Prum AP# Question

I recently picked up a few 2005 JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese GKAs. I noticed that the AP# is 2 576 511 06 07. Is it unusual for an '05 wine not to be submitted until 2007 (rather than '06)? Any thoughts on why this would be the case?

Jim, I also have these in halves, the AP No is 2 576 511 28 06. Strange?

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Andrew

Yes it is unusual (for German wines in general). I believe the date on the AP number relates to the date of bottling as that is when samples need to be submitted for testing. So it will have been bottled later than usual - after the next harvest indeed - why that might have been I do not know.

[David M. Bueker]

Prum does not bottle everything at once. Later year AP numbers are not uncommon for them.

as David said, the Prüm Estate does this quite regularly.

In 2005, they had two fuder of Wehlener Sonnenuhr GK and they only brought the second tank on the market last year. I had both, no real difference except that this bottling is still a touch more open than the original (06) one.

For your information, they just released a few weeks ago their second fuder of graacher himmelreich auslese gk 2003 (with an 08 ap number) and also released later bottlings of wehlener sonnenuhr and graacher himmelreich auslese 2006.

In 2000, they released their last cask of wehlener sonnenuhr auslese GK ... 1983.

I could go on and on...

Nothing anormal - later bottlings are usually a touch more closed but having benefitted from more tank aging, they have (in the past) kept their freshness longer. I must stress that Katharina Prüm is adament that there is no real differences anymore between the bottlings on the longer run.

Brilliant responses. Thanks for the info!