2023 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese
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The 2023 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese (Gold Capsule / Auction) opens with a very intense but elegant and delicate as well as flinty bouquet with smoked fruit aromas. Very refined and highly elegant on the palate, this is a super finessed and filigreed, weightless, crystalline and irresistible Auslese with a long, intense yet always refined and stimulating saline finish. A fabulous Auslese indeed! 7.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine from AP 18 24 in January 2025.
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
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AP number 12 24. Complex aromas: lightly fumy/herbal, white mushroom, almost peppery in its citrus freshness. Tastes sweeter than the Graacher Himmelreich Auslese. Utterly pure and embryonic, generous in fruit but with a terrific acid backbone. Needs time. (JH)
The 2023 Riesling Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese, made with virtually no botrytis from ripe grapes, offers equal notes of grapefruit peel, juicy peach and lemon. The extreme finesse of the Prüm style meets the site's elegance, with stony lemon running like a central vein through the linear, elongated body. Such finesse, lightness and filigree nature, yet so much depth. Simply astonishing and a paradigm of site and style.
About the producer
Joh. Jos. Prüm is the benchmark estate of the Middle Mosel, renowned for Rieslings of exceptional delicacy, precision, and longevity. From the legendary slopes of Wehlener Sonnenuhr to Graacher Himmelreich, their wines capture a singular balance of lightness, tension and mineral purity.