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Champagne Krug Grande Cuvee
Champagne Krug Grande Cuvee
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Champagne Krug Grande Cuvee


Non-Vintage

from Champagne, France

ratings pedigree (past vintages):
Wine Spectator Wine Spectator 95 point ratingWine Spectator Wine Spectator 95 point rating
International Wine Cellar International Wine Cellar 95 point ratingInternational Wine Cellar International Wine Cellar 95 point rating
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Item No. 6630 
winemaker's notes:

"Krug Grande Cuvée is as a symphony, a composition where the instruments all play together, complementing each other in total harmony."
-Henri Krug.

The flagship of the house, Grande Cuvée is imposing in character from the first moment in the glass. The "birth" of Krug Grande Cuvée, through its first fermentation exclusively in small oak casks, ensures the unique personality and dimension that is the Krug Style. The composition of the "cuvée" is a stunning mosaic of flavors where the three champagne grapes, 20-25 growths and 6-10 different years, combine to give Krug Grande Cuvée its complexity, elegance and consistency year after year, blend after blend.

To maintain this consistency, Krug reserves a large selection of unblended still wines from previous vintages blending them with the youngest crop to create a fully balanced taste. These "reserve" wines may represent between a third and a half of the cuvée.

The bouquet is wonderfully creamy, leading to magical combination of weight and balance on the palate. The long, lingering finish is both nutty and toasty, ending with a final flourish of freshness, leaving one longing for more.

alcohol by volume: 12.0%
critical acclaim:

"I freely concede that it’s impossible there could have been any change in winemaking that would have filtered through into the Krug Grande Cuvée after Krug was acquired by LVMH, but the wines seemed fresher (and better). I hasten to add the wine is as imperiously complex, rich and mouthfilling as ever, a blend of more than 100 parcels of pinot noir, chardonnay and pinot meunier spanning eight to 10 vintages that spends six years on lees prior to disgorgement. It has a fascinating squeaky acidity that is a chord providing the ultimate harmony and balance of a truly superb wine."

97 Points

Australian Wine Companion

"Like a gymnast, this partners power with grace. Set on the finely detailed texture, flavors of fig paste, crystallized honey, toasted brioche, coconut and kumquat wrap around well-honed acidity, with an aromatic core of grated ginger, cumin and ground coffee. Ends with a long, long, smoky finish. Drink now through 2025. "

95 Points

Wine Spectator

"I’ve always loved the bold, oxidative, exotically spiced style of Krug’s "multi-vintage" entry level superstar. The nose alone is worth savouring with its mouth-wateringly fresh baked apple pie and marzipan scents. The palate is rich, full-flavoured and very crisp with a wonderful combination of brioche, stone fruit and mineral flavours providing layers of complexity. Very well balanced and ready to drink though with enough concentration to cellar for another decade or so. Very long finish. Tasted October 2008."

94 Points

The Wine Advocate

"Vibrant and beautifully fresh, this wine evolves in the glass as it yields layers of toast, lime, stone and honey-like the vibrating scent of the hive. The multivintage blend creates multidimensional complexity, with the broad richness of older reserves and the breezier, tart red apple lift of younger wines. Long-time Krugistes may find this wine a little less intense, a little less "symphonic," as Henri Krug has described the blend. But it is no less beautiful, and equally hard to resist."

94 Points

Wine & Spirits

"Light, bright gold with a strong bead. Highly expressive bouquet of burnt orange, lemon pith, pear, floral honey and smoky lees. Mineral-laced orchard fruit and citrus flavors are complemented by notes of candied ginger and marzipan, with the smoky leesiness repeating. The minerality adds snap to the long, spicy, gently smoky finish. I really like this Champagne's blend of vivacity and power and would bet on it rewarding at least another six to ten years of cellaring."

93 Points

International Wine Cellar

"Non-vintaged though it may be, this wine has in the past shown as one of the older cuvees in our tastings, and so again does it do so here. This time, as one expects of Krug, the aged, toasty, minerally character is accompanied by bright, acid-braced, still evident fruit. One might quibble about a bit of chalkiness in the finish. "

92 Points

Connoisseurs' Guide

user reviews:
The top 3 most liked reviews for this wine.
C-Bass - Shawnee Mission, KS (read all my reviews)
rating (11/19/2011):
Gave this 3 out of 5 now, but gets much better over time. Drank an older (red) label Krug NV couple months ago, and the difference is mind-blowing. Only worth the money if you cellar it for 3-5 years, or just buy the vintage 1998.
rating (9/29/2010):

Fresh, subtle citrus & fruit nose w/ fresh grape, citrus & bread dough flavor. Marvelous, lingering taste that is full & sweet, but not too sweet, on the lips. A tiny pepper & ginger aftertaste teases you for minutes afterwards. You will read many glowing reviews of this wine but none say it better than the one that states "...what God gives his angels when they have been especially good." Awesome!
A Customer - near dollywood
the elegance in this full bodied masculine flavor brings out the grapes i would recommend this beautifully packaged bottle
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