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Krug Grande Cuvée

Champagne from Ambonnay, Champagne

$300

Closure: Cork
Affectionately called K-r-ah-g by many! One of Champagne's Standard Bearer's. Such a complex and layered wine.

Description

Krug’s Grande Cuvée is, for many, their best wine & best value wine. Using old oak to ferment and age base wines, long periods on lees, blending across a dozen different years and well over 100 wines. It’s rich developed style that everyone should try at least once! Fascinatingly they grow just 35% of their fruit buying the rest from as far away the Côte de Bar and Les Riceys. Areas not typically associated with prestige Cuvées, although that is slowly changing.

Hot tip for all ‘good’ Champagne, don’t drink it too cold. 10-14ºC from a decent sized glass not a flute will be give loads more pleasure!

We’re currently stocking the 166ème Édition Krug ID 117008

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Why is this Wine so Yummy?

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As you taste it, notes of toasted bread, hazelnut, nougat, barley sugar and jellied fruits may take you by surprise. You may even taste hints of apples still on the tree, flowers in bloom, ripe and dried fruit, almonds, marzipan, gingerbread, sweet spices and even brioche and honey.
You may also notice its exceptional freshness in the mouth, with rich and tangy flavours of lemon and grapefruit enhanced by the subtlety of its fine and elegant bubbles. Krug Grande Cuvée can age beautifully.

This bottle spent at least 7 years in Krug’s cellars developing its particular expression and elegance, receiving its cork in winter 2016 – 2017.

This bottle belongs to the 166ème Édition, a blend of 140 wines from 13 different years. The youngest dates back to 2010 and the oldest to 1996. Every glass poured from it is the fruit of around 19 years of careful craftsmanship.

Krug Grande Cuvée 166ème Édition was composed around the harvest of 2010. A year defined by its tumultuous climate, the grapes nonetheless showed great promise until the cool end to the growing season brought cause for concern. The careful attention given to the vines during this challenging period and Krug’s unique respect for the individual character of each plot proved crucial to ensuring a yield in good health and of ideal maturity. Unusually, the Chardonnay wines from the Côte de Blancs region did not reveal their habitual freshness, but the House’s non-conformist approach to Champagne creation led us to counterbalance this with the vivacity of the year’s Meunier wines, such as those from Sainte-Gemme and Courmas.

A selection of carefully chosen, relatively young reserve wines makes up 42% of the composition, most notable among them those from the year 2000 for their remarkable structure and those from Oger for their generous roundness. The 2006 wines from Verzy and Bouzy added the final touch to the blend, imparting to it the harmony so essential to the creation of every Édition of Krug Grande Cuvée.

The final composition of this bottle of Krug Grande Cuvée is 45% Pinot Noir, 39% Chardonnay and 16% Meunier.

Where in the world does the magic happen?

Champagne Krug, Rue Coquebert, Reims, France

Ambonnay
Champagne

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