Wine is a kind of bottled energy and there is no producer that packs more voltage into their bottles than Joh. Jos. Prüm. The Prüm family history in the Mosel dates back as early as 1156, though it was Johann Josef Prüm (1873 – 1944) who founded the estate in 1911. Under Johann Josef’s son, Sebastian, by the mid-1930s the distinctive style of the Prüm wines had been forged. From 1969, the imitable Dr Manfred Prüm would take the reputation Joh. Jos. Prüm to even greater heights, and today the estate is run by Manfred’s daughter Katharina Prüm who watches over 13.5 precious hectares of vines perched on the vertiginous slate-rich slopes of the Middle Mosel.
90 Points Robert Parker
The Prums’ 2009 Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Kabinett is refreshingly and lusciously dominated by lime and grapefruit, dark cherry and blackcurrant. A judicious sense of sweetness allows for the penetration of invigorating, mouth-watering salinity in its finish, and tart notes of citrus zest and berry skin add to the sense of invigoration. Slight hints of fermentative afterbirth are inoffensive.