JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese WK 2017 (750ML)

97 WA / 97 JS / 95 WE / 16.5+ JR

The 2017 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese is intense and concentrated on the nose, with raisin, grapefruit and even vegetable aromas at the moment. This is highly attractive and noble on both the nose and palate. The wine is lush and dense on the palate but highly elegant, crystalline and fine, revealing a highly stimulating, salty-piquant and intensely aromatic and complex finish. This is an outstanding wine, and it's highly digestible. Tasted in March 2019. Stephan Reinhardt - The Wine Advocate

 Such supreme concentration and completeness with a flinty nose that also carries spicy elements and a swathe of white pepper, white peaches and mangoes that follow through to the palate with a seamless build of super fine and elegant fleshy texture and a succulently focused, long and super juicy ride to the long, fresh and seemingly dry, mineral finish. Drink over the next decade or more. - James Suckling

Whiffs of smoke and crushed earth blow off quickly with aeration to reveal succulent white-peach, yellow-cherry and grapefruit tones. It's unabashedly fresh and forward in fruit, yet anchored by a core of stony mineral tones and zippy light-saber acidity. It's a hedonistic yet impeccably balanced wine that drinks well already but will improve well through 2035, and likely beyond. - Wine Enthusiast

Real struck-match aromatics here! Orchard blossom. And then sugary. Hasn’t come together yet. Lots of acidity. Lots of structure. Like scaffolding around a beautiful building. Hasn’t yet been revealed. - Jancis Robinson