Library Release 2025

2000 Trockenbeerenauslese No.1 Traminer In der Nase fruchtiger Honig, braucht etwas Luft um die sortentypischen Aromen loszulassen, Süßholz, Orangenblüten, Rosen, am Gaumen elegant, feiner Eibischteig, kraftvoll, sehr geschliffenes Finale. Almost 25 years after the harvest, Alois Kracher's 2025 Library Release is the 2000 Trockenbeerenauslese No 1 Traminer Nouvelle Vague, which displays a burnt-orange color with a brightening, yellowish edge. The nose is deep, very intense and complex as well as elegant and layered with malt, salt, mocha, tobacco and pencil tip aromas intermingling with ripe, yellow plum fruit and notes of dried-red orange skin as well as honey and very fine caramel aromas. On the palate, this is a rich and very elegant, highly finessed and pristine, textured and perfectly balanced Trockenbeerenauslese with very fine tannins and a dark caramel sweetness. All the richness is balanced by super delicate acidity and salinity, which makes TBAs from Lake Neusiedl some of the world's finest noble sweet wines. I'd go with a cigar with this or dark chocolate spiced with oranges. 14% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in Illmitz in June 2025. By Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate

2000 Trockenbeerenauslese No.3 Chardonnay Alois Kracher's re-released 2000 Trockenbeerenauslese No 3 Chardonnay Nouvelle Vague displays a saddle-brown color with a brightening, yellowish and lime-green edge. The bouquet is deep, very intense yet refined and displays saline notes and even slightly flinty nuances intertwined with nougat, dark caramel, licorice and plummy and stone fruit aromas. The wine is enormously rich on the palate yet immaculate in its perfect "100-pointer texture." This is a spell-binding beauty full of finesse and lively salinity that triggers an immediate swallowing reflex. "Oh, linger, you are so beautiful," I hear myself quoting Goethe's Faust II, but again and again this wine defies analysis and seduces shamelessly but perfectly. The long and saline, salivating finish reveals dark chocolate and refreshing lemon flavors and keeps the wine its it weightless, elegant and refined style. 12.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in Illmitz in June 2025. by Stephan Reinhardt 100/100 The Wine Advocate In der Nase deutliche Botrytisprägung, Vanille vom neuen Holz dominiert, leicht, exotische Frucht, Litischi, am Gaumen sanft, fast buttrig, hat leichte laktisch-karamellige Züge im Finish, unkompliziertes Trinkvergnügen.

2005 Trockenbeerenauslese No. 1 Welschriesling Re-released as a 2025 Library Release, Alois Kracher's 2005 Trockenbeerenauslese No 1 Welschriesling Zwischen den Seen displays a lively amber color with lime-green reflections. The nose is savory, precise and fresh, reminiscent of stewed apricots and orange tea as well as lemon rind and pencil tip aromas. Very elegant and seamless in its texture, this is a rich and pretty sweet yet highly finessed and weightless Welschriesling Trockenbeerenauslese with a finely saline and savory finish. I would even keep this pristine 2005 for at least another five years so that the sweetness becomes less obvious, but this is my very personal taste. The wine is doubtlessly superb thanks to its fine texture and immaculate nature. 12% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in Illmitz in June 2025. By Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate Gorgeously pure apricot – this has a postgraduate degree in apricot studies, with the thesis specialising on the delicate texture of skin and the touch of the tannins in the skin! In short, this is pixilated apricot perfection. If you don’t like apricots … Burnt sugar. There’s a little wild strawberry too. Fascinating. We have, with 20 years of age, also hay bails and coffee beans (oddly) and the rather more expected crème brulée and butterscotch notes. But it’s incredibly pure and very beautiful in that purity. I love the combination of viscosity and freshness – viscosity is so dangerous without it. So intensely saline – the Kracher signature. A timeless wine that it is a pleasure to taste now – and that will still be a pleasure to taste (for someone) long after I have left this mortal coil! 95/100 Colin Hay, The Drinks Business

