Kracher Grand Cuvee Nouvelle Vague TBA No. 6 (375ML) 2015

Professional Ratings

• 97 Wine Enthusiast
  Candied pineapple and candied lemon zest on the nose coalesce on the palate around a wonderfully tart core of purest passion fruit. This is rich and tense, taut but sweet, aromatic and heady. Each drop sends sweet ripples of aroma across the palate, while lovely citrus pulls the focus. The finish has a lovely herbaceous edge of bergamot and citrus foliage. Lovely tension. Drink until 2035.
• 97 James Suckling
  Beautiful, golden fruit that glows in the autumn sunshine! Very rich and lush, but with the acidity to carry all this opulence. The finish is as complex as it is fresh with some savage beauty. Drink or hold.
• 96 Jeb Dunnuck
  The 2015 Trockenbeerenauslese No 6 Grande Cuvee Nouvelle Vague is made mostly from Chardonnay, yet includes 30% Welschriesling, all aged 18 months in larger oak tanks. It’s a vibrant, racy beauty that has perfumed notes of tangerines, passion fruits, mint, and honey in its full-bodied yet clean, silky, beautifully balanced style. This is yet another dessert wine from Kracher that packs an incredible amount of sweetness and character in a fresh, balanced, elegant package that’s a joy to drink. Drink it anytime over the coming 2-3 decades.
• 95 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  The 2015 Trockenbeerenauslese No 6 "Grande Cuvée" Nouvelle Vague is a blend of barrel-fermented Chardonnay (70%) and Welschriesling (30%) that was aged in a 1,000-liter oak vat, both parts for 18 months. The wine offers a very clear, precise, fresh, intense and really distinctive bouquet with aromas of stewed quinces and lemons. On the palate, this is a highly delicate and perfectly balanced TBA with great finesse and purity (despite its high concentration). The acidity is very fine and persistently salty, and if there are any tannins, these are very fine too. A great elegant, finessed, beautifully balanced TBA.
• 95 Wine & Spirits

  Ripeness came easily in 2015, a hot year, and the botrytis was abundant and clean. Kracher made a dozen sweet wines that vintage, including his flagship, Nummer 6. It’s a blend of chardonnay and welschriesling, two varieties that have been growing in the region since the 12th century. And it’s insanely sweet, with 238.8 grams per liter of residual sugar. But once the sugar-shock wears off, a calm warmth floods the palate, a plush, humid texture carrying notes of pineapple, orange and sweet pumpkin preserves. It feels like sunshine in liquid form, a radiant wine to serve alone or with an apricot tart.

• 91 Wine Spectator
  Silky and fresh-tasting for a dessert wine, with well-cut minerality through the notes of white raisin, dried pineapple and papaya. Features a long, well-defined finish. Drink now through 2027.