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2006 JJ Prum: Manfred's Best Collection Ever!

Finally we are able to offer the 2006 JJ Prum wines, and I am extremely excited. The one wine I was able to taste was out of this world. It was the 2006 Graacher Himmelreich Auslese, and it easily was the best young Graacher Auslese I have had. Incredibly dense and stuffed with fruit but with an ethereal quality that has to be tasted to be believed. How can something so big and rich be so elegant? 2006 was undeniably an Auslese-and-up vintage, and at Prum they do not de-classify that much wine to meet demand for things like QBA, Kabinett or Spatlese so the quantity of Spatlese at Prum this year is incredibly low. I mean really low - and the prices will reflect how small the production of these wines will be. In some cases prices for Spat and Kab will be comparable to the Auslesen, or even slightly above the Auslesen - pure supply and demand pricing. When I visited Prum in August they had just decided to make small amounts of Spatlese to satisfy their long-standing customers, but in general there was much more Auslese because this is an amazing Auslese + vintage in the Middle Mosel.

We are also offering will be the first ever young release of Prum Bernkasteler Badstube BA. Usually noble sweet wines from Prum are offered long after the vintage and only at the auction in Trier, but due to the unique conditions in 2006 half of the grapes at Prum were harvested at BA/TBA ripeness. This is an incredible opportunity for Prum collectors. These wines are extremely limited so we will do our best to meet your needs but sometimes allocations will be cut. So it goes . . .

By the way: Manfred Prum makes great wine every vintage, so we are also going to offer a few select back vintage Prums. He even excelled in 2003 - considered a great vintage by Germans, but a so-so vintage by almost everybody else.

For great producers like Prum to make great wine in 2006 they had to severely cut yields, and there is very little wine. No dilly-dallying for this vintage!

To encourage you to get into this vintage we are having a big blowout Riesling tasting this Saturday, October 6^th. There will be fifteen various wines open from the Rudi Wiest portfolio including some of the brilliant offerings from Schafer-Frohlich, Monchoff, Rebholz, Kunstler, Furst and Reinhold Haart.