{"title":"Mosel Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoh. Jos. Prüm, Willi Schaefer, and Markus Molitor, from our private collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"markus-molitor-zeltinger-himmelreich-riesling-kabinett-2016","title":"Markus Molitor Zeltinger Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett 2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarkus Molitor took over his family's estate in 1984 at age twenty, the eighth generation of his family to make wine on the Mosel, and has since built it into one of the river's largest family-owned wineries, some 120 hectares farmed from Haus Klosterberg near Zeltingen. His parcels in Zeltinger Himmelreich occupy steep sections of finely splintered blue Devonian slate, and the winemaking is exacting: soft crushing, several hours on the skins, fermentation with natural yeasts in stainless steel, then a rest on the lees. Kabinett, the lightest of the Prädikats, shows the house's precision, with grapefruit and yellow peach over white flowers, herbs, and fine spice, a silky yet zesty palate, and the vivid acidity this deep grey slate reliably gives. The 2016 arrives with nearly a decade of bottle age already banked.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HJ2","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52062713774378,"sku":null,"price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/0645\/5338\/files\/molitor-zeltinger-kabinett-2016.jpg?v=1784237236"},{"product_id":"joh-jos-prum-graacher-himmelreich-riesling-auslese-2021","title":"Joh. Jos. Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoh. Jos. Prüm has defined Mosel Riesling from Wehlen since 1911, and under Dr. Katharina Prüm the house style is unchanged: fermentation with indigenous yeasts, low alcohol, and wines that unfold over decades rather than years. Graacher Himmelreich, whose steep Devonian slate slope carries deeper, water-retaining soils threaded with pockets of blue slate, gives the racier, more citrus-toned counterpart to the estate's Wehlener Sonnenuhr. Auslese, made from selectively picked, fully ripe bunches, is the richest of the estate's core Prädikat bottlings, yet the cool, late-harvested 2021 vintage keeps it improbably light on its feet at around 7 percent alcohol. Lime and crushed slate open into tangerine, honeyed peach, and a flash of candied pineapple, the sweetness pulled taut by crystalline acidity through a long saline finish. Patience will be repaid many times over.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HJ2","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52062718492970,"sku":null,"price":89.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/0645\/5338\/files\/prum-graacher-auslese-2021.jpg?v=1784237233"},{"product_id":"joh-jos-prum-wehlener-sonnenuhr-riesling-kabinett-2021","title":"Joh. Jos. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe sundial that names Wehlener Sonnenuhr was painted onto the vineyard's slate face in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm, an ancestor of the family that still farms the site's heart. Joh. Jos. Prüm's largely ungrafted old vines grow nearly straight out of stony, weathered Devonian slate on this near-vertical slope across the river from the winery, and they yield the estate's most elegant wines. Kabinett is the lightest Prädikat, its gentle sweetness balanced by bright acidity, and the cool 2021 harvest delivered a textbook example at just 7.5 percent alcohol: vineyard peach, cassis, and lime zest over crushed slate, an airy, light-footed palate, and a finish of striking purity. Give it time; Prüm's wines are famously unhurried. Few bottles say Mosel more precisely.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HJ2","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52062718558506,"sku":null,"price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/0645\/5338\/files\/prum-ws-kabinett-2021.jpg?v=1784236713"},{"product_id":"joh-jos-prum-graacher-himmelreich-riesling-spatlese-2021","title":"Joh. Jos. Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spatlese 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eGraacher Himmelreich, the kingdom of heaven, rises directly across the Mosel from Joh. Jos. Prüm's cellars in Wehlen, its steep weathered Devonian slate broken by pockets of blue slate over deeper, water-holding soils. The site is the racier counterpart to the estate's Wehlener Sonnenuhr: more citrus, more cut, a touch quicker to open. Spätlese, from later-picked and riper fruit, adds flesh to that frame, and in the cool 2021 vintage the balance is exceptional, Dr. Katharina Prüm's Spätlesen showing more fruit than her Kabinetts while keeping the year's electric acidity. Lime zest and lemon pith lead into white flowers, peach, and a thread of blackcurrant, closing stony and precise with springlike freshness. Built, like everything from this house, for the long haul.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HJ2","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52062718624042,"sku":null,"price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/0645\/5338\/files\/prum-graacher-spatlese-2021.jpg?v=1784237234"},{"product_id":"joh-jos-prum-wehlener-sonnenuhr-riesling-spatlese-2021","title":"Joh. Jos. