| Region | |
|---|---|
| Subregion | Germany > Mosel |
| Colour | White |
| Type | Still |
With almost nine hectares of vines in the beautiful Himmelreich vineyard, Weingut Prüm is one of the most important vineyard owners in this truly special terroir. Their 2018 Himmelreich Kabinett AP #3 is a beautifully refined wine on both the nose and palate, with the bouquet offering up a youthfully complex blend of apple, lemon, lovely slate minerality, lime zest, wild yeasts and a topnote of iris blossoms. On the palate the wine is bright, medium-bodied and filigreed, with lovely intensity of flavor, vibrant acids, excellent focus and grip and a long, light on its feet and lifted finish. This is still a very young Kabinett and I would not venture to open another bottle until the wine is at least ten years of age. It is not that it is not very tasty already, but it is such a baby right now that it deserves the bottle age to grow and blossom. Drink between 2028-2065.
In a striking and delightful contrast to its superb Badstube counterpart, this Himmelreich Kabinett offers a cooling and overtly citric personality. Lemon and grapefruit are suffused with green herbal essences, accompanied by yeast and wet stone on the nose and an adjunct of juicy ripe honeydew on the polished, delicate, sorbet-like palate. Piquancy of citrus zest and seeds is restrained but invigoratingly efficacious, and the generously juicy finish is admirably transparent to underlying wet stone. Drink between 2019-2038.
The 2018er Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett offers an attractive nose of melon, apricot blossom, herbs, floral elements, and spices. The wine is nicely fruity and delicately juicy on the soft but delicately playful palate. It leaves a touch of grapefruit zest, apricot, and herbal elements in the long and creamy finish. The wine has the structure of a Spätlese but retains nicely playfulness in the finish. The sweetness is already nicely integrated. 2023-2033.
