Coming Soon - 2024 Joh Jos Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spatlese

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 Spätlese offers an intense, refined and elegant bouquet of tropical fruits, weathered wet slate and greenish herbs and grass. Very elegant and refined but also lush and savory on the palate, this is another sophisticated Spätlese that combines the juiciness and fruit intensity of the Badstube with the saline and crystalline finesse of the Graacher Himmelreich. This is an excellent effort. 7.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine from AP 07 25 in March 2026. Drink 2026-2060.
94 points
Stephan Reinhardt - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2024 Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Spätlese offers a salty wet slate aroma with a savor reminiscent of lichen and citrus peel. All about it is precise, stony, linear, crystalline and bright. You almost forget that this is a Spätlese, as its sweetness and acidity seem to be bound absolutely to the sunken salty slate that makes the mouth water endlessly. The 2024 has brilliance, poise, absolute structure and very fine bones. The finish is full of lemon zest. Drink 2028-2055.
95 points
Anne Krebiehl MW - Vinous

Juicy and well structured with quite a firm core, this makes a bold statement. There’s a hint of bitterness interwoven with the pronounced acidity to give this a firm core. Serious minerality, but also plenty of grapefruit peel and pith flavors in the long, slightly austere finish. Drinkable now, but best from 2027.
94 points
JamesSuckling.com