2005 Trockenbeerenauslese No.3 Traminer The 2005 #3 Traminer Trockenbeerenauslese Nouvelle Vague is strongly oriented along the animal – more precisely, marine-porcine – axis of this notorious family of grapes. Ham hock, candied rose petal and violets, celery seed, and ocean breeze rise from the glass. This coats the mouth with an oily residue of pork fat, along with rose oil, lychee, pineapple, and white pepper. There is a cut and brightness to the finish that belie the grape variety, the new wood, and this wine’s mere 7 grams of acidity. Cinnamon, white pepper, and bacon hog the finish from the fruits and flowers. This should be worth following for at least 15-20 years. There’s greater richness, density and also more of a sensation of the residual-sugar influenced notes; this is more buttery too – but with that lovely bite and bitterness of burnt sugar – like apples scorched in burning butter. Crème brulée. Butterscotch. Werther’s Originals. Candyfloss. Freshly made strawberry jam. Caramele au beurre salé. Scorched pineapple. A hint of fresh ginger. Baked Bramley apple. Toffee apple. Cinnamon. Mace. A little cardamon. Fresh on the attack, quite lean, linear and slender in the mid-palate and very fine and focussed on the finish – though undoubtedly shorter than No. 1. Apricot and salt on the finish. Lovely, if a little more ephemeral. 93+/100 Colin Hay, The Drinks Business

2005 Trockenbeerenauslese No.5 Chardonnay Mittleres Gelbgold. In der Nase feine Gewürzanklänge nach Zimt, Vanilleschoten, gelbe Apfelfrucht, dezenter Kokostouch. Am Gaumen elegant und ausgewogen, nach weißer Schokolade, feine, samtige Textur, das Holz ist perfekt eingebunden. Pikantes Säurespiel, sehr gutes Reifepotenzial. The 2005 Trockenbeerenauslese No 5 Chardonnay Nouvelle Vague is part of the 2025 Library Release and features a mahogany dress with orange and yellow reflections. The bouquet is comparably discreet in flavors but indicates enormous intensity and concentration and intertwines lemon nuances with sweet fruit aromas such as stewed dates, yellow plums, apricots, black tea, caramel, white chocolate/nougat and honey. On the palate, this is another rich yet immaculately textured and uplifted TBA that is based on perfectly selected botrytis berries and carried over the palate by a crystalline and mouth-tickling acidity and salinity. This is another beauty, and its finesse and freshness are balanced by a richness and intensity that is structured by fine tannins and the aging in 100% new barriques. 12% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in Illmitz in June 2025. By Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate 100% tarte tatin – and a brilliant one, fresh out of the oven that reminds you just how wonderful a thing a tarte tatin is! Burnt caramel. Black tea leaf – interestingly, maybe a little smokey – Russian caravan tea! Peony blooms and saffron. This really goes through phases aromatically, as one tunes in on different elements of the complexity. Really special. Rich and ample, but quite voluminous in the mouth, giving space for the fruits to dance. Lithe, limpid and vibrant, this is more sapid and juicy perhaps than the aromatics prepare you for. Long and characteristically saline. Almost painfully fresh despite the tonne of sugar – wow! Another brilliant TBA from Kracher! 96+/100 Colin Hay, The Drinks Business

2005 Trockenbeerenauslese No.9 Scheurebe The deep amber-colored 2005 Trockenbeerenauslese No 9 Scheurebe Zwischen den Seen is part of the 2025 Library Release. It opens with an intense and elegant bouquet of mint and eucalyptus and balsamic as well as concentrated fruit aromas that intermingle with nougat and caramel but also saline notes. This is a very rich but pristine Trockenbeerenauslese that might not be the most complex sweet wine of the 2025 Library Release, but it is highly finessed, stimulating saline, fresh and the perfect expression of Scheurebe (a.k.a. Sämling 88 in Austria). This is a spellbinding fresh, lemony and delicate Trockenbeerenauslesein the classic Austrian style (no barriques but large oak casks or stainless steel). 7.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in Illmitz in June 2025. by Stephan Reinhardt - 100/100 The Wine Advocate Incredibly mentholated aromatically, like spearmint wrapped in sugar candy! But there’s thyme and marjoram too, amazingly. A little black truffle. Black tea leaf too. A little black treacle. Champignons de Paris. Never before have these aromatic ingredients shared the same glass. There are more conventional notes too – fresh and dried apricot, peach and candyfloss, melon. Just incredible on the palate. For, despite the 308 grammes per litre of residual sugar it’s the acidity that you notice more than anything. It’s like a school teacher taking in charge the class demanding that the sugar remains in check (‘they’ll be no residual sugar in this class!’). Wonderful. The sense of tension is in-cred-ib-le! A wine like no other from a property that has produced so many wines like no other! I’m in awe. 99/100 Colin Hay, The Drinks Business

