Alois Kracher Chardonnay TrockenBeeren Auslese (TBA) #7 Nouvelle Vague 2001
We opened this for an evening of causal sipping with artisan cheeses and biscuits. May of the strong cheeses are best paired with the sweet wines such as this.
We hold more than a dozen labels of Kracher wines from this era. Its fun
to watch quality dessert wines mature and change color over time, from
straw color, to butter, then weak tea, and progressing darker and darker
over time. Note this color of tea at seventeen years of age.
As I have written in the past, at their most desirable (to my taste preference) these wines are rich,
thick, unctuous, and voluptuous with apricot marmalade, mango,
toffee/brown sugar, and caramel notes. This may have been there at some
point and perhaps passed that stage of its aging profile. If so, then it
is time to drink although it will no doubt continue to age gracefully
for several more years. But the rich, sweet apricot fruits nectar was
gone and has turned more to a smokey charcoal layer over the fruits
which were more subdued. Delightful never-the-less.
RM 91 points.
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