Masterclass: Champagne Krug with Isabelle Bui

This masterclass is open only to current and former sommelier students at Norsk Vinfagskole. If you have not studied with the school, you cannot attend.

Isabelle Bui is Winemaking Development Manager at Krug and a member of the house’s Tasting Committee — the group that tastes every plot every year and decides what becomes a Vintage, what goes into the Édition, and what is set aside. She is coming to the school to present four wines herself.

Grande Cuvée is Krug’s central work: a wine rebuilt from scratch every year, drawing on reserve wines going back decades, so that no single harvest sets the limit on what the blend can be. We taste three Éditions against each other, with a Vintage alongside them. The difference between the two ways of working becomes something you can see in the glass rather than something that has to be explained.

Grande Cuvée 174ème Édition is the first Édition Isabelle helped make.

The wines

Krug Grande Cuvée 174ème Édition
Krug Grande Cuvée 173ème Édition
Krug Grande Cuvée 170ème Édition, from magnum
Krug Vintage 2011

Registration

Twenty-eight seats, first come, first served.

When you register, say in the comment field whether you are a current student. If you are a former student, give the year you sat your exam.

The masterclass is held by Norsk Vinfagskole and is free for the school’s students and alumni.