Region: Mosel, Germany

Vintage: 2019

Composition: 100% Riesling

History: Joh. Jos. Prüm needs no introduction to Riesling lovers, having already become a Mosel icon during the nearly five decades during which its namesake’s son Sebastien was in charge. Katharina Prüm has been active alongside her father, Manfred, since early in the new millennium, and the two of them perpetuate a house style that has itself become a Mosel archetype: wines of delicacy and restrained sweetness, often strongly marked in youth by yeasty and otherwise fermentative aromas, and tingling with dissolved CO2. Their longevity is legendary, and the Prüms personally don’t care to drink their own wines – even the Kabinetts – with less than a dozen, and usually many more, years in bottle. The aromas of youthful Prüm wines make it obvious that fermentation here is entirely spontaneous. Manfred makes no secret of his longstanding disinterest in legally dry wines. These are uncompromising, benchmark Mosel wines.

Tasting Notes:

Once again, the wine gods smiled upon the Mosel, as the JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese is the latest in a string of superb growing seasons, making this a line-up of unequivocal must-have cellar gems. Caramel and honey notes on the nose. A full-bodied wine with slate, minerality and green apple on the palate. Great by itself or with Asian cuisine.