Egon Müller's bottling numbers
10 Jan 2006 by JR
Pietro Dilthey, Düsseldorf: I am very pleased to read tasting notes on German wine. I like them and it seems to me that we share the same taste. However, sometimes it is unclear to me, what kind of wine you have tasted. Some producers like Egon Müller or Dr Manfred Prüm of J J Prüm fill two or more different wines under the same label such as Scharzhofberger Riesling Auslese . The difference can only be discerned from the AP numbers. The last two figures represent the year, when the bottle got its official proof number, the two figures before are the sequential number of that year. The diffences are used for...

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