2020 JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett #12

The 2020 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett offers a discreet and sublime, complex and very elegant and slightly flinty nose with a coolish and very delicate expression of stewed apricots but also some greenish berries, whereas the first stony character remains. This irresistible and noble bouquet leads to a round and lush yet also refined and savory palate, with coolish apricot flavors on the long and sustainably salty finish that is firmly structured but elegant and highly stimulating. This is a superb, very elegant and complex, sustainably structured Sonnenuhr. This is already a great pleasure to drink, but you can keep this Kabinett for more than three decades easily. 8% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine from AP 05 22 in July 2022.

The 2020 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett is flinty, pure and nicely reductive on the clear and stimulating, herbal and stony nose. Vivacious and lush on the first palate, this is a mouth-filing, stimulating, salty and salivating Kabinett with generous but elegant and refined fruit and the typical sulfur dose of a classic Mosel Kabinett. You will either love it or hate it. Fine grip on the finish. 8.5% stated alcohol. Screw cap. Tasted from AP 6 21 in November 2021.

Even more inscrutable on the nose than the Graacher Himmelreich Kabinett from the same vintage! But real density on the palate and the firmness and acidity are such that this almost tastes like a dry wine. Absolutely classic J J Prüm with considerably less obvious sulphite influence than at one stage. But I assume that SO 2 has played a part in this wine's reticence. Sensation of molten light honey on the very end despite the initial dry impression. Recommended to the patient. (JR)