{"product_id":"kracher-pinot-gris-2023-screw-cap","title":"Kracher Pinot Gris 2023 (screw cap)","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVariety:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pinot Gris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCountry, Region:\u003c\/strong\u003e Austria, Burgenland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAppellation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Burgenland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e100% Pinot Gris, fermented and matured on fine lees for 18 months in stainless steel tanks and a small portion in used barrels.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #752575;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"From a very warm and dry year and aged for 15 months on the fine lees entirely in stainless steel, the 2023 Pinot Gris trocken offers a clear, precise and fresh, even savory and slightly flinty bouquet with the characterful Illmitz features that combine elegant and charming fruit with delicate saline nuances. The wine is round and textured on the palate due to the extended sur lie aging and reveals serious tannic grip and elegant intensity that leads to a very good, well-concentrated but balanced finish. This is a very good Pinot Gris for such a warm vintage. “Twenty years ago, you could easily take two weeks to harvest Pinot Gris, but now, in warm autumns, you only have three days,” says Gerhard Kracher. ”After that, the sugar content can skyrocket and the acidity can plummet, making the wines too heavy and broad.” Kracher's 2023 Pinot Gris is an excellent modern wine with character and a great talent to pair with countless dishes. 12.5% stated alcohol. Screw-cap closure. Tasted at Weinlaubenhof Kracher in Illmitz, Burgenland, in June 2025.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 92 points, \u003c\/span\u003eStephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate, June 2025.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0115\/8329\/1492\/files\/Kracher_Logo1_edited-1_50ecc16b-1ba5-4178-805c-f144846ff355_480x480.png?v=1584603790\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"139\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #752575;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Gerhard Kracher, genius of the Trockenbeerenauslese category. In the late 1980s and up to his early death in 2007, Alois Kracher handcrafted some of the greatest noble sweet wines of the world. His annual collections of numbered TBAs (Trockenbeerenauslesen), produced in Illmitz at the lake Neusiedl, became legends and were often presented along with the finest sweet wines from Sauternes (namely Château d’Yquem), Tokaji (Szepsi) and Mosel-Saar-Ruwer (Egon Müller, Joh. Jos. Prüm). Alois’s son Gerhard Kracher has managed to maintain the extremely high level of quality.' \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate, February 2018.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThere are no secrets to the production of Kracher’s unparalleled range of remarkable sweet wines, headlined of course each year by up to a dozen or more trockenbeerenauslese cuvées. For three generations the Kracher family has led the way in the Seewinkel, that corner (winkel) of Austria to the east of Lake Neusiedl, just an hour’s drive from Vienna. It was Alois Kracher Senior, back in the ‘50s and ‘60s who first realised the potential of the area for quality wine growing. Then in 1991, Alois Junior (Luis) set the world on fire with his ‘new’ style of dessert wine, focussing on finesse and balance more than just outright sweetness. From there he went on to win the British Wine Journal’s ‘Winemaker of the Year’ title 5 times, before his untimely passing in 2007.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eLuis’ son Gerhard has now been running the estate for a decade and has deftly picked up where his father left off, winning the International Wine Challenge ‘Sweet Winemaker of the Year’ award in 2009. Each year though, the recipe remains the same, driven by a relentless attention to detail. In the vineyard yields are kept incredibly low with each vine limited to just 3 bunches of grapes. In the cellar, each individual parcel is vinified separately, often in lots as small as a hundred litres or so. Malolactic fermentation is avoided to retain the grapes’ high natural acidity and sulphur use is kept to a minimum. Two styles of TBA are produced: \u003cem\u003eZwischen den Seen\u003c\/em\u003e (between the lakes), vinified in stainless steel or large oak casks; and \u003cem\u003eNouvelle Vague\u003c\/em\u003e (new wave), vinified in French oak barriques.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eAlongside the world-famous TBAs, Kracher also makes a vibrant Auslese Cuvée, that is both great value and great drinking, an always brilliant Beerenauslese Cuvée and an exciting new \u003cem\u003eIce Wine\u003c\/em\u003e from the hills of Transylvania in Romania. And although sweet wines have long been Kracher’s forte, today its dry wines are earning considerable acclaim, with its Pinot Gris, Welschreisling and Zweigelt gaining an enthusiastic following for quality and outstanding value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e What makes the wines so special?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1584600895568_644\"\u003eThe Seewinkel is an area in the Burgenland region of eastern Austria, approximately 20 km wide, along the eastern shore of Lake Neusiedl. It is an immense plain, with countless shallow lakes of various sizes scattered throughout it. Most of these lakes, including the largest, Lake Neusiedl, are less than two metres deep. The Pannonian (continental) climate brings hot dry summers and very cold winters and it is these extremes that create a unique climate for viticulture. During cool autumn evenings, evaporation from the numerous lakes creates heavy fog, which covers the area until midday when the still strong sunlight burns through. This helps to create the necessary conditions for the formation of the noble rot, \u003cem\u003ebotrytis cinerea, \u003c\/em\u003ethat is the key to the immense concentration, sweetness and complexity of the greatest sweet wines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buzz Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48693566669050,"sku":"AKR23PGRIS","price":49.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0115\/8329\/1492\/products\/Pinot_GrisNV_ef26eb84-0440-4fec-8005-c732ec783f1f.jpg?v=1671054521","url":"https:\/\/buzzwines.com\/products\/kracher-pinot-gris-2023-screw-cap","provider":"Buzz Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}