2020 | Joh.Jos.Prum | Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese (Magnum)

Description

White wine: 2020 | Joh.Jos.Prum | Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese (Magnum)

The bouquet is the quintessence of this great terroir, offering up a complex constellation of pear, apple, white cherry, vanilla bean, a hint of honeycomb, a gorgeous base of slate and a topnote of orange blossoms. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and bouncy, with excellent acidity, laser-like focus, excellent balance and grip and a very, very long, youthful finish.

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Producer: Joh.Jos.Prum

Ratings: WA | 98JS | 97

Vintage: 2020

Size: 1.5L

ABV: 7%

Varietal: Riesling

Country/Region: Germany, Mosel

The bouquet is the quintessence of this great terroir, offering up a complex constellation of pear, apple, white cherry, vanilla bean, a hint of honeycomb, a gorgeous base of slate and a topnote of orange blossoms. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and bouncy, with excellent acidity, laser-like focus, excellent balance and grip and a very, very long, youthful finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2020 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese is intense and complex on the still introverted but complex nose that shows clear, bright fruit aromas (baby pineapple) intermingled with fine, flinty slate notes. What an aristocratic appearance! Round, crystalline and saline on the palate, this 2020 Auslese is openhearted and fruity as well as frisky.

• James Suckling: Although this is still very young, it shows fabulous aromatic complexity, the summer-flower, peach, apricot and passion-fruit aromas of breathtaking beauty. Very concentrated and super-filigree, the considerable ripeness beautifully balanced by mineral acidity that provides enormous vitality at the enormously detailed finish.

Producer Information

Joh. Jos. Prüm is easily one of Germany’s most famous wine producers. The estate is based in the village of Wehlen on the banks of the Mosel, and produces top-quality Rieslings that are noted for their balance and longevity. J.J. Prüm’s wines are highly collectable, and are consistently included on Wine-Searcher’s Most Expensive Wines list. The Prüm family has been making wine in the Mosel for several hundred years, but Joh. Jos. Prüm was founded properly in 1911, by Johann Josef Prüm. The estate was taken over by his brother Sebastian in 1920, the year that Joh. Jos. Prüm created its first sweet Auslese wine, and from there went on to become one of Germany’s most well-known and highly respected wines. It has remained in the family since. Joh. Jos. Prüm has some 20 hectares (50 acres) of vines spread out over several Erste Lage vineyards. Almost half of these are found in the Wehlener Sonnenuhr vineyard, which makes a range of styles under the Prädikatswein system, including Auslese, Beerenauslese, Eiswein and Trockenbeerenauslese. These are undoubtedly the estate’s most prominent wines, although wines made in the Graacher Himmelreich and Bernkasteler Badstube vineyards are also highly sought after.