Kracher Welschriesling Trockenbeerenauslese No. 11 (375ML) 2010

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2010

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375ML

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Rich golden-yellow tone. Intense aromas of herbed spice, a touch of smoke over nougat, subtle fig, apricot and honey. The palate is luscious and succulent with fruit-driven flavors of orange; intense and elegant, with complexity and concentration of fruit. Despite the spectrum of the technical data, the wine is exceptionally harmonious, with long development potential.

Grape: 100% Welschriesling

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  • 97
    The 2010 Welschriesling Trockenbeerenauslese No 11 Zwischen den Seen offers a very clear and spicy, deep apricot and quince confiture, as well as pineapple aroma. There are also aromas of smoked bacon, refreshing lemon and kumquat flavors, as well as potted ginger. Highly elegant and perfectly balanced on the palate, this is a concentrated but finesse-full and fresh, brilliantly fruity and aromatic TBA. It has ripe stone fruit aromas and an enormously salty acidity, and is highly elegant and long. The sweetness of 351 grams per liter is countered by an extraordinary acidity of 13 grams per liter. This is a beauty made for decades. Lots of lemon flavors in the finish. Rating: 97(+) Points
  • 96
    This opulent wine glides on the palate with richness combined with wonderful acidity. It is the intense freshness and sweetness that shows most strongly along with the super-rich, full texture. This is a superb wine for long aging, drink from 2018.
  • 96
    Like most everyone in Illmitz in the 1050s, Alois Kracher, Sr. was a farmer. Grapes were just one of his many crops in those lean post-war years. On the eastern side of Austria's Lake Neusiedl, close to the Hungarian border, Illmitz wasn't a wine town at the time.

    Grapes, however, were what interested him most. With the region's warm summers and the moist air off the lake that sent fog into the vineyards, botrytis wasn't hard to come by, and Kracher soon developed a name for his lush sweet wines.

    The winery's reputation grew after his son, Alois, Jr., took over in the late 1980s. Not only did he enlarge the estate's holdings but also he insisted on vinifying and bottling each of his vineyrads separately-resulting in more than a dozen TBAs on the market at once, some of them aged in barrique. By the time he died in 2007, his wines had firmly put Illmitz in the pantheon of the world's greatest sweet wine towns.

    Since then, Alois's son, Gerhard, has continued putting out countless variations on sweet wine. (Even Kracher admits things get a little crazy sometimes; last fall, he noticed a vineyard after harvest still swathed in netting. "The grapes were beautiful, he says, "So I called my vineyard manager to ask him if he knew who owned it. And then it hit me-$%^*! It's ours! We'd forgotten it.")

    The Cuvee Blend line ranges from Spatlese to Beerenauslese in ripeness; TBAs from their own line, each one numbered and labeled either Zwischen Den Seen to indicate a traditional style or Nouvelle Vague for barrel-aged wines. In 2009, Nummer 8 corresponds to a wildly fragrant and expressive rose muscat; Nummer 10 is a scheurebe that's stunning in the clarity of its stone-fruit flavor, balanced with savory notes of chamomile and green tea. And the 2010 Nummer 11 outdoes them all with its buoyantly luxurious texture. Made from the oft-maligned welschriesling, it's a terrific example of the Kracher approach: experiment, experiment, experiment, until something wonderful occurs.

  • 93
    Features an essence of apricot nectar, with plush and well-spiced flavors of peach pie, apple cobbler and cream that are mouthfilling and rich. Delivers a long, fat finish of lemon curd. Drink now through 2030. 150 cases made.

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Located in the Seewinkel, an area in the Burgenland region of Austra, along the eastern shore of Lake Neusiedl, Weinlaubenhof Alois Kracher is in possession of a microclimate uniquely suited to the production of Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese wines. 32 hectares of vineyards are planted with Welschriesling, Chardonnay, Traminer, Muskat Ottonel and Scheurebe. Kracher is internationally regarded as one of the finest dessert wine makes. After Alois Kracher passed away in December 2007, his 27 year-old son Gerhard took over responsibility of winemaking. He manages the winery with the same strength, firm will and consequence as his famous father once did.

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Apart from the classics, we find many regional gems of different styles.

Late harvest wines are probably the easiest to understand. Grapes are picked so late that the sugars build up and residual sugar remains after the fermentation process. Ice wine, a style founded in Germany and there referred to as eiswein, is an extreme late harvest wine, produced from grapes frozen on the vine, and pressed while still frozen, resulting in a higher concentration of sugar. It is becoming a specialty of Canada as well, where it takes on the English name of ice wine.

Vin Santo, literally “holy wine,” is a Tuscan sweet wine made from drying the local white grapes Trebbiano Toscano and Malvasia in the winery and not pressing until somewhere between November and March.

Rutherglen is an historic wine region in northeast Victoria, Australia, famous for its fortified Topaque and Muscat with complex tawny characteristics.

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The source of Austria’s finest botrytized sweet wines, Burgenland covers a lofty portion of Austria's wine producing real estate. It encompasses the smaller regions of Neusiedlersee, Neusiedlersee-Hügelland, Mittelburgenland and Südburgenland. The latter two are most associated with their exceptional red wines. The region as a whole produces no shortage of important whites.

Neusiedlersee, named for the lake that it surrounds to the east, is home to a great diversity of grape varieties. The region’s most notable wines, however, are the botrytis-infected, sweet versions.

Neusiedlersee-Hügelland, which wraps the lake on its western side, includes the town of Rust, a historically esteemed wine community. Its close proximity to the lake’s fog and mist make it another source of some of the more prestigious botrytized wines. Neusiedlersee-Hügelland also produces fine Blaufränkisch, Pinot Blanc, Neuburger and Grüner Veltliner, though a label will usually name the more general, Burgenland, so as not to confuse it with its eastern cousin, Neusiedlersee, across the lake.

Blaufränkisch is well suited to and makes up over half of the vineyard area in Mittelburgenland. The region’s hills and plateaus, which are composed of variations in schist, loess and clay-limestone, produce high quality reds with interesting diversity.

Südburgenland, also known for its deep, complex and age-worthy Blaufränkisch, is beginning to turn out some alluring whites from Grüner Veltliner, Welschriesling and Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc).

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