2023 Joh Jos Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese
2023 Joh Jos Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese

2023 Joh Jos Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese

97 pts
Joh Jos Prum |Mosel |Riesling
A glorious Spatlese with incredible intensity from one of the great producers of the Mosel.
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Description

This is the benchmark Spätlese from J.J. Prüm’s most revered site. Wehlener Sonnenuhr has long been the crown jewel of the estate—producing wines of lift, longevity, and unmistakable Mosel grace. In 2023, it delivered one of the most refined expressions of this cuvée in recent memory.

The vintage gave Prüm wines a kind of luminous intensity - light-bodied, yes, but with incredible drive and depth. This Spätlese has all the hallmarks: fine white peach, crystalline citrus, cool slate, and that signature shimmer of floral lift. The sweetness is feathered in - present but perfectly integrated - and the finish stretches with effortless length.

What sets the 2023 apart is how much detail is already on show. It’s drinking beautifully in youth, but it’s also precisely built for the long haul. Stuart Pigott called it “a totally distinctive feeling unlike anything else on Planet Wine.” He’s right.

A defining wine from a defining producer - there’s nothing else quite like it.

97 points
“In a masterpiece like this it takes on a totally distinctive feeling unlike anything else on Planet Wine. The white peach fruit, white flower aromas and slatey minerality all tingle on your palate, then flicker on and on in a totally fascinating manner in the nearly endless finish. The touch of sweetness is already beautifully integrated, although the wine just began a decades-long life. Drink or hold.”
- Stuart Pigott (Jamessuckling.com)

96 points
“The 2023 Riesling Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spätlese opens with a serene, stony, salty slaty breeze. The palate is exquisitely fine and very bright, luminous even, soaring upward as it reaches down into the slate, embodying the total elegance of the site. Slenderness and serenity are exemplary.”
- Anne Krebiehl MW (Vinous)

97 points - “The sensuous curves of Art Nouveau design and joyful flourishes of rococo both give an idea of what Mosel riesling elegance means, but in a masterpiece like this it takes on a totally distinctive feeling unlike anything else on Planet Wine. The white peach fruit, white flower aromas and slatey minerality all tingle on your palate, then flicker on and on in a totally fascinating manner in the nearly endless finish. The touch of sweetness is already beautifully integrated, although the wine just began a decades-long life. Drink or hold.” - Stuart Pigott (Jamessuckling.com)

96 points - “The 2023 Riesling Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spätlese opens with a serene, stony, salty slaty breeze. The palate is exquisitely fine and very bright, luminous even, soaring upward as it reaches down into the slate, embodying the total elegance of the site. Slenderness and serenity are exemplary.” - Anne Krebiehl MW (Vinous)

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. As for the Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, 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 wines of the Wehlener Sonnenuhr generally possess excellent structure, show beautiful, ripe aromas and flavours (typically stone fruits, like peach, nectarine, apricot), a fine minerality and great depth and length. Especially after having been aged for some years, the harmony, finesse and expression of these wines is unique. Riesling guru Stuart Pigott has written; “Joh Jos Prüm’s Sonnenuhrs are classic examples of the way in which the best Mosel wine’s natural sweetness magnifies, rather than obscures, their character. These are a perfect marriage of Riesling’s peach-like, floral and mineral aspects. White wine cannot be fresher, more vivid and delightful.”

Price Bracket $101 and Above
Type White
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Riesling
Variety Style ["Sweet Riesling"]
Country Germany
Region Mosel
Feature High Score
Iconic
Women in Wine
Reviewed By James Suckling
Vinous
Critic Score 97
96
Size 750ml
Vintage 2023
Closure Cork

Joh Jos Prum

Founded in 1911, and sporting one of the great unbroken track records for quality (save a short reprieve during World War II), J.J. Prum is one of the great wine producers of Germany, and indeed, the world.

These rare Rieslings are legendary for their incredible longevity, purity, and articulation of place. They are touted by critics as some of the finest examples of Riesling to be found anywhere on the planted. As Stephan Reinhardt once wrote, "the world always seems a better place with a glass of Prüm in hand."

The Prum family has seen the estate through three generations, with current director Dr. Katharina Prum taking hold of the reins during the 2007 harvest. With Katharina's commitment to tradition and quality from her family's label, J.J. Prum is sure to remain one of the benchmarks of the Mosel for decades to come.

Dr. Katharina Prum, Mosel Joh Jos Prum

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