In the glass
Aroma: citrus, stone fruit, toasted nuts, spice, honey
Palate: vinous depth, fine chalk, complex savoury core, very long finish
Krug's expression of a single year: citrus and stone fruit over toasted nuts, spice and honey, with vinous depth, fine chalk and a complex, savoury, very long finish.
What it pairs with
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Roast poularde with morels
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Vinous depth meets roast and mushroom. -
Aged Comte
Toasted-nut savour meets the cheese's crystals. -
Grilled langoustines
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Chalk and depth meet sweet shellfish.
History
Krug Vintage captures the character of a single year, made only when the house judges the harvest worthy and aged long in its oak-influenced style.
- 1928 — Early benchmark Krug Vintage release
Facts
- Producer
- Krug
- Grapes
- Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Oak-cask fermentation; single declared vintage; long lees ageing
- ABV
- 12.0%
- Price
- EUR 280 to 420 at retail
- Drinking window
- 10 to 35 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1928
Scores
- Vinous 96 (2008 vintage, reviewed 2021)