Wonderfully intense and lifted aromatics of smoke, citrus peel, and small red fruits leads to a very tightly wound palate. In short, the palate starts baroque and finishes gothic. Highly complex and intense wine. In a word; remarkable. 7.5% alc/vol.       

A Prüm 2009 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese A.P. #12 offers an impressive combination of white raisin-studded apple jelly, mango, caramel, honey, and vanilla in a creamy textural context, with a remarkable, parallel, and somehow perfectly-integrated sense of fresh apple and pear juiciness that guarantees a finish of genuine refreshment, enhanced by near-weightless buoyancy. This is quite thrilling to savor even now, but deserves at least a dozen years’ cellaring and is likely to perform well three decades or more hence. 92 Points. David Schildknecht, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate # 193   

Pure, precise and fresh-tasting, with an intense clarity to the apple, pear and tangerine flavors that feature notes of slate and vanilla. The crystalline finish is long, pure and precise, with hints of smoke and anise. Best from 2014 through 2040. 96 Points. Wine Spectator, April 2011