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Tasting notes
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Krug, founded in Reims in 1843, is the house that refused to accept vintage variation as a limit.
Krug blends up to ten vintages into one glass — champagne built for the table, not just the toast.
Joseph Krug spent his life arguing that a weak harvest is no excuse for a weak champagne. Twelve editions of Grand Cuvée tasted side by side, to see whether the house still wins that argument.
The earliest harvest on record is underway in Champagne. Today Krug is picking their most iconic vineyard — and the question everyone is asking is whether 2026 will be the new 1996 or 1976.
Even in a warm vintage, Krug shows its style, its nerve, its minerality and its own stamp.
Mature nose of butter and spice over chalk, dried flowers, yellow stone fruit and sweet spices.
Ripe fruit, light spice and citrus on the nose, with pastry and yeast sitting behind it.
Chalky nose with cool fruit and green, pale citrus. The palate brings ripe bergamot, buttery pastry and spice, giving more breadth than the nose suggests.
Rich nose of cool fruit, unripe apple, citrus and lime over chalk.
Balanced nose where the notes of maturity are already woven into the fruit and minerality.
Candied citrus on the nose, with ripe fruit leaning towards yellow plum and lemon curd.
Reserved nose of cool chalk, white fruit and spice from the oak.
Clear notes of maturity here: tonka bean, lightly roasted coffee and yellow fruit.
Yellow fruit, mushroom, baked apple, floral notes, vanilla and tonka on the nose.
Taut, chalky nose with cool fruit, floral notes and yellow stone fruit, then leather and tonka towards the end.
Floral, perfumed attack with a layered fruit profile. Light maturity notes playing several strings at once: tonka, vanilla, pastry, spice and leather.
Reserved nose, with fruit and chalk only hinted at. The palate gives far more: creamy and complex, developing towards mushroom and spice.
A complex nose showing candied citrus, ripe orange, light notes of candied ginger, ripe yellow apples, hints of toasted sourdough bread, lightly roasted coffee and chalky minerality.
Complex from the very first sniff. The nose opens with coffee, tonka bean and elegant, finely integrated oak.
A beautiful and complex nose with rich fruit character — ripe citrus, yellow apples and subtle oak notes sitting elegantly in the background.
A Clos du Mesnil that is both concentrated and nuanced, showing rich white fruit, jasmine, herbs, chalk, citrus, grapefruit zest and white pepper.
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