Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese 2018

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The Wehlener Sonnenuhr is the most famous and considered the best vineyard of the JJ Prum estate. It offers perfect growing conditions for the Riesling with its deep, weather-beaten grey slate soil, a good water support, and extreme steepness of up to 35 degrees and its optimal south-south-west-exposure. 

The Wehlener Sonnenuhr – and the same does apply for the Zeltinger Sonnenuhr – is named after the sundial („Sonnenuhr“ literally means sundial) erected in the vineyard in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm, an ancestor of J.J. Prüm, to give the workers a better time orientation. 

The wines of the Wehlener Sonnenuhr possess an excellent structure, typically showing ripe aromas and flavours (typically stone fruits, like peach), a fine minerality and great depth and length. Especially after having been aged for some years, their harmony, finesse and expression is unique.