Der Besuch von Stephan Reinhardt (Wine Advocate / Robert Parker) brachte es auf den Punkt: Dreimal 100 Punkte für unseren aktuellen Library Release. Ein beeindruckender Hattrick – und ein weiterer Beweis dafür, dass Kracher den Maßstab für Süßwein immer wieder neu definiert Ausgezeichnet wurden: 2000 TBA 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. (100/100 Stephan Reinhardt | The Wine Advocate) 2005 TBA No. 7 Grande Cuvée Alois and Gerhard Kracher‘s 2005 Trockenbeerenauslese No 7 Grande Cuvée Nouvelle Vague is part of the 2025 Library Release and another stellar wine in the history of this domaine in Illmitz. Given the fact that this dark orange-colored noble sweet wine was aged in barriques, it displays a lovely deep yet pure, fresh and aromatic bouquet of stewed stone fruits and citrus fruit intermingled with nuances of nougat, toast, salt and caramel, maybe even flinty nuances. Rich but immaculate and highly finessed on the palate, this is a stimulating, even salivating saline and filigree- structured TBA that develops a very long and lively, even energetic finish due to this stunning, even mineral acidity. This is an ageless TBA that still has a long life ahead. 10% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in Illmitz in June 2025. (100/100 Stephan Reinhardt | The Wine Advocate) 2005 TBA 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 TBA 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 TBA in 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. (100/100 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.

Alois and Gerhard Kracher's 2005 Trockenbeerenauslese No 7 Grande Cuvée Nouvelle Vague is part of the 2025 Library Release and another stellar wine in the history of this domaine in Illmitz. Given the fact that this dark orange-colored noble sweet wine was aged in barriques, it displays a lovely deep yet pure, fresh and aromatic bouquet of stewed stone fruits and citrus fruit intermingled with nuances of nougat, toast, salt and caramel, maybe even flinty nuances. Rich but immaculate and highly finessed on the palate, this is a stimulating, even salivating saline and filigree-structured TBA that develops a very long and lively, even energetic finish due to this stunning, even mineral acidity. This is an ageless TBA that still has a long life ahead. 10% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in Illmitz in June 2025. 100/100 By Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate Peach! Peach! More peach! But black raspberry too and crushed raspberry pips. Wow. Simply incredible in its purity and sheer fruit intensity. There’s toffee apple, butterscotch and crème brulée (in fact, much more brulée – the lovely bitterness of burnt sugar – than crème). Then one finds the minerality – saline, but stony too and almost slightly flinty in that very clean, pure, brilliant way. The texture is incredible – succulent, soft, crystalline and then energised by the freshness of the wondrous citrous element that arrive last of all and then interweave themselves with those peaches and, on the finish, we’re back to peaches, peaches and more peaches. Just wow! There are tears in my eyes. 100/100 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