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.

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. by Stephan Reinhardt - 100/100 The Wine Advocate