Joh Jos Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese 375ml 2021

Joh Jos Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese in half bottle is a naturally sweet Riesling from a steep slate site on the middle Mosel, picked in tries at Auslese ripeness.

Wehlener Sonnenuhr, the sundial vineyard directly opposite the village of Wehlen, is the estate’s home site: precipitous, south-facing and rooted in weathered blue Devonian slate that gives wines of great delicacy and cut. Joh. Jos. Prüm, based at Wehlen and led by Katharina Prüm, is the reference point for Mosel Riesling in this idiom, and Auslese here is a step up in power and intensity rather than simply in sweetness. The fruit is picked in successive tries, in this vintage across the first two weeks of November, and the wines were bottled at 7% alcohol. Fermentation is slow and spontaneous, the wines rest long on their lees in traditional Fuder, and they are released with the faint reductive spritz that has always marked the house style and underwrites their extraordinary longevity. In a cooler year such as this the Auslese wines show a delicacy and detail that riper vintages do not, with the sweetness carried on very high acidity rather than sitting on top of it.

It can be drunk now but will gain for decades, and is too fine for sweet desserts, the half bottle simply arriving at maturity sooner; serve at 8–10°C with roast pork, ceviche, Sichuan or Cantonese dishes, or a plate of washed-rind cheese.

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