Clos d'Ambonnay Rose
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted wild game such as pheasant or venison, dishes featuring freshly shaved black truffles, and premium cured meats like aged Jamon Iberico de Bellota.
✨ Technical Specifications
The legendary Clos d'Ambonnay represents the absolute pinnacle of single-vineyard Champagne, sourced from a tiny, walled 0.68-hectare plot in the heart of the Grand Cru village of Ambonnay. Purchased by the Krug family in 1984, this exceptional terroir is planted entirely with Pinot Noir. Though technically vinified as a Blanc de Noirs, the wine's immense concentration, traditional fermentation in small oak casks, and extended cellar aging imbue it with a majestic, deep golden-copper hue and a remarkably vinous, robust character that flirts with the boundaries of a still red Burgundy. It is a rare masterpiece of power, elegance, and precise terroir expression, produced only in the most exceptional vintages.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1843 by Joseph Krug in Reims, the House of Krug is one of the most revered and uncompromising prestige Champagne producers in the world. Driven by its founder's pioneering philosophy to craft the absolute fullest expression of Champagne each year regardless of climatic variations, the house treats each vineyard plot as an individual element in its masterful blending process. Krug vinifies its base wines in traditional small oak barrels and relies on an extensive library of reserve wines spanning more than a dozen distinct vintages. The resulting portfolio is legendary for its richness, complexity, and extraordinary aging potential, highlighted by the flagship Krug Grande Cuvée, prestigious vintage bottlings, and rare single-vineyard masterpieces such as Clos du Mesnil and Clos d'Ambonnay.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier