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- Disgorgement date
- 03/2024
- Appellation
- Champagne
- Dosage
- Brut
- Cuvée
- Assemblage
- Grapes
- Pinot Noir 44%, Chardonnay 34%, Meunier 22%
- Winery Area
- Multi-Area
- Category Winery
- Maisons
- Gift ideas
- Premium Gift Box
- Size
- Bottle 0,75 L
- Alcohol
- 12,5% Vol.
- Product code
- KRG173B4
Champagne Krug
Grande Cuvée 173ème Édition
The Champagne Grande Cuvée by Maison Krug embodies a rare philosophy, built on the idea that the highest expression of Champagne is born from time and patience, beyond the very concept of Vintage. The vision imagined by Joseph Krug in the nineteenth century takes shape in a blend capable of surpassing the limits of a single year, drawing on a vast library of wines preserved season after season to deliver an aromatic fullness and depth otherwise impossible to achieve.
This 173ème Édition comes from the 2017 harvest, one of the most challenging in the recent history of Champagne, marked by a severe spring frost and a warm, humid late summer that encouraged botrytis, putting the vignerons to the test in a context where only Chardonnay managed in part to shine. The blend brings together 150 wines from thirteen different vintages, reaching back from 2017 to 2001, with vin de réserve making up 31% of the total, under the guidance of Julie Cavil, the Maison's chef de cave since 2020 and the first woman to hold this role, who faced the year with a contemporary vision, lending it a taut and vibrant style. Vinification and fermentation take place plot by plot in small oak casks, which through a slow micro-oxygenation build complexity and breadth, before more than seven years of ageing on the lees.
On the palate, Grande Cuvée 173ème Édition opens onto a surprising array in which notes of blueberry, bitter orange and pink grapefruit interweave with floral hints of rose and jasmine, enriched by touches of sugared almond, vanilla and almond. The palate moves along a dual trajectory between dark fruit and citrus, supported by a marked acidity that lends momentum and offsets the roundness of the sweeter notes, leading to a long and shifting finish of spice and minty freshness that reveals a slight fragility at the mid-palate, the sign of a vintage not entirely tamed yet of undeniable finesse and harmony. KRUG ID 124004
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