In the glass
Aroma: red berries, spice, rose petal, blood orange
Palate: wild strawberry, pink grapefruit, gentle spice, toast
A vinous, spice-driven rose with greater colour and texture from a relatively high red-wine proportion, the fruit framed by Krug's signature toast.
What it pairs with
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Seared tuna
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The wine's spice and red-fruit grip stand up to seared fish. -
Duck breast
Blood-orange lift cuts the fat; spice echoes the crust. -
Charcuterie board
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Wild-strawberry fruit and toast frame cured meats.
History
Krug shocked the market in 1983 by releasing a rose, applying the same multi-vintage, oak-fermented philosophy as Grande Cuvee to a blend incorporating macerated red Pinot Noir.
- 1983 — First Krug Rose released, the house's first non-Grande-Cuvee multi-vintage cuvee
Facts
- Producer
- Krug
- Grapes
- Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Oak-cask fermentation with a high proportion of skin-macerated red Pinot Noir
- ABV
- 12.0%
- Price
- EUR 280 to 400 at retail
- Drinking window
- now to 20 from release
- First vintage
- 1983
Scores
- Vinous 94