Wehlener Sonnenuhr, Riesling, Auslese, 2020

Name: Wehlener Sonnenuhr, Riesling, Auslese
Brand: JJ Prüm
Price: 250.9 GBP

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justerini & brooks tasting note

The prickly tension of the deeply mineral Sonnenuhr arrives in waves as one tastes the Auslese. Much more deeply fruited than the Himmelreich, it offers up herbal notes of sage, earth and cracked spices atop cool mango, apricot and lemon balm. Very intense and a bit reserved it is nevertheless perfectly weighted, and again the sugar-acid balance really is seamless; with every Pradikat change the wines just build on inner tension and focus. A wine with everything in place to age for decades. 7%.

critic reviews

98/100Stephan Reinhardt,Robert Parker 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 much more openhearted and fruity as well as frisky and frivolous than it pretends to be on the nose. This is a really Catholic Riesling or a picture-book Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese. Its finish, however, is Protestant: rigorously linear, straight and with serious structure and grip. All in all, this is the world's most ecumenical Sonnenuhr. Pure fascination. 7% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine from AP 38 21 in July 2022.

DRINKING WINDOW 2022 - 2090

date of review 08/2022