94 points Stuart Pigott (JamesSuckling.com): "Generous pear fruit and substance for a Kabinett, but they're married to bright, citrusy acidity that makes this uplifting and appealing. Just beginning to show its considerable finesse. Drink or hold. (9/17/20)"
93+ points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "With almost nine hectares of vines in the beautiful Himmelreich vineyard, Weingut Prüm is one of the most important vineyard owners in this truly special terroir. Their 2018 Himmelreich Kabinett AP #3 is a beautifully refined wine on both the nose and palate, with the bouquet offering up a youthfully complex blend of apple, lemon, lovely slate minerality, lime zest, wild yeasts and a topnote of iris blossoms. On the palate the wine is bright, medium-bodied and filigreed, with lovely intensity of flavor, vibrant acids, excellent focus and grip and a long, light on its feet and lifted finish. This is still a very young Kabinett and I would not venture to open another bottle until the wine is at least ten years of age. It is not that it is not very tasty already, but it is such a baby right now that it deserves the bottle age to grow and blossom. 2028-2065+. (Jul/Aug 2020)"
93 points Stephan Reinhardt (Wine Advocate): "The 2018 Graacher Himmelreich Kabinett is bright, precise and floral on the slightly flinty, very elegant and finessed nose with crunchy slate aromas. Piquant and fresh on the filigreed and crystalline palate, this is a lush and tropical-flavored, buoyant and frisky Himmelreich with juicy apricot and white peach aromas and the fine grip pf broken slate. The finish is straight, piquant, well structured, stimulatingly fresh and salty. This is a gorgeous 2018 that tastes almost dry in the end. Tasted at the domain in September 2020. Drink: 2022-2050. (Oct 2020)"
93 points Wine Enthusiast: "Succulent flavors of pineapple, lemon and mango dance and dart on the palate of this spry little Kabinett. It's an intensely fruity, juicy sip but anchored by a reverberating backbone of acidity and lingering notes of earth, smoke, spice and animal. Delightful already, but there's so much potential for cellaring, too. Alcohol 9%. (Aug 2020)"
92 points David Schildknecht (Vinous): "In a striking and delightful contrast to its superb Badstube counterpart, this Himmelreich Kabinett offers a cooling and overtly citric personality. Lemon and grapefruit are suffused with green herbal essences, accompanied by yeast and wet stone on the nose and an adjunct of juicy ripe honeydew on the polished, delicate, sorbet-like palate. Piquancy of citrus zest and seeds is restrained but invigoratingly efficacious, and the generously juicy finish is admirably transparent to underlying wet stone. Drink: 2019-2038. (Aug 2020)"
93+ points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "With almost nine hectares of vines in the beautiful Himmelreich vineyard, Weingut Prüm is one of the most important vineyard owners in this truly special terroir. Their 2018 Himmelreich Kabinett AP #3 is a beautifully refined wine on both the nose and palate, with the bouquet offering up a youthfully complex blend of apple, lemon, lovely slate minerality, lime zest, wild yeasts and a topnote of iris blossoms. On the palate the wine is bright, medium-bodied and filigreed, with lovely intensity of flavor, vibrant acids, excellent focus and grip and a long, light on its feet and lifted finish. This is still a very young Kabinett and I would not venture to open another bottle until the wine is at least ten years of age. It is not that it is not very tasty already, but it is such a baby right now that it deserves the bottle age to grow and blossom. 2028-2065+. (Jul/Aug 2020)"
93 points Stephan Reinhardt (Wine Advocate): "The 2018 Graacher Himmelreich Kabinett is bright, precise and floral on the slightly flinty, very elegant and finessed nose with crunchy slate aromas. Piquant and fresh on the filigreed and crystalline palate, this is a lush and tropical-flavored, buoyant and frisky Himmelreich with juicy apricot and white peach aromas and the fine grip pf broken slate. The finish is straight, piquant, well structured, stimulatingly fresh and salty. This is a gorgeous 2018 that tastes almost dry in the end. Tasted at the domain in September 2020. Drink: 2022-2050. (Oct 2020)"
93 points Wine Enthusiast: "Succulent flavors of pineapple, lemon and mango dance and dart on the palate of this spry little Kabinett. It's an intensely fruity, juicy sip but anchored by a reverberating backbone of acidity and lingering notes of earth, smoke, spice and animal. Delightful already, but there's so much potential for cellaring, too. Alcohol 9%. (Aug 2020)"
92 points David Schildknecht (Vinous): "In a striking and delightful contrast to its superb Badstube counterpart, this Himmelreich Kabinett offers a cooling and overtly citric personality. Lemon and grapefruit are suffused with green herbal essences, accompanied by yeast and wet stone on the nose and an adjunct of juicy ripe honeydew on the polished, delicate, sorbet-like palate. Piquancy of citrus zest and seeds is restrained but invigoratingly efficacious, and the generously juicy finish is admirably transparent to underlying wet stone. Drink: 2019-2038. (Aug 2020)"
| Product SKU | 336124 |
| Producer | Prüm/JJ |
| Country | Germany |
| Region | Mosel |
| Varietal | Riesling |
| Designation | Kabinett |
| Vintage | 2018 |
| Size | 750ml |
| Color | White |
| ABV | 9.0% |
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