Weinlaubenhof Kracher, Nouvelle Vague Traminer TBA Nr1, Burgenland

Keith's Italian Wine Dinner (Osteria Langhe - Chicago IL) : Sweet and rich with good depth showing fresh and dried apricot with a maple syrup note. Good now.

2000 vintage

wow. intense nose. very aromatic. coffee, caramel, orange marmalade, honey, dried orange peels, coffee, roasted almonds, nuts, white blossoms. dried apricots, orange, white peach. raisins. toffee. insanely complex, i could go on and on. intense palate, full body, low alcohol. long finish. high acidity. luscious. caramel, honeysuckle, orange marmalade, honey. toffee, dried citrus peels, hints of savouriness. 17.5/20

2000 vintage

At first this juice was a bit cloying with tight coiled acidity. After cork pull and replacement this needed a couple hours in the fridge to wake up and come together. Expressive and expansive nose of smokey bitter orange, white raisin flesh, green melon, dry Lychee and exotic baking spice hints, On the palate the concentration and length are impressive, apricot, lychee, a pleasant bitter orange edge, brown sugar, Grip with good acidity to juxtapose the honeyed fruit. Very Clean …

2000 vintage

Eastside Tasting Group End of Year Extravaganza (Newcastle, WA) : Thick and intense with botrytis and apricot. I think I prefer these in their youth.

2000 vintage

delicious, still plenty of life

2000 vintage

Brad Feels Like Cooking Dinner (Brad's Place, St. Paul, MN) : Light amber color. Drank a small pour from 500ml. There's a lot going on here. The fruit is a complex malange of ripe apple, baked apricot, orange marmalade, golden raisin and a even a red cherry note at times. This has got the acidity to totally handle the sweetness and there's some fantastic spice notes, in particular an orange cinnamon stick note. This has a lot of untuous goodness …

2000 vintage

From 37,5 cl, excellent cork. Finally a 2000 Kracher from my big wooden box which I genuinely like! Imagine an ancient PX sherry without the burnt raisin character but with the thickest of thick textures, a ton of glycerine and every other penetrating, sweet gorgeousness. Then add sumptuously ripe, piercing acidity. Yup, we're in heaven. An excellent partner to bitter chocolate. No hurry, but no reason to wait. 94P

2000 vintage

From 37,5cl, good cork stained (of course) at end. Now dark brown. This wasn't very nice on 01.05.2007 and 10 years in the cellar haven't helped. Massively sweet and fat, of course, but sadly lacking the vibrancy and/or acid balance and/or exciting fruit and/or botrytis action of a Tokaji of equal price and pedigree. Perhaps the most expensive bottle of maple syrup mixed with molasses and extra demerara sugar I have ever opened... A big disappointment after a fine bottle …

2000 vintage

Diner @ Restaurant Savarijn (Nijmegen , NL) : Pure botrytis and striking concentration. Aromas and flavours of caramelised pineapple, barley sugar and tangerine, underpinned by ripe juicy acidity.

2000 vintage

Not quite as robust when we last had this. It still is quite tasty but I wonder if it's luster is starting to fade. Nevertheless, this is quite lovely. Deep amber color, caramel and subtle orange hints. Drink up!

2000 vintage

From 37,5cl, dried out cork, broke on extraction. Dark gold/bronze colour; intriguing mint/peppermint aroma is the finest feature; very sweet entry of course, quite some caramel, but the low acidity makes for a dull mid-palate and a sullen finish. All in all not exactly distinguished, but Kracher is Kracher, even at this modest level (and they make the best of a grape varietal which I don't think I will ever learn to love). Drink up (86-)87P

2000 vintage

This is simply terrific. Like a tablespoon of honey with orange.

2000 vintage

Beautiful caramel colour. The nose shows honey, mint and dried tropical fruit. Honey on the palate with good sharpness. This is magnificent!

2000 vintage

Consistent with previous notes.

2000 vintage

Drank this as an after dinner sipper, following two great Brunello's 1997 Frescobaldi Reserve and 1997 Lisini Reserve. Solid fruit and not overly sugar-ey. Still had a little bit of tart bite that I did not care for.

2000 vintage

My wife likened this to liquid baklava.Yum.

2000 vintage

Opened 3 days ago , I am in a much better condition to assess this wine. Beautiful clear browning gold. Took a minute to lock in on the nose, it becomes layers of overripe mango, pears, toffee, coconut, roast coffee bean. This was complex, subtle, offering. Always hard for me to move from nose to palate. The transition was just as rewarding. Palate is coating, , viscous , no drop offs from start to finish,subtle acidity supports the lift and …

2000 vintage

Apricot, quince and brown sugar aromas. Palate has very good sweetness balanced with some bright acidity. Drinking near its peak now and over the next few years.

2000 vintage

excellent, length and acidity

2000 vintage

Very dark orange almost brown; light apple nose; very soft, mellow, sweet, apricot; long lingering aftertaste

2000 vintage

yeah!!! On the nose loads of dense apricot, pear, orange marmalade and green apple. Extraordinary nose! Palate is viscous, sweet, ripe mango and pineapple. Very good acidity and overall fabulous.

2000 vintage

This wine was very brown in color definitely showing off its age. With notes of green apple, caramel, nuts, honey, lemon, elderflower liquor, tea, burnt sugar, cream, mango, sweet vermouthand dried coconut. Very explosive in flavor almost psychedlic just kept bursting with flavor like a kalidescope absolutely astonishing.

