2000 Alois Kracher Scheurebe TBA #9 Zwischen den Seen

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 94.5 points

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  1/3/2024 - devraj Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Dark amber in color with greenish tints. Complex aromas of orange and yellow citrus peels, apricots, jellied fruits, smoky herbs, warm baking spices and pralines. A ridiculously viscous and oily palate shows swaths of jellied citrus fruits, apricots, confectionary dark berries, very high acidity, and an endless finish leaving behind a dusting of caramel, spice and herbs. Shows incredible balance for such a sweet, diabetes inducing wine -- made by the master of dessert wines.

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  2/12/2021 - honest bob wrote: 89 Points

  From 37,5cl, spongey cork extracted without problem, but you squeeze it and wine drips out: not really a great advertisement for cork as a suitable closure for wines like this, intended to last for decades. This looks like maple syrup and tastes like... maple syrup made of Scheurebe with a little lemon. All in all, it's the most expensive (and perhaps most delicious) pancake topping imaginable. We drank a small glass each with Topfenpalatschinken (not poured on top, although once you've swallowed I suppose it's all the same) and got a major sugar high. More expensive than the equivalent Sauternes (Suduiraut 2003?), less expensive than the equivalent Tokaji 6 Puttonyos (Oremus 1993?), definitely less like wine and more like drinking undiluted maple syrup than either. Worth trying once, this penultimate bottle of my big 2000 Kracher Collection box makes me slightly apprehensive how obscenely sweet #10 will turn out, but then again, there's no hurry. Not confident it was worth the effort that undoubtedly went into producing it, however. NR
  
  Update after 48 hours. Zweder, I salute you! (TN 15.04.2007): "Flowers and muscatel in the bouquet. Enormously concentrated syrup with also flowers and muscatel in the taste." You nailed it. Now this is a bit more like 70% Muscatel and 30% Lustau-style P.X., but it's 13 years later, after all. 88-89P

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  5/29/2020 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:

  Perfect with the cheese course. Fresh apricots, some persimmon, minerals, meadow flowers. Lovely texture, clean, lingering finish. Invites another taste. Beautiful. highly recommended

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  10/29/2016 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  A wonderful effort from genius Alois Kracher. The nose first reveals rich beeswax, mature apricot and sunwarm lemon curd. There is a secondary layer which emerges after some time in the glass exhibiting rich violet and cardamom muffins... The latter perhaps not your everday experience in wine, but certainly so tonight. The palate follow through in a pleasant way with perfect integration and a close to seamless length on the finish lasting some 75 seconds or more. This is a true gem. A beautiful wine with plenty of texture and structure to last for many more years. Well worth having a sip if given the chance!

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  12/12/2013 - Winetex Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Apricot syrup goodness. Very good but lacked a touch of acidity.

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