2004 Alois Kracher Grande Cuvée TBA #6 Nouvelle Vague

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 93.1 points

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  2/14/2024 - WindFlyer Likes this wine: 95 Points

  [from 375ml bottle; number 6 of 10 in the 2004 Kracher TBA collection]
  
  golden amber colour and mildly viscous. quince, orange peel, apricot, and honeycomb on the nose, perfumed by soft acacia and honeysuckle blossoms. very silky in the mouth, intense apricot flavours with lemony acidity take the lead. good botrytis character with beeswax, orange marmalade, quince jam, a streak of ginger spice, and a subtle savoury minerality. very long.
  
  complex and developed at twenty, and with a handful of years ahead at least. better on the cool side.
  
  10.5% AbV; 210g/L RS; 7.3g/L acidity; 50% Chardonnay/ 50% Welschriesling; 60% vinified in new French oak barrels (thus the Nouvelle Vague designation), 40% in new 1000L cask; aged for twenty-two months

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  8/11/2022 - pgartner Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Very special these KRACHER dessert wines.

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  12/5/2021 - devraj Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Amber with green tints around the edges. Aromas of orange zest, vanilla, resin, spice box and honey suckle. The palate is unctuous showing sweet and oily quince paste, orange marmalade, honey, good acidity and a very viscous, perfumed & never ending finish.

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  4/25/2021 - devraj Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Deep gold in color. Lovely aromas of apricots, orange zest, saffron and baking spices. Unctuous and viscous palate shows superb depth to the apricot, peach and orange marmalade, vanilla creme-brûlée, excellent acidity and an endless sweet and spice-box laden finish.

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  1/1/2021 - Lsqrd1964 Likes this wine: 97 Points

  We had this wine for dessert as we awaited the new year. The wine had been bought in Austria in release and brought over to London where it sat in temperature controlled conditions. It was superb, one of the best older Kracher TBA’s I’ve had. The wine’s nose is exploded out of the glass, filling the kitchen with smells of quinces, passion fruit mangoes and a touch of citrus. The wine was dark amber in colour and seemed almost to glisten in the light. In the mouth, all those flavours mixed up with a touch of spices and a little creaminess (not really vanilla but something sweet, like very slight touches of caramel). All this was delivered in a beautiful structured, layered, elegant way. Everyone, including my youngest son just loved it. A great experience with a little Stilton cheese and apple (probably the wrong pairing, but everyone enjoyed it, particularly the apple, which seemed to complement the wine as if one was eating very delicate apple pie with nutmeg and cinnamon dusted on top). Fantastic last wine of 2020 and a positive note to a very tough year for so many.

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