRock wrote:
EWG - 2001: A Taste Odyssey (Conrad Green's Abode): There are some mineral qualities peaking out from a the copious sulfur. Very effervescent with a bit of a bite. Clean and light bodied with an oily texture. This is gonna need some time or lots of air. The sulfur did dissipate some with swirling and time but the wine remained a bit inexpressive. Rest.
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11/19/2011 - grafstrb wrote:
Hotel Terravina (Southampton, UK): -- popped and poured --
-- tasted non-blind over 30 – 45 minutes --
Strong diesel and classic JJ Prum aromas on the Nose. A wee bit of spritz upon pouring. Palate reveals a wine bursting with intense electric energy! Appropriately sweet for an Auslese, with incredible precision of flavor and zippy/tangy acidity that cuts through one’s palate like a freshly-honed Samurai sword. Classic Prum WS flavors and structure, but wrapped in a package of incredible (perfect?) intensity, precision, cut, and clarity. Still young – obviously – but is presently emerging from its youthful shroud. This will certainly continue to improve in the cellar over the next decade, and will likely drink very well for another decade or two after that. A jaw-dropping, mouth-wateringly wonderful example of its type. A young Classic. To my palate, this is superlative today and seems poised for future perfection. Bottle kindly provided by kingkanu.
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11/3/2011 - cweiss wrote:
Prum Wehlener Sonnenhur Dinner (Peach Farm, Chinatown, Boston): Delicious as always. Ripe apple, below fruit, slate, still quite primary. Auslese sweet and certainly ripe, but impeccable balance and light impression on the palate. Beautiful wine. My favorite of an extremely good flight.
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9/28/2011 - drwine2001 wrote:
I haven't had this in 3 years, and it seems as though it has hardly moved, but that's fine with me as it remains in a beautiful, if youthful, place. Light yellow. Cidery, apply fruit with just a whiff of stone fruit and flowers but no secondary Riesling aromatics yet. An old style Auslese in that you'd never guess the Pradikat since the sugar is so well leavened by acidity and minerality. After a few hours, just a kiss of honey shows. What a wine!
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8/19/2011 - salil wrote: 94 Points
AP #28. Still dominated by sulfur aromatically (and it took quite a while to blow off), but underneath the sulfur is a stunning, seamless combination of ripe Mosel fruit, honey, slate and florality conveyed with amazing freshness and purity with fantastic acidity moderating the sweetness. There's a sense of real polish and gloss to the texture, superb balance and impressive length. Great wine.
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7/4/2011 - Russell Faulkner wrote:
Very racy, tense style, engaging. Excellent
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6/28/2011 - cweiss wrote:
Dong Khahn. Lovely, seamless, focused, packed but elegant. Appropriate sweetness, impeccable balance. In a word, class. Drinking fine now and for a long time.
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6/24/2011 - Jack Cranley wrote: 95 Points
I just about melted when I took my first whiff of this wine. It smelled like heaven. Slate, white flowers, and petrol all plentiful. What really knocked my socks off about this wine though was the mouthfeel and how perfectly integrated the acidity was with the residual sugars. It was soft and velvety without being syrupy and the acidity cut through without being brash and sharp. You just couldn't ask for a better balance. Long complex finish topped the whole experience off on this very special bottle. Will continue to develop for many years to come.
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4/24/2011 - vintage61 wrote: 90 Points
Popped and poured at Starla's tonight. I hope this was way too young or an off bottle. Light golden color with muted nose and palate. Palate was primarily grapefruit, not what I look for in a riesling. Slight sweetnes peeking out from behind the grapefruit. Starla seemed to like it much more than I. Hopefully this will come around in years to come as I have a few more bottles, but I will refrain from buying anymore. Score based more on reputation than my experience tonight.
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3/6/2011 - cadamson wrote: 90 Points
I think this may be in an in between stage...not quite old enough to get the good aged flavors, but over its youthful exuberance. Sweet, not sure if the acidity is enough to check it. Honeyed, good flavoring, perhaps needed to be a bit cooler.
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12/25/2010 - NJWINO! wrote: 95 Points
Bottle showed a little seepage and top half of cork crumbled when opened. Aside from that the wine showed very well. Extremely balanced wine where the acidity holds the sweetness in check. Apple & citrus on the nose; very sweet on the palette with lots of citrus and minerality and the finish just lingered effortlessly on & on. Also noticed tiny bubbles in the glass. Possibly the best German Reisling I've had to date
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10/22/2010 - NY Wino wrote: 96 Points
Light yellow color with a nose that jumped out with of the glass. The wine has excellent acidity and beautiful citrus, peach & pineapple fruit. What a delightful wine. I suspect that it can age for at least another 10+ years.
