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The January 2012 Internet-Only Auction Part 2
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Lot 2578
Estimate: $190
Bin soiled labels, one sign of past slight seepage.
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93JG
"The 1990 auction bottling of Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese from Dr. Manfred Prüm is a beautiful wine that is just entering its plateau of peak maturity. The deep, complex and really lovely nose wafts from the glass in a blend of pear, honeycomb, gentle notes of laurel, a nascent touch of sea salts, a dollop of petrol and a woodsy touch of heather. On the palate the wine is medium-full, long, complex and perfectly balanced, with excellent focus and grip. The structure here is a tad on the gentle side, which probably indicates that this wine will be best over the next decade or so, but with a wine this cunningly balanced, it may cruise along far past that point, despite its relatively gentle girdle of acidity. A beautifully filigreed Auslese."
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"The 1990 auction bottling of Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese from Dr. Manfred Prüm is a beautiful wine that is just entering its plateau of peak maturity. The deep, complex and really lovely nose wafts from the glass in a blend of pear, honeycomb, gentle notes of laurel, a nascent touch of sea salts, a dollop of petrol and a woodsy touch of heather. On the palate the wine is medium-full, long, complex and perfectly balanced, with excellent focus and grip. The structure here is a tad on the gentle side, which probably indicates that this wine will be best over the next decade or so, but with a wine this cunningly balanced, it may cruise along far past that point, despite its relatively gentle girdle of acidity. A beautifully filigreed Auslese."
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The spiritual home of Riesling, producing wines of piercing acidity, precision and longevity across a spectrum from bone-dry to lusciously sweet. Cool, steep-sloped vineyards along the Mosel and Rhine yield some of the world's most delicate, long-lived whites.
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The appellation for Germany's most celebrated Riesling, its steep slate slopes yielding light, low-alcohol wines of electric acidity and extraordinary longevity.
A highly aromatic white of piercing acidity and transparency to terroir, ranging from bone-dry to lusciously sweet. It ages remarkably and is the noble grape of Germany and Alsace.
