Wine with Leslie: Three rieslings to try, including one you need to taste at least once in your life

Prüm wines held their first Dublin masterclass recently

Prüm wines all have sweetness but also balancing knife-edge acidity making them excellent food wines. Picture: iStock

Memory is a curious thing, a brief moment can live with us forever. The first sight and smell of a newborn, where we were when we heard a loved one or famous person died, and occasionally our first taste of something remarkable.

On a warm autumn evening in 1996 in the rooftop garden of my cousin’s apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan I was offered a glass of Joh Jos Prüm Riesling. I had heard of the producer (all wine nerds have), but had never tasted their wines. I can still taste it to this day, the sweet apple, lemon and tropical fruit flavours on the palate and the clean wet slate acidity that balanced the sweetness allowing both sweet and sharp flavours to linger and linger. I fell in love.