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8/28/2010 - ews3 wrote: 94 Points
Riesling Tasting (Schloss Roberts): lime, peach. really stunning acid puts this into excellent balance. this drinks extremely light and young for the amount of sugar and the 10 years of age. Long finish.
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8/28/2010 - jrobs7777 wrote: 93 Points
Riesling - First The Rest (of the World), Then The Best (Germany) (Our House (2033 Brandywine St.): Still young and fresh. Citrus, peach, tropical fruit. Nice lemon and minerals on palate. Creamy peach. Terrific creamy finish with nice minerality.
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7/16/2010 - Cheryl wrote:
TWERPS World Cup Blind Tasting (La Cave a Fromage, London): Rich, round, good mouthfeel, honey. Maybe too sweet as well. Ok.
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7/16/2010 - MRichman wrote:
This was a bit dull. Sweet with a lot of spritz, not much acidity, complexity or balance. I'm hoping this is just a bad phase for this wine.
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5/18/2010 - rralls wrote:
AVV Dinner at Nam.
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5/10/2010 - Rupert wrote:
Pale, prickly, powerful, not fully expressive, but so much going on, this will be fantastic
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4/24/2010 - STEVEN@WINECELLARCLUB.COM wrote: 93 Points
Floral nose. Balanced acid vs sugar. Still young
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4/6/2010 - Grape Stomper wrote: 97 Points
Agree with all here said except after one hour it was losing it's luster and life. We had it for Easter dinner with traditional Honey Ham. Opening was simply a delight and ditto to all. It might have been my bottle but I think it's ready now. I will drink my next one in a few months and report back.
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3/10/2010 - salil wrote: 96 Points
Still an infant, but already spectacular. Starts out a little tight at first with bright peach, citrus and yellow plums over an intense slatey minerality - but with some air this really takes off, opening out aromatically and developing beautiful floral and herbal accents on top of the fruit and slate. Fantastic precision and balance with really good acidity that makes it feel incredibly light on its feet - a wow wine, even though it has years ahead. (AP #19-02 for those who keep track.)
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1/16/2010 - pmevans wrote:
Drank one of these after dinner when Julia visited from college with her friend Vince. He likes rieslings so I gave him another bottle to take with him. For whatever reason, I've really lost my desire for German Riesling. Yes, it has a nice nose, but they are just so light bodied, kind of spritzy, and low on alcohol they just don't light my fire. If I'm going to drink a sweet wine, I much prefer having a Sauternes with some ooomph to it. I guess my tastes have changed over the years.
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1/10/2010 - markellen.foodies@gmail.com wrote: 93 Points
Brilliant acidity. Ellen used a cup in her Meyer Lemon Panacotta. So I naturally drank it with it.
Paired perfectly. Will only get better.
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11/13/2009 - hkfoebee wrote:
Less sweetness and more spritz than I remembered, which is a good thing. Will sit on last 2 bottles....
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11/3/2009 - hkfoebee wrote:
alright showing. tough to introduce amongst 96 monte bello, 07 kb rr, 01 ducru and 04 rm occidental. less sweet and more spritz than i remember...which is a good thing.
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9/13/2009 - suttonri wrote: 94 Points
No sulfur on the nose here. Pale yellow transparent color. Lots of citrus on the palate with lemons, pineapple, grapefruit, and a hint of lime. Lots of honey and a little lychee peaking out of the mix. Still very primary but wonderfully complex. The best white wine of the year so far.
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6/29/2009 - dbkitc wrote: 98 Points
Identical to other bottle.
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6/29/2009 - dbkitc wrote: 98 Points
Stunning wine that is drinking better than I would have thought at this young age. Everything I could ever want in German Riesling: complexity, balance, intensity, length. The profile will change with greater age, but there is no harm in trying this now after a good shake. A monument. (98+)
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6/21/2009 - hkfoebee wrote:
Another great showing. Perfect with BBQ Oysters!
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5/10/2009 - hkfoebee wrote:
Toned down from last showing. Spritz-like tannins with a soft citrusy midpalate. Certainly not the beast of what it used to be...
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2/16/2009 - hkfoebee wrote:
Not as full bodied as I remember it but it certainly didn't have the chance to open up as this was consumed in less than a half hour. Should have known better...
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1/1/2009 - hkfoebee wrote:
Great pairing with curry duck and tomato beef. Vegetable oil in color. Not as sweet as the previous bottles. Drinking extremely well with honey suckle minerality and a mid-length finish. Yummy!
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12/31/2008 - cweiss wrote:
My largest individual wine holding, but first bottle drunk!
