Seewinkel dessert wine specialist between Illmitz and the Neusiedlersee shore, world renowned for botrytis affected Trockenbeerenauslese from Welschriesling and Chardonnay.
Tasting: By appointment through the estate shop office in Illmitz.
Tip: The numbered Trockenbeerenauslese cuvées reward a decade or more of bottle age.
The Kracher family's Seewinkel vinotheque pours three generations of botrytised sweet wines alongside dry whites, in the same building as the family's Illmitz winery. Summer tastings happen under the vine arbor; November-to-March weekend visits need advance booking.
A comparative tasting programme at the Kracher family cellars walking visitors through the Prädikat ladder from Beerenauslese to Trockenbeerenauslese, using the estate's own botrytised Welschriesling, Chardonnay and Scheurebe lots as teaching pours.
Tip: Book at least an hour ahead outside summer; November-to-March weekend sessions run by appointment only.
Four Illmitz accommodation properties (28 double rooms, 5 apartments and a vacation home, renovated 2021-2022) run by Yvonne Kracher of Familienweingut Kracher, with complimentary tastings at the family's internationally known sweet-wine cellar included for every guest.
Wine focus: Every guest receives complimentary tasting access at Weinlaubenhof Kracher; enhanced group packages add a full guided tasting at the winery
Tip: Book the group wine-tasting add-on in advance; the heated pool runs May to September.