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Może dopytam o kolor kapsla? O kapslach tak pisze winny doktor: The Joh. Jos. Prüm portfolio includes a number of truly illustrious vineyards, but it is undoubtedly the vines in the Sonnenuhr (sundial) vineyard on the opposite bank to the town of Wehlen that produce the most iconic wines, and are most readily associated with the estate. The stones underfoot here are typically a blue-grey slate, like many of the vineyards along the Mosel it is precipitously steep, and it is also particularly rugged, with the vines running around crags of bare rock in places. From this vineyard come wines that near perfection if there is such a thing, across all levels of the Prädikat, although it is the Auslesen that stupefy most, especially when looking beyond the standard (but still fabulous) bottling to the Gold and Long Gold Kapsel (often abbreviated to GK and LGK) bottlings, superior selections which serve not to increase the texture and weight, but provide instead greater purity, focus and precision. Typified by gold capsules with a single white stripe for the former (as below), a double white stripe for the latter, these wines were once labelled as Feinste Auslese or Hochfeine Auslese prior to the new wine laws of 1971, when such terminology was outlawed. It is these wines, more than any others, on which this estate has built its grand reputation. There are other vineyards of course, including Graacher Himmelreich, an excellent site in its own right but here, without doubt, playing second fiddle to Wehlener Sonnenuhr. Jak widać oprócz zwykłego (białego jak pisze MM) kapsla, może być złoty, a nawet długi, choć nie kręty, ani cętkowany, tylko nadal złoty kapsel. Czystsze miały być, a jak widać po 1998 różnie to wychodzi. Paski białe są jeden, bądź dwa w przypadku złotego kapsla, od długości zależy.
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