Joh. Jos. Prüm Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese 2024 750ml

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. (Stephan Reinhardt)

Still very youthful on the nose, this is crammed with ripe peach, plus more delicate notes of pineapple and mangosteen. It’s a minor miracle that this kind of concentration can be packed into such a sleek, medium-bodied palate. What an amazing mouthfeel this has thanks to the seamless integration of slatey acidity and ripeness. Very long finish with spot-on balance. Drinkable now, but best from 2025. (Stuart Pigott)

The 2024 Riesling Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese, without any botrytis to speak of, flirts with peach bathed in orange zest with a gorgeous frisson of bergamot. It has a serene sweetness, delving deep into ripe, golden peach flesh. The 2024 is gorgeously framed with tangy citrus on a beautifully contoured body that is so racy, sleek and smooth. What a class act. (Sweet)

The interplay of white peach and complex floral flavors with salty minerality makes this Auslese really stand out. Concentrated but also very vibrant on the medium-bodied palate. Extremely long, salty finish with great drive and raciness. Drinkable now, but best from 2027.

Opulent yet strikingly precise, this Auslese opens with layers of glazed apricot, white nectarine, and Meyer lemon curd. Subtle hints of orange blossom, pear jelly, and crystallized ginger weave through the aroma, giving it both lift and allure. The palate is silky and concentrated, with piercing acidity that threads through the sweetness and keeps everything effortlessly in balance. Mineral undertones add definition as it glides toward a long, radiant finish. A beautifully composed young sweet wine, with serious aging potential. Drink through 2050.

The 2024 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese offers a remarkably fine and sophisticated nose of crushed slate, salt, blackcurrant, peach and lemon rind. The wine is filigreed yet intense and persistently saline, dense, complex and very long. This is a fabulous, highly digestible Riesling Auslese from one of the Moselle's most famous crus. AP 12 25. 7.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in March 2026.

The 2022 Riesling Wehlerer Sonnenuhr Auslese opens with a notion of baked peach, especially baked peach skin, aromatic, slightly caramelized with concentrated fruit. Peach compote sweeps onto the palate, ripe and still with bite, just as cooked peach flesh appears, expressive and sweet but not overdone. This entire flight is a lesson in restraint. The long finish and aftertaste are tempered with citrus, corralling that expressive peach. Lovely, restrained, elegant. <br/><br/>

An impressively balanced and expressive auslese, with a plush well of guava, passion fruit and apricot preserves set against a wall of minerals. Alpine herbs and vibrant acidity give this a zingy freshness and racy feel, which carries the opulence well. Plum skin bitterness and some good structure make this complex and harmonious. Stunning. Drink now through 2045. (Kristen Bieler)