Plenty of R.S. there I'm sure, but quite racy despite the ripeness of the year and the pradikat. Really fine. Minerals and yellow fruits. Surprised to find it drinking so well now, but clearly will evolve over many years.
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11/24/2008 - hkfoebee wrote:
What a difference 2 years make! Great backbone/acidity. Vibrant with pineapple/honey nose. Great with curry!
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8/5/2008 - Lukeout wrote:
spritz on opening. Rich mouth feel, great acidity, clearly has decades to go...
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7/28/2008 - jeff nowak wrote:
AP# same as kstoddard. comments from dull to mildly corked.
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7/28/2008 - kstoddard wrote:
G7 (Rick): Pale yellow in color. Tastes of pineapple and apple. Nice acidity and stone minerality. Rich finish. Seems a bit flat and off. Should be quite similar to the goldkap of the same year but shows very little resemblance. AP#25765112802. 7.5% alcohol. Would rate this in the the mid to high eighties but since I suspect it's an off bottle, rating withheld.
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6/17/2008 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light yellow. Open nose right out of the bottle with apple jelly, kumquat, and faint citrus. Very pure fruit, minimal botrytis, long and complete with excellent density, and not that much sweeter than an '05 Spatlese tasted the other night, no doubt due to its firm core of acidity. This is youthful, quite primary, and vigorous, as evidenced by the fact that it did not change one iota over several hours, but it is a wonderful drink now if you can live without the more aged Riesling characteristics. I expected a much more closed wine given recent reports of many '01s showing poorly. Achingly beautiful, years of life ahead.
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4/4/2008 - sweetstuff wrote: 96 Points
TN: Joh. Jos. Prüm 2001 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese (white capsule), AP 2 576 511 28 02; $32/750 ml, Village Corner, Ann Arbor, MI; 7.5 pabv; Rudi Wiest Cellars International, Carlsbad CA. As is usual, plenty of different AP numbers for these; one other I remember seeing is 19-02.
Found a bottle with a slightly protruding capsule; as I didn't remember seeing this before, I thought this would be a good bottle to either enhance or reduce the worries about the 2001 Auslesen.
The cork was protruding about 2 mm. Not the best of corks--it was so jammed into the bottle that it needed an Ah-So to remove it.
Does Manfred really use them this short?
Polished gold. Plenty of spritz.
Opens with typical Prüm yeast stink, but that's nearly gone by the time I decant. Clover flower and honey. with a little lanolin underneath, and springwater running over stone. Later I notice how amazing the empty glass smells--a mile deep and very complex; with the dominating note cigar smoke.
Big, powerful, fully-extracted, with pointed white-wine tannins giving plenty of texture to the mouth, added to the tingly minerality. On the other hand, has plenty of definition as well. Has great impact on the mid-palate. Honey and tangerine of a great vintage; at present most of the the bee products are hid, except the honey. A rich Auslese in style, especially for a white cap, with very ripe acidity. Extremely long, with a superb, etched, orangeaid-like finish, with a hint of tobacco smoke and suggestions of high-toned sesquiterpenes, like a clean pininess.
Surprisingly, still extremely young-seeming, and an enormously pleasurable drink, something you don't expect at seven years with these wines. But don't use me as an excuse to commit infanticide among your Prüm 2001 Auslesen. 96/100.
For reference, here's what this wine tasted like shortly after release in April 2003, five years ago, to German wine aficionado John Trombley:
Has a nicely polished warm, anodized gold color.
Sweet grass, lime, thyme, peach, with spring airs of clover flower.
The palate is crisp, ripe, and balanced between tartrate and malate Crisp and honied, with a military, almost martial air; a Chambertin of a Riesling, perhaps 4-5 percent fruit sugar, glucose, and glycerin. This gives moderately sweet Auslese material; this will be a fairly dry Auslese selection as time goes on.
Plenty of lees aging as is typical for this producer, giving a distinct, sulfurous wet wool impression that demands integration over time for best results. As this wine should be purchased for cellaring, this does not present a problem for those who know them or who are willing to find out how they behave with bottle age. 96/100: it’s difficult to understand how the Spectator gives this wine less than it give the Himmelreich Auslese, except for relative ignorance in the case of German wine.
Happy I have more of this, and a few Goldkaps, too.
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3/13/2008 - SirDodo Likes this wine: 94 Points
Full mouth taste of a sugary orange with vanilla and hints of cinnamon. Ready to drink now. Unclear whether more age would help.
