The Brauneberger Juffer Sonnenuhr is produced from a vineyard facing the small town of Brauneberg formerly Dusemond. It's a steep slate slope on the Mosel, with a south-southeast exposure and enjoying a very special microclimate, which produces mineral and remarkably fine fruity wines.
This beautiful Riesling impresses with exotic fruits such as papaya, peach and mango. Full-bodied with typical Devonian slate qualities. Luscious fruit, nice minerality, length and acidity. The spicy and mineral notes give the wine the depth it needs.
Cheese, dessert, aperitif.
"Profoundly ripe flavors of yellow cherry and peach have a smouldering, smoky undertone in this concentrated medium-sweet Riesling. It's a gorgeously ripe, fruity sip struck by sunny lemon and tangerine acidity. Best enjoyed young to maximize its piercing fruit profile but it's structured enough to drink well through 2030. - ANNA LEE C. IIJIMA"
- Wine Enthusiast (July 2021), 93 pts
"Hints of petrol, honeycomb, quince, and mint all emerge from the 2015 Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese, a beautifully deep, medium to full-bodied, flawlessly balanced Spätlese that does everything right. Showing more and more minerality, with an almost liquid rock-like character, it has a terrific mid-palate as well as a great, great finish. There are only 110 cases of this produced, but it’s a brilliant wine."
- Jeb Dunnuck (March 27th 2019), 95 pts
Go to St. Nikolaus Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese
"Founded in the 1400s as a monastery-run hospital, St. Nikolaus-Hospital continues its social mission today as a retirement home, supported by a winery with 44 acres of vineyards. This wine, from the steepest section of the Brauneberger Juffer vineyard, is opulent and structured, the flavor balanced between the fleshiness of ripe peaches and the pleasant, nutty bitterness of their skins. The mineral notes imbue it with a savory hint of smoke, a sultry wine to match with glazed pork ribs."
- Wine & Spirits (February 2018), 92 pts - Year’s Best German Rieslings, Best Buy
Go to St. Nikolaus Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese
St Nikolaus-Hospital - the Cusanusstift - is the oldest estate in the Middle Mosel region, founded in 1458 by philosopher Nikolaus von Kues, the best-known ancestor of the town of ...
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