Kracher & Liliac
Kracher Ice Wine ‘Liliac & Kracher’ 375ml
Transylvania
$79.00
Min. Quantity: 3
The ultimate aim with Ice Wine, is to produce a wine with all the power and sweetness of a Beerenauslese or a Trockenbeerenauslese, but without the influence of botrytis (though occasionally, some botrytis can occur). The 'Liliac & Kracher' Ice Wine is a joint venture between Rudolf Krizan, the winemaker at Liliac in Romania and Gerhard Kracher from the well-known Austrian Kracher wine family, who have been making sweet wines for generations. Most interestingly, this Ice Wine is made from grapes that were grown in Transylvania, in Romania, in order to find the coldest climate in a warming planet to make this style of wine. The final result is a superb Ice Wine that shows an immense concentration of sweetness and complexity along with a good acid structure. This sweet wine displays delicate notes of white stone fruit, lychee and pineapple, along with a hint of honey on the finish.
Expert Reviews & Awards
"‘This is a joint venture between Rudolf Krizan, the winemaker at Liliac in Romania, and Gerhard Kracher of Austrian fame. Kracher, indicating that climate change makes it "harder and harder to produce ice wine in the Burgenland," joins Krizan in making a wine in Romania, where, they thought, "this region offers the perfect conditions to produce this kind of wine every single year."
Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate - December 2017
"'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.'
Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate - February 2018
Winemaking Notes
Made from Neuberger (71%), Pinot Gris (6%) and Muscat Ottonel.
Ice Wine (Eiswein) is made from grapes frozen on the vine. The grapes need to be hard frozen at temperatures of -8°C or less.
The fruit was hand-picked and whole-bunch pressed while frozen, so that the ice (water) was removed, thus dramatically increasing the concentration of sugars and flavours in the grape. The pressed juice was then fermented and matured for 16 months in stainless steel tanks.
Producer
Kracher & Liliac
The 'Liliac & Kracher' Ice Wine is a joint venture between Rudolf Krizan, the winemaker at Liliac in Romania and Gerhard Kracher from the well-known Austrian Kracher wine family, who have been making sweet wines for generations. Most interestingly, this Ice Wine is made from grapes that were grown in Transylvania, in Romania, in order to find the coldest climate in a warming planet to make this style of wine.
Details
Closure: Cork
Country: Romania
Wine Body: Medium Bodied
Wine Sweetness: Sweet
Size: 375ml
Non Alcoholic: No
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