Grande Cuvee 158eme Edition
⏳ Drinking Window
2018 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared sea scallops with truffle butter, slow-roasted milk-fed veal, and aged Comté cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Krug Grande Cuvée 158ème Édition represents the 158th recreation of founder Joseph Krug's vision: to craft the most generous and expressive Champagne possible every single year, transcending the limitations of vintage variations. This historic edition is masterfully built around the legendary 2002 harvest, a year celebrated across Champagne for its luminous fruit and structural power. It is a spectacular blend of 120 wines from 10 different vintages, with the oldest reserve wine dating back to 1990 and the youngest from 2002. Composed of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Pinot Meunier, each individual parcel was vinified in small, seasoned oak casks to preserve its unique terroir signature. After resting for over six years in Krug's dark, chalk cellars, this edition emerged as a masterpiece of complexity, balancing fresh citrus, dried fruits, toasted brioche, and a profound, mineral-driven finish.
🍾 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