For generations

Puck, Kracher and a deep friendship

Puck cooked for guests such as Gerhard Kracher and Robert Letz.(Bild: Marion Finger)

Vintage presentation in Illmitz with a prominent Austrian, who (as usual) tasted all those present.

This year, the Kracher family is celebrating the 65th anniversary of its winery. Reason enough to provide a culinary accompaniment to the vintage presentation of their wines in Illmitz this year. And so Wolfgang Puck, the Carinthian who lives in the USA and cooks for all the Oscar stars in Los Angeles every year, took the opportunity to cook for the guests. "I knew his father Alois even before Gerhard was born. The father and also the grandfather," said Puck, who treated those present to Gerhard Kracher with a whole entourage of top culinary artists, "The father always went around the vineyard with a whip and chased away the starlings," he chuckled at the end.

Puck paid a visit to his homeland of Carinthia and cooked everyone up with his culinary delights.(Bild: Marion Finger)

"Wolfgang was the first person in the USA to have our wine on the menu at the first Spago in 1992," says the host about the cross-generational friendship. Witnesses to this top gastro get-together: cooking stars Elliott Grover, Mike Köberl and Robert Letz.