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3/2/2008 - ClassicWater wrote: 95 Points
An early peak. With quite a few of these in the cellar, I decided to see where they stood. Plenty of that Prüm sulphur on the nose but tucked beneath it are layers of honeysuckle and chalk and a touch of citrus. The palate is precise and bright having shed its baby fat yet still sweet enough to scream Auslese. The star here is the acidity -- so much more present on day two. It supports all of the delicate minerals and vibrant peach flavors and subtle yet precise honey, apricot, grapefruit skin before returning to a intense honeysuckle finish. This is as profound as the vintage had me expecting, an absolute stunning wine. Don't be content with how good this wine is on day one as it becomes breathtaking on day two. And in the end I'm so glad to have taken an early plunge. 95+ points.
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8/5/2007 - ews3 wrote: 94 Points
Great, youthful flavors with concentrated sweetness, but enough acidity to provide good structure. Excellent, but a long life ahead of this wine yet.
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4/21/2007 - psmith wrote:
Pure and fresh Riesling fruit. Medium-sweet with great body and backbone. Sulfur not so prominent anymore. Very good wine.
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12/20/2006 - Pacherant wrote: 91 Points
A light white floral nose, hints of green fruit, petroleum jelly and delicate honey. A delicate, semi-sweet palate with lemon and a honeyed gentle finish. delicious and will last some time, I'm sure.
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12/4/2006 - Vino Me wrote: 94 Points
This was the #20 that I tried. I was surprised by how well this was drinking. Allred brought a bottle of this to Anwars house last weekend. No sulpher notes and surprisingly fresh and open. Not decanted. Sweet but not a dessert wine. Still showing much of its youthful zest with just a touch of spritz left. Slate driven with green apple and some tropical notes. 94+ points.
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12/2/2006 - AllRed wrote: 94 Points
So yeah, this is young, but I have a few and have been itching to try one. On the nose, some petrol, a touch of sulphur and rich stone fruit notes rise from the glass. The palate is rich and unctuous, with peach, apricot, honey and sulphur flavors. Very long finish.
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9/2/2006 - mdavis wrote:
This wine is singing right now...Certainly not very developed at this stage, but fully open on the palate...Slightly closed on the nose.
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7/22/2006 - JeffGMorris wrote: 91 Points
AP #19-02. Decanted 6 hours. This very young and still primary wine, even after 6 hours of decanting, had a straw color to it. Medium bodied with crisp, tart acidity of the lemon/lime variety. Full of green apples and slate, there was a richness and concentration to the wine that really shows the potential for the future. Very deep flavors. Medium length finish that I believe will show more in the future. Really enjoyable today but what a future. 50+13+12+8+8 = 91++
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3/4/2006 - BradE wrote:
Burgundy At Dale's (Dale's House In Honolulu): Not tasted by me, but others at this dinner thought it was good. They preferred the Kabinett to the Auslese though.
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1/1/2006 - psmith wrote: 92 Points
Young Prum sulfur on the nose with some ripe peach, pineapple, and apricot notes accompanied by a mineral streak. Full on the palate with a crisp balanced acidity and some spritz, though not nearly as much as a bottle at the beginning of 2005. Great balance and body, just needs some time.
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7/5/2005 - jamiekutch wrote: 95 Points
Light gold - The bouquet lights up the room like a chandelier. It was like walking into the fruit section of my supermarket. With hints of plums, peaches, berries, and garden fruit all checked into place with wonderfully balanced acidity and with cashmere softness on the palate. A perfect pairing for my Hawaiian Mahi Mahi and its peppercorn glaze. Heavenly.
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1/20/2005 - Eric wrote: 93 Points
Dinner at Nick's Fish House. AP #2 576 511 28 02. I had this alongside an appetizer of ahi sashimi and an entree of whole-fried Moi in a light soy glaze atop black rice. The wine was utter liquefied diesel and mineral, the most intense and intellectual white wine I have ever tasted. Explosive notes of petrol, slate, green apple, lemon swirl on the palate with a long, vibrant, coursing finish. The power of this wine is a bit deceiving and a bit shocking. This is clearly 20 years from maturity, yet it was still a pleasure to sample this.
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7/11/2003 - Jock wrote:
This and all of the 2001 Prums (Kab, Spat Aus) all have dominant sulphur on the nose. Prum usually sulphurs heavily but these are more so than my recollection of previous vintages. All of them are beautifully balanced and wonderfully complex. Absolutely classic Mosel provided the sulphur goes away as it should.
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6/19/2003 - wineismylife wrote:
I had this last night at Morrell's Wine Bar. The bottle was opened new just before pouring into Spiegelau stemware. Straw to yellow color in the glass. Wonderful nose and flavors of pineapple and pear. Drinking really well. A great summer evening wine. I would peg it in the low to mid 90's range.
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