Krug | Rose 26eme Edition – NV

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Sparkling Wine: Krug | Rose 26eme Edition – NV

Like an orchard on a warm day, this leads with enticing floral and ripe fruit aromas.

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Producer: Krug

Ratings: WS | 96 JS | 95

Vintage: NV

Size: 750ml

ABV: 12.5%

Varietal: Champagne Blend

Country/Region: France, Champagne

Like an orchard on a warm day, this leads with enticing floral and ripe fruit aromas.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Based on the 2014 vintage, complemented by some 33% reserve wines from six other vintages, Krug’s new NV Brut Ros 26me dition is showing beautifully, offering up aromas of tart red berries and plums mingled with notions of warm biscuits, dried fruits, flowers and orange zest. Medium to full-bodied, taut and incisive, with terrific concentration, racy acids and a long, penetrating finish, it’s an intensely flavored, electric wine that stands out as a particularly good recent release from this storied house.

• James Suckling: Like an orchard on a warm day, this leads with enticing floral and ripe fruit aromas. On the satiny palate, flavors of baked nectarine, white cherry and raspberry are pure and juicy, layered with rich notes of chopped macadamia nut and brioche, pickled ginger and candied blood orange peel, lime blossoms and chamomile. Finely tuned and harmonious, this is a mouthwatering version, with the flavor range expanding through to the long, lasting finish. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier.

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.