Krug | Grande Cuvee Edition 161 (Double Magnum) – NV

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Sparkling Wine: Krug | Grande Cuvee Edition 161 (Double Magnum) – NV

The flavors are bright, focused and beautifully delineated throughout. Lots of hints of lemon on both the nose and the palate. Nice balance and almost gooseberry flavours on the finish.

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Producer: Krug

Ratings: WA | 95 V | 94

Vintage: NV

Size: 3L

ABV: 12%

Varietal: Champagne Blend

Country/Region: France, Champagne

The flavors are bright, focused and beautifully delineated throughout. Lots of hints of lemon on both the nose and the palate. Nice balance and almost gooseberry flavours on the finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: white peach garlanded in lily-of-the-valley is laced with rich, subtly piquant nut oils and saliva-liberating salinity. day after opening, this is even more vividly complex than it had been initially, with hints of fresh red raspberry lending an invigorating tang and sensation of berry seed-crunching.

• Vinous: The NV Grande Cuve is absolutely stellar. This is one of the very best Grande Cuves I can remember tasting. The flavors are bright, focused and beautifully delineated throughout, all of which make me think the wine will age well for many, many years. Lemon peel, white flowers, crisp pears, smoke and crushed rocks race across the palate in a vibrant, tense Champagne that epitomizes finesse.

Producer Information

Krug is one of Champagne’s most prestigious houses and its wines are among the most collectible and expensive in Champagne. The house was founded in 1843 by Joseph Krug, a native of the Mosel region in Germany, who had moved to France and spent some time working for Jacquesson, the leading Champagne house of the time. Krug’s philosophy was that every Champagne should be the best possible expression, and eschewed the common idea of a hierarchy of Champagne. Instead, he began to craft a premium wine from a reserve of wines vinified separately by the growers themselves, a wine that would eventually become the Grande Cuve. This wine sits alongside the likes of Dom Prignon and Cristal at the top of the Champagne tree, and is a blend of 120 different wines from 10 or more vintages from the so-called Krug Library (a repository of still wines held prior to blending and refermenting in bottle). It is aged for six years, and is noted for its complex brioche and spice characters. Today, the wines are still vinified by individual plot, and are stored in the Krug Library. Every year, the chef de cave heads a tasting committee which decides on the final blend. This library holds reserve wines anywhere from the current vintage to those 50 years old and are produced from Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier, which are all grown at Krug and used throughout the collection. Krug also makes several other Champagnes, including a ros non-vintage and a Krug vintage, which is only produced in the best years. On top of this, there are two rare and highly collectible wines from small, walled plots considered among the best in Champagne: the Krug Clos du Mesnil and Krug Clos d’Ambonnay, produced from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir respectively.