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.

The 2024 vintage required careful selection due to pressure from spring frost and summer humidity, leading to limited production but high-quality Botrytis (noble rot) for the Auslese and higher classifications. The Graacher Domprobst vineyard is a top-tier site known for producing deeper, more mineral-driven wines compared to the adjacent Himmelreich. This wine is off-dry to sweet, with intense aromatic complexity, mineral tension, and great aging potential.

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.