Coming Soon - 2024 Joh Jos Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese

The wines of Graacher Himmelreich often challenge those from Wehlener Sonnenuhr, especially in hot, dry years. They feature racy acidity, a pronounced minerality, and distinct fruit aromas and flavours. They often become accessible slightly earlier than the Wehlener Sonnenuhr wines and are delightfully mouthwatering. The hill faces slightly more westerly and has deeper soils than Wehlener Sonnenuhr, which act as excellent water reservoirs. With a gradient of 45 to 65 percent, the soils, if they can even be called soils, consist of deeply weathered Devonian slate interspersed with parcels of blue slate.

Other Reviews...
The 2024 Graacher Himmelreich Auslese is pure and flinty on the intense and stony nose that reveals herbal and saline notes along with blackcurrant and dark plum skin aromas. Lush and precise on the palate, this is a concentrated yet refined and elegant, mouth-filling and textured Auslese based on ripe and partly overripe grapes. AP 7.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in March 2026. Drink 2026-2060.
94 points
Stephan Reinhardt - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2024 Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Auslese contains almost no botrytized fruit. Only the slightest note of zesty lemon breaks through on the shy nose. More air reveals a hint of mint sorbet. The palate, however, adds an intriguing sweetness that is so akin to the wonderfully zesty notions of green tangerine peel. The next wave of flavor pushes into greengage and juicy white peach notes, always tempered by vivid citrus. The 2024 has gorgeous linearity and such a tingling, sherbet-like insistence. It is simply wonderful and so utterly balanced. Drink 2030-2065.
97 points
Anne Krebiehl MW - Vinous

In spite of the generous ripeness, the dominant aromas and flavors are Amalfi lemons, yellow grapefruit and pomelo with some fresh herbal notes. Very bright and racy, the finish much drier than you might expect for this frankly sweet category. Long, energetic, herbal finish with fascinating grapefruit bitterness and salty minerality. Drinkable now, but best from 2027.
95 points
JamesSuckling.com