Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett 2023

Name: Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett 2023
Brand: Joh. Jos. Prüm
SKU: 90289723
Price: 78.50 USD
Availability: InStock

750ml

$78.50

Wehlener Sonnenuhr is named after the sundial erected in the vineyard in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm, an ancestor of J.J. Prüm, to give the workers a better time orientation. The Wehlener Sonnenuhr vineyard has become intrinsically attached to the name of Joh. Jos. Prüm. The Estate owns five hectares of this majestic site. It offers perfect growing conditions for the Riesling grape with its deep, weather-beaten grey slate soil, good water support, extreme steepness of up to 70 % gradient, and its optimal south-south-west exposure. The wines of the Wehlener Sonnenuhr possess excellent structure, show beautiful, ripe aromas and notes of stone fruit, a fine minerality, and great depth and length. After having been aged for some years, the harmony, finesse and expression of these wines is unique.

White • Dry • Fruity, Mineral, and Aromatic

Riesling

Mosel, Germany

Spicy Fare, Sushi, Camembert

Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett 2023

$78.50

Joh. Jos. Prüm

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.