2000 vintage

Deep golden orange; sweet rustic nose; heavy sweet attack, lots and lots of apricot; dense long aftertaste; very nice but on heavy rustic side

2000 vintage

Developed browning color showing its age, although this wine has all the parts to go another 20 years+. Spice cake, passionfruit and candied apricot all leap from the glass on a spectacularly intense and complex nose. The palate is full bodied, unctuous and thick, but it retains a certain elegance and class. Juicy raisin, woodsy spice, and tropical fruits are all there, with a seemingly never ending finish. Spectacular.

2000 vintage

A Fabulously rich sweet baby with thick layers of caramel and butterscotch with high notes of refined honey. I suppose that those that like more tightly defined structure may not care for this as much but... the hell with them. This is killer stuff that lingers well over several minutes on the palate. This is why you work your ass off to buy the good shit...

2000 vintage

We served this with a second course of foie gras and the pairing was magical. The richness of the foie gras and the sweetness of the Kracher were warming, and delicioius. It was my favorite course of the night. This wine is sweet, with carmel, orange, and a sauterne-like quality. What a treat.

2000 vintage

Dark golden orange-like colour; nose of apple / slightly acidic; very sweet, some acidity, lacking body.

2000 vintage

Delicious. Very sauternes-like, with obvious botrytis, but also fruity (especially pear), as well as acid and mineral reminiscent of iodine. Very sweet but the sugar magically disappears on the long finish.

2000 vintage

Continuing a great tradition, we consumed this wrapping presents after the kids were tucked into bed. Big, fruity, sweet, with nice acid. Probably a little high in sugar content, which means you should keep this for decades before opening. But the perfect match for a nice Christmas Eve ritual, and for playing Santa as the kids sleep.

2000 vintage

Showing much better than 3 years ago. Distinctly lower acid (by Kracher standards!), and almost like drinking buttered caramel. Not as complex as other Kracher's, but for pure decadence this is tough to beat. Showed even better after being open for a day.

2000 vintage

G7 (Pat) : Peaches, pears, honey and apricot. Rich and concentrated. A bit flabby on the finish. Could use a touch more acidity.

2000 vintage

Massively sweet but monolithic. The acid balance is missing at this stage, as if the perfect mango had lost everything which gave it its balance and was just fat, sweet and even overripe. Today: "only" 90P

2000 vintage

WOW, LIKE DRINKING SYRUPY FRUIT NECTARS WITH CITRUS, MELONS, AND APRICOTS. LONG FINISH.

2000 vintage

Jonathan Dinh Birthday Eve Magnum Dinner (Tanglewood Restaurant, San Jose, California) : Caramel, butterscotch nose; great caramel palate with good acidity; long finish

2000 vintage

Dinner at Charles Morgan's flat (Kensington, London, UK) : Light gold. A very good but not great Kracher only made more obvious next to the '89 Heimbourg SGN. Medium bodied and very peachy, this wine was extremely thick, just on the edge of cloying. Very sweet from start to finish. 50+12+11+8+8 = 89

2000 vintage

Good, but not in the realms of the truly mind-blowing Kracher TBA's. Fantastic concentration, and lengthy finish, but just a touch lacking in complexity and acid. Even with 6.5 g/l acidity, it seemed a touch flabby. Lots of botrytis, apple, and pear on the nose with rich apricot and spicy botrytis on the palate, with some creamy caramel flavors as well. The Welschriesling & Scheurebe ZDS cuvees seem to be the best. Three days later seems to be richer, more …

2000 vintage

I tasted the spicy, and definitely the searing that someone mentioned. This is alcoholic without feeling pleasantly warm. Definite nose of apricots. Spicy apricots on the palate? I didn't like this much at all, even over three days. I can see the intensity and even some complexity in it, but it was so far from being smooth I didn't enjoy it.

2000 vintage

STG Does 90 and Older CdP (Issaquah, WA) : This bottle had been open in the fridge for 2 day, but it still was glorious. The nose showed super-ripe banana and creme brulee. The palate is so lush and balanced. The finish is simply endless. Yum.

2000 vintage

Seattle Tasting Group does 1990 and older Châteauneuf-du-Pape (Issaquah, WA, USA) : This is a bottle which Jason opened two days earlier. Stunningly ripe with rotting pears. On the palate this is unctuous, thick and terrific stuff!

2000 vintage

Seattle Tasting Group does Syrah (Seattle, WA, USA) : This is almost Muscat-like with a hint of orange. On the palate this is intense and slightly cloying, searing and spicy.

2000 vintage

Dinner with the Plambecks. The nose is truly amazing. From the moment I pulled the cork, it filled the room. It showed creme brulee, botrytis, and about anything else you could think of. The palate was even better. I have not had a dessert wine before that was this lush, big, and sweet but in perfect balance. It tasted of creme brulee with an extra dose of vanilla and spanish almonds. It ended with an endless finish.

2000 vintage

Mulled wine, dark honey, butterscotch nose; very tasty, concentrated, layered, honey, apricot, coconut, hazelnut palate, low in acidity; lovely long finish

2000 vintage

Red Carpet: Honey, apricot, rich mth, waxey, frt, and very lite petrol; sweet mth, big and rich.

2000 vintage

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