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"The Grande Cuvée of Welschriesling and Chardonnay is Kracher's flagship wine in terms of balance, finesse and complexity. Other TBAs may be sweeter, fruitier and even more concentrated, but none is more harmonious, more complete."

Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate

 

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Weinlaubenhof Kracher

The Kracher Winery lies in the Seewinkel area of Austria´s Burgenland.  Here, through the evaporative periods of Lake Neusiedl, the evening fog and the warm Pannonian climate, continuous warm-humid weather patterns are dominant allowing Botrytis cinerea to form. This provides the basis for the fantastic sweet wines such as Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese.

Kracher create 10 to 15 different Trockenbeerenauslesen wines each year  in two different styles.  Zwischen den Seen (“in between the lakes”) are the wines which are matured in large wooden barrels or steel tanks, and undergo long yeast contact in order to deliver freshness, fruit und primary grape aromas into the bottle.  The Nouvelle Vague wines are aged in barrique ageing with air exchange during maturation. Vivid and lively in taste, depth, spiciness and length are these wines notable characteristics.

 

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2019Trockenbeerenauslese No. 5 Grande Cuvee NV, Kracher6x37.5cl2-£246CS(6)[Add to shopping basket]98 DS

"Blending 60% Welschriesling vinified in Slavonian oak vats of 1,000 and 1,500 liters and 40% Chardonnay aged in barriques, the 2019 Trockenbeerenauslese No. 5 Grande Cuvée Nouvelle Vague opens with a clear and concentrated, noble and finely toasty bouquet of ripe and stewed peaches and quinces with refreshing lemon juice and very fine toast aromas. On the palate, this is a rich and generous but highly refined and elegant TBA with a long, intense and saline finish that reveals very fine cumquat bitters. This is a beautifully balanced and extremely long TBA with very fine tannins and cedarwood notes. A beauty with great complexity and immense aging potential. 10% stated alcohol. Natural cork."

98 | Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate