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Wine Description
The Story
The Wehlener Sonnenuhr vineyard has become intrinsically attached to the name of Joh. Jos. Prüm. The Estate owns five hectares of this majestic site. It offers perfect growing conditions for the Riesling grape with its deep, weather-beaten grey slate soil, good water support, extreme steepness of up to 70 % gradient, and its optimal south-south-west exposure. As for the Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, Wehlener Sonnenuhr is named after the sundial erected...
Vintage 1983
The 1983 German wine vintage was an extraordinary, sun-drenched, and bountiful harvest across the Mosel, Rheingau, Rheinhessen, and Nahe that produced some of the most celebrated, structurally balanced, and long-lived Rieslings of the late 20th century. Following a cold winter, a warm and early spring enabled an exceptionally clean flowering period, setting the stage for a dry, hot summer that allowed the vines to recover effortlessly from the...