2010 Trockenbeerenauslese No.1 Rosenmuskateller In der Nase entfalten sich Aromen von roten Beeren, umspielt von einem Hauch Eukalyptus, der dieser Rebsorte nach etwa 10 bis 15 Jahren Reife eine faszinierende Eleganz verleiht. Zarte Rosenblüten runden das Duftbild harmonisch ab.Am Gaumen zeigt sich feines Rosenwasser, begleitet von einer dezenten Würze von Gewürznelken und erneut einem Hauch Eukalyptus. Dazu gesellen sich fruchtige Noten von Erdbeere und Blaubeere. Der Abgang wird von feinen Tabaknoten und sanften Tanninen geprägt, die von einer salzigen Würze getragen werden und das Geschmackserlebnis ausklingen lassen. (Gerhard Kracher | Februar 2025)

2010 Trockenbeerenauslese No.10 Scheurebe Mittleres Gelbgold. Frische Mandarinenzesten und florale Nuancen. Wirkt fast rotbeerig, feiner Honigtouch, hochattraktives Bukett. Stoffig und sehr konzentriert, mit einem intensiven Säurespiel. Weiße Fruchtexotik, sehr mineralisch mit einem salzigen Nachhall - trotz dem hohen Restzucker sehr trinkanimierend.

2010 Trockenbeerenauslese No.11 Welschriesling Kräftiges Goldgelb. Intensive Kräuterwürze, rauchig mit einem ein Hauch von Nougat, zart nach Feigen, Marillen und etwas Bienenhonig. Am Gaumen sehr saftig, zeigt Noten von Orangen - wirkt intensiv und elegant, sehr komplex und hoch konzentriert. Trotz der extremen analytischen Werte wirkt der Wein dennoch sehr harmonisch, mit einem tollen Potenzial ausgestattet.

2010 Trockenbeerenauslese No. 2 Muskat Ottonel Mittleres Gelbgold. Feine Nuancen von kandierten Orangenzesten, florale Noten und Muskatnuss. Sehr saftig, zeigt eine angenehme Würze, weiße Tropenfrucht mit einem frischen Säurebogen, feiner Honigtouch und weißer Pfeffer im Abgang, mineralisches Finish.

2010 Trockenbeerauslese No.3 Scheurebe Mittleres Gelbgold. In der Nase eher verhalten mit zarter Kräuterwürze, traubige Frucht, Mandarinenzesten, zart rauchige Nuancen. Am Gaumen gelbe Tropenfrucht, zitronige Noten, rassig und gut anhaltend. Steinobst und Grapefruit im Nachhall mit schöner Würze, sehr leichtfüssig und trinkanimierend.

2010 Trockenbeerenauslese No. 5 Zweigelt Helles Kirschrot mit orangenen Reflexen. Feine süße Zwetschkenfrucht, ein Hauch dunkle Ringlotten, feine Kräuterwürze in der Nase. Am Gaumen rotes Waldbeerkonfit, saftig und elegant. Noten von eingelegten Kirschen, zart nach Orangen, frisch und ausgewogen mit einem saftigen Abgang.

2010 Trockenbeerenauslese No.7 Welschriesling Mittleres Gelbgold. In der Nase frische Wiesenkräuter, gelbe Frucht und feiner Honigtouch. Wirkt sehr kraftvoll - saftige, vollreife gelbe Tropenfrucht, finessenreicher Säurebogen. Bleibt lange haften, delikater Nachhall, großes Entwicklungspotenzial.