2024 Joh. Jos. Prüm "Graacher Himmelreich" Riesling Spätlese, Mosel, Germany
ABOUT THIS WINE
Katharina Prüm describes the 2024s as being “milder” than the 2021s – another cool year – “with no lack of anything, nor any extremes.” The sweetness up to Spätlese level presents in tasting as secondary to saltiness and freshness, the wines impeccably animated and pure.
Prüm's sloping vineyard in the Middle Mosel, Graacher Himmelreich, just overlooking the river, is a Riesling slated for long life. Schisty slate gives Prüm's famous Rieslings yielding wines of precision, unencumbered by the unavoidable richness and depth. The grapes are harvested by hand, with the 2024 vintage harvest beginning on October 1st, with Spätlese quality grapes selected throughout October. The winemaker describes this wine as full of aromas of light peach and apricot, expressive acidity, stone fruit, and deep minerality.
ABOUT THIS PRODUCER
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.
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ABOUT THIS WINE
Katharina Prüm describes the 2024s as being “milder” than the 2021s – another cool year – “with no lack of anything, nor any extremes.” The sweetness up to Spätlese level presents in tasting as secondary to saltiness and freshness, the wines impeccably animated and pure.
Prüm's sloping vineyard in the Middle Mosel, Graacher Himmelreich, just overlooking the river, is a Riesling slated for long life. Schisty slate gives Prüm's famous Rieslings yielding wines of precision, unencumbered by the unavoidable richness and depth. The grapes are harvested by hand, with the 2024 vintage harvest beginning on October 1st, with Spätlese quality grapes selected throughout October. The winemaker describes this wine as full of aromas of light peach and apricot, expressive acidity, stone fruit, and deep minerality.
ABOUT THIS PRODUCER
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.
