Krug - Grande Cuvee Brut Champagne 170th Edition NV (750ml)
Price: $245.00
#25 Jeb Dunnuck Top 100 of 2022
| Producer | Krug |
| Country | France |
| Region | Champagne |
| Varietal | Champagne Blend |
| Sku | 5406 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 96 Points
Wonderful precision and depth right away on the nose with dried pineapple light apricot and hints of flint and slate. Medium-bodied palate that?s firm bright and linear. Vividdriven acidity adds focus and perfection. Dried lemon and a wonderful creamy texture with a mineral undertone. Extremely long almost endless. Sophistication here. Drink or hold.
jdWine Enthusiast: 96 Points
The numbering indicates this is the 170th blending of this Champagne. This iteration has a fine poise?it?s mature and toasty on the one hand and offers rich fruit on the other. It is a finely balanced wine that is ripe and full in the mouth. Drink this beautiful wine now. Moët Hennessy USA. ?R.V.
Wine Spectator: 95 Points
A lovely mouthwatering Champagne with a vivid and finely detailed panoply of baked nectarine lime blossom ground coffee mandarin orange peel candied ginger and salted almond notes set in a lithe limber frame. Seamlessly knit with a sense of buoyant vitality this has a harmonious elegant frame for the richly expressive flavor range. Pinot Noir Chardonnay and Meunier. Disgorged winter 2020 to 2021. Drink now through 2027.?A.N.
Jeb Dunnuck: 95 Points
From vintages spanning from 1998 to 2014, the NV Champagne Grande Cuvee 170eme Edition is decadent and nuanced, with a rounded perfume of toasted brioche, lemon curd, and honeydew melon. Ripe yellow orchard fruits fill the palate with nectarine, fresh grapefruit pith, and a core of acidity. This is showing wonderfully now, although it still has the tension to go for the next 20 years.
jdWine Advocate: 95 Points
Krug's NV Grande Cuvée 170ème Édition is based on the 2014 vintage complemented by some 45% reserve wines dating back to 1998 with the house drawing on among many others 2013 for structure and 2012 and 2003 for generosity. Opening in the glass with aromas of pastry cream dried fruits pear warm spices freshly baked bread and vanilla pod it's medium to full-bodied pillowy and fine-boned with excellent concentration racy acids and a precise chiseled profile. But if the latter adjective could be applied to the 2013-base 169ème édition equally felicitously the 2014-base 170ème is more giving and less tightly wound out of the gates and will offer more demonstrative drinking young. Chef de Caves Julie Cavil and I sat down to taste the newly released 2008 Clos du Mesnil?alongside the 2008 vintage and 2008-base Grande Cuvée 164ème Édition?at the house's cellars in Reims last week. At the same time Krug's 2021-base Grande Cuvée the future 177ème Édition was in tirage a reminder of how slowly time passes in Champagne. And meanwhile work is well underway in the house's new state-of-the-art winery in Ambonnay which is rapidly taking shape.
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