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo bottling is more closely tied to Joh. Jos. Prüm than Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spätlese, the wine on which this Wehlen estate built its name after its founding in 1911. The vineyard, named for the sundial a Prüm ancestor painted onto its slate face in 1842, is a wall of stony, weathered Devonian slate where old, largely ungrafted vines produce the Mosel's most patiently evolving Riesling. The cool 2021 harvest, which began in the second week of October, gave Spätlesen of rare delicacy: candied orange, lime, and nectarine over a flinty core, a crystalline, mouthwatering palate, and savory lemon freshness on the finish, gentle sweetness and racing acidity woven together throughout. Drink it in twenty years, or forty. This is the marathon runner of the Mosel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HJ2","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52062724718890,"sku":null,"price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/0645\/5338\/files\/prum-ws-spatlese-2021.jpg?v=1784236714"},{"product_id":"joh-jos-prum-wehlener-sonnenuhr-riesling-spatlese-2022-1-5l","title":"Joh. Jos. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese 2022 1.5L","description":"\u003cp\u003eMagnums of Joh. Jos. Prüm are about as sure a cellar bet as Riesling offers: the estate's wines evolve famously slowly even in standard bottles, and the 1.5 liter format stretches that arc further still. This Spätlese comes from old, largely ungrafted vines in Wehlener Sonnenuhr, the stony Devonian slate slope named for the sundial painted there in 1842 by a Prüm ancestor. The warm, dry 2022 season gave a wine of unusual generosity for the house: white peach, sliced pear, rose, and honeysuckle on the nose, a dense, juicy palate, and a long saline finish that reads drier than the Prädikat suggests. Spätlese here means later-picked fruit whose sweetness is woven into acidity rather than sitting on top of it. One magnum, two decades of drinking windows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HJ2","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52062724751658,"sku":null,"price":129.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/0645\/5338\/files\/prum-ws-spatlese-2022.jpg?v=1784238046"},{"product_id":"willi-schaefer-graacher-domprobst-riesling-spatlese-2005","title":"Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spatlese 2005","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilli Schaefer farms barely four hectares in Graach, all Riesling, roughly 2,900 cases a year, from a family whose records in these vineyards reach back to 1121. Graacher Domprobst, named for the Trier cathedral official who once drew a share of its fruit, is the estate's shadowy, mineral heart: weathered Devonian slate over clay and a deep water table, always the slowest Schaefer wine to unfold. 2005 was a ripe Mosel year of high must weights that held onto its acidity, and over twenty years in bottle have brought this Spätlese to full maturity: peach and citrus now shaded by wet stone and a classic whisper of petrol, sweetness and still-lively acidity in balance through a long, fresh finish. A library release from the era of Willi Schaefer himself, a decade before son Christoph took the helm. Mature Mosel of this pedigree rarely surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HJ2","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52062724915498,"sku":null,"price":64.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/0645\/5338\/files\/schaefer-graacher-domprobst-2005.jpg?v=1784237234"},{"product_id":"willi-schaefer-wehlener-sonnenuhr-riesling-spatlese-2005","title":"Willi Schaefer Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese 2005","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilli Schaefer's holding in Wehlener Sonnenuhr amounts to a single quarter-hectare parcel of stony Devonian slate, the smallest piece of a Graach estate that farms barely four hectares of Riesling in total. The site tends toward richness and white stone fruit beside the racier Graach crus, and 2005, a ripe Mosel vintage of high must weights that kept its freshness, suited it well. Made in the era of Willi Schaefer himself, a decade before son Christoph took over, this Spätlese now carries over twenty years of bottle age from an estate long noted for the longevity of its Rieslings. Mature Schaefer is scarce; mature Schaefer Sonnenuhr, scarcer still.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HJ2","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52062724948266,"sku":null,"price":64.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/0645\/5338\/files\/schaefer-ws-spatlese-2005.jpg?v=1784236754"},{"product_id":"joh-jos-prum-wehlener-sonnenuhr-riesling-kabinett-2022-1-5l","title":"Joh. Jos. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett 2022 1.5L","description":"\u003cp\u003eKabinett is the quietest voice in the Joh. Jos. Prüm range and, for many, the most haunting: 8 percent alcohol, delicate sweetness, and acidity that carries it for decades. This magnum comes from the estate's core holding in Wehlener Sonnenuhr, the sundial vineyard whose largely ungrafted old vines grow from stony weathered Devonian slate directly across the river from the winery in Wehlen. Even in the warm, dry 2022 season the wine keeps its lace: bracing white peach, lemon, and lime over cut stone, smoke and salt threading a lifted, off-dry palate through a long mineral finish. In the 1.5 liter format, the one collectors reach for when a wine is this long-lived, it will barely have stirred by its tenth birthday.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HJ2","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52066382610730,"sku":null,"price":129.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/0645\/5338\/files\/prum-ws-kabinett-2022.jpg?v=1784237536"}],"url":"https:\/\/purewinenyc.com\/collections\/mosel-collection.oembed","provider":"Pure Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}