Tasting Highlights: Alois Kracher

Magnificent sweet wines from one of the world's finest producers
Kim Marcus
Posted: January 17, 2006

Austria's Alois Kracher is one of the world's great makers of sweet wine. Based in the Burgenland district, south of Vienna, near the large, shallow lake called Neusiedler See, Kracher utilizes a variety of grapes for his sweeties, though the best are made from Welschriesling (a white grape not related to Riesling), Chardonnay and Scheurebe (a cross between Riesling and Sylvaner).

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