In the glass
Aroma: toast, brioche, stone fruit, verbena, vanilla pastry cream, baba au rhum
Palate: peach in syrup, ripe citrus, toasted pine nut, lemon
A multi-vintage blend of extraordinary breadth: expressive toast and brioche over stone fruit, an unctuous creamy palate and a crisp mouthwatering lemon finish.
What it pairs with
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Oysters and shellfish on ice
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The wine's creamy weight and saline lemon finish flatter raw shellfish. -
Roast chicken with morels
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Toast and pine-nut notes echo the roast while acidity lifts the cream sauce. -
Comte aged 24 months
Nutty barley-sugar depth meets the cheese's crystalline savour.
History
Joseph Krug founded the house in 1843 with the radical idea of building a non-vintage prestige blend every year from a vast library of reserve wines, rather than chasing a single vintage. Each Grande Cuvee release carries an ID code tracing its blend and disgorgement.
- 1843 — Joseph Krug founds the house in Reims
- 2011 — Krug introduces the ID code linking each Grande Cuvee bottle to its blend and disgorgement
Facts
- Producer
- Krug
- Grapes
- Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Vinified in small oak casks, then blended across more than 120 wines from over ten vintages
- ABV
- 12.0%
- Price
- EUR 180 to 260 at retail
- Drinking window
- now to 25 from release
- First vintage
- 1843
Scores
- Vinous 95