Grande Cuvee 156eme Edition
⏳ Drinking Window
2017 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared turbot in a rich butter sauce, slow-roasted pheasant with wild chanterelles, or aged Comté cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
The House of Krug was established in 1843 with a singular, revolutionary vision by Joseph Krug: to create the most generous expression of Champagne every single year, regardless of annual climate variations. The Grande Cuvée 156ème Édition is a historic recreation of this dream, crafted around the harvest of the year 2000. To achieve the signature Krug complexity, the chef de cave meticulously blended 135 individual wines from 11 different vintages, spanning from the fresh base of 2000 back to mature reserve wines from 1988. Composed of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Pinot Meunier, every component was fermented in traditional seasoned oak casks to develop unparalleled texture and micro-oxygenation. After more than six years of aging on its lees in the cool chalk cellars of Reims, this edition emerged as a masterpiece of depth, tension, and multi-layered complexity, showcasing the legendary longevity of the Krug style.
🍾 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