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Krug Vintage 2008

Krug, Champagne, France

Krug
Champagne France
  • 100
    Points
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  • 7 Pros of
    22 recommend
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  • Country ranking ?

    158

  • Producer ranking ?

    8

  • Decanting time

    20min

  • When to drink

    now to 2035

  • Food Pairing

    parmesan shortbread

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Due to the excellent and balanced cool climate of 2008, the grapes could take their time to mature in tranquillity, ultimately exhibiting beautiful freshness upon harvest. Surprisingly, despite these mild and constant conditions, we observed great heterogeneity from plot to plot. The beauty of this contrast was the inspiration to blend complementary flavours and aromas from different plots including Aÿ, Bouzy and Ambonnay. Krug 2008 is a great...

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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

"At first sight, an intense and brilliant golden hue. An expressive nose that is rich and ample with patinated aromas of honey, liquorice, menthol, orange peel and grapefruit. Vivacious, intense and harmonious with great tension on the palate, expressing notes of quince, candied fruits and citrus, yellow kiwi, star fruit, honey, apple tart, butter cookies, orange peel, peony and fennel, with floral and menthol undertones. It has a long, balanc...

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Vintage 2008

2008 -The Champagne vintage set to make history!

A first taste of leading winemakers’ 2008 champagnes reveals a miraculous vintage, bubbling with potential, which – whisper it – might just prove the greatest in living memory.

2008 was not, by any standards, a vintage year for the financial world. And for the greater part of it, 2008 was a pretty poor year for Champagne too: spring was freezing, summer gloomy and overcast. But then, aroun...

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Written Notes

Oh, how many of us that have longed to taste this wine. The extremely slowly developing wine is internally called Classic Beauty at Krug. That will happen for sure, but not now. I meet an unusually clearly Pinot-driven composition but which in the name of honesty is far too young in the spring of 2021. I hope the six months that remain before it is released on a large scale help this mighty albatross to lift, for structure and freshness is really impressive already. The color is youthful light with deeper shades of copper and bronze with a beautiful flowing stream of lively small bubbles. Subdued faint dark and deep scent of leather from terroir in Aÿ, olives from Bouzy, grapefruit, blood orange, licorice and fennel from Ambonnay, mint, fudge, blackberries and blueberries from Meunier. The champagne is a full-bodied, dense, slightly smoky compact manifestation in the mouth. Aromatically, the champagne is reminiscent of Clos d'Ambonnay, which is extremely impressive. In its entirety, my thoughts are on the slightly slippery, slowly developing style of the vintage wine from 2002. The attack is hard and acidic, the mid palate is a compact unison combination of darkest Valrhona chocolate, sweet licorice and Ethiopian highland coffee. Undeveloped acidic long citrus-saturated and peppery aftertaste with hints of lingonberry, cranberry and ginger. Buy everything you see, but promise me not to open the bottle before 2030 as Krug probably has not released such a slow developing wine since they launched the 1961. Patience is one of the house's words of honor and it has seldom been more justified than here.
 

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  • 93p

“This vintage Krug 2008 is painfully slow to age. Its sumptuous nose comes with layers of baked apple, bitter almonds, smoke, dried flowers, acacia honey and buttery biscuits. The palate is viscous with oily qualities, yet tightly knit and stylishly refreshed by the wine’s accentuated, steely acidity. The nose is developing, but the palate has hardly moved since release. It comes with the structure for ageing, deserving further time. 

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  • 94p

 Exceptional freshness with aromas of flinty white stones, flowers, almonds and lemons. There’s hazelnut and strawberry here, too. Complex. The palate has a long, powerful and smooth-honed feel with very assertive citrus flavors, driven by long acidity. A perfect 2008.

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  • 100p

Pale gold, gorgeously rich fruit – peach and honeyed citrus with light yeasty notes. Creamy and shot through with citrus intensity, perhaps a hint of bergamot. With all this depth of flavour, the freshness is notable and perfectly balanced. 

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  • 98p

Krug's 2008 Brut is slated to be released at the end of 2021, but any readers who purchase the wine will need to exercise considerably more patience if they are to enjoy it in its prime, as it is very tightly wound out of the gates. Unwinding in the glass with a youthfully discreet bouquet of clear honey, dried fruit, walnut oil, Meyer lemon and rock salt, it's medium to full-bodied, deep and incisive, with a racy spine of acidity, a pretty pinpoint mousse and a penetrating, saline finish. The polar stylistic opposite of the rich, demonstrative 2006, the 2008 is a rather understated, taut vintage from Krug that isn't as liberally endowed with the house's characteristic toasty patina as its immediate predecessor.

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  • 94p

ID 419044, which I was told on krug.com 'does not exist' - because the wine is not yet released. Lucky me.
Pale greenish coppery colour. Intense evolved nose. A certain nuttiness and lots of lime flavour. Masses of acidity still but real depth too. Light bitterness. Lack of flesh. Structure dominates the filling. Mineral, almost wet cement on nose! Very dry finish. This one should run and run. Extremely zesty.

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  • 94p

Krug Vintage 2008 was in another league than Salon 2004. Flamboyant champagne with a fabulous nose of various fruits like red grapefruit, yellow plums and sweet pineapple. Incredible complexity and sophisticated taste. Full-bodied and with lengthy badass taste. A legend in progress. 98+p.

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  • 98p
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Origin

Reims, Champagne

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At first sight, an intense and brilliant golden hue. An expressive nose that is rich and ample with patinated aromas of honey, liquorice, menthol, orange peel and grapefruit. Vivacious, intense and harmonious with great tension on the palate, expressing notes of quince, candied fruits and citrus, yellow kiwi, star fruit, honey, apple tart, butter cookies, orange peel, peony and fennel, with floral and menthol undertones. It has a long, balanced and precise finish with astounding structure.

Krug 2008 is a beautiful match for oyster tartare with a lobster emulsion, parmesan shortbread, pistachio Chaource in pastry sheets, rabbit terrine with sorrel, tagliatelle with mussels and basil, dishes prepared with aromatic herbs like oregano and thyme or whitefish in a lemon and pepper sauce, as well as desserts that contrast vivacity and roundness such as passionfruit and lemon meringue.

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