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  • Country ranking ?

    650
  • Producer ranking ?

    55
  • Decanting time

    10min
  • When to drink

    now to 2020
  • Food Pairing

    Seafood, Salads & Consommes

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The Story

Unique to the House of Krug, every Krug Vintage is crafted to be different, to reveal the expression of a particular year. A year with character, a year with a special story to tell in a way that Krug alone can relate. To narrate this story, Krug has blended very expressive wines from a single year, enhanced by a stay of over ten years in the cellars. Krug Vintage is the story of a year as seen by Krug; there are as many stories as there are K...

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Wine Information

For many people, there are champagnes and then there is Krug; that is how legendary this house is. Established in 1843 by Johann-Joseph Krug, the house has for six generations admirably stuck to its quality principles, to its generous burnt style and to its fabulous ageing potential. After the retirement of the fifth-generation brothers Henri and Rémi Krug, the house has been looking for its place within the LVMH Group. After two years at the ...

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Average Bottle Price

2015 2012 2010 2005
1 612€ +21.9% 1 322€ +48.5% 890€ +40.6% 633€

This data comes from the FINE Auction Index, a composite of average prices for wines sold at commercial auctions in 20 countries. The average prices from each year have been collected since 1990. This chart plots the index value of the average price of the wines.

Tasting note

color

Full

ending

Medium and Pure

flavors

Vanilla, Coffee, Honey, Truffles and Nutty

nose

Intense

recommend

Yes

taste

Perfectly balanced, Well-structured, Harmonious, Elegant and Full

Written Notes

This is what Krug is all about! Mature and exotic the nose of the '71 is unbeatable. The taste lacks the right concentration and length to take the score up to 100 points, but the nose is perfect, as is the aromatic breadth in the taste. The innumerable aromas are honeysuckle, honey, cakes, strawberry jam, boiled vegetables, popcorn—the list is as long as you care to make it. Unusually, the taste hints more at Chardonnay than Pinot Noir.

  • 96p

There were too many crazy wines being opened downstairs in the cellar to linger upstairs, so I headed back down to one of the wines of the night, and it was only fitting that Big Boy had something to do with it. Some wines are so good that words feel inadequate, and this magnum of 1971 Krug was one of them. Its nose sparkled and crackled, like a flawless diamond meeting the Macy’s 4th of July fireworks show. It had an addictive quality to its nose; once you started you did not want to stop. White, crystallized fruits along with an icily great character, the Krug exploded in my mouth, resulting in a bevy of inappropriate and immature jokes from the distinguished guests around me lol. This bubbly had enough liftoff for Nasa; in fact, that’s what it finish felt like, those jets burning under a rocketship heading to outerspace, ready for the endless. This was an unbelievable magnum of a legendary Champagne (99M).

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Information

Origin

Reims, Champagne

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Very good

Investment potential

Good

Fake factory

None

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