Grande Cuvee 164eme Edition
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Aged Parmesan cheese, roasted turbot with butter sauce, pan-seared veal chops
✨ Technical Specifications
The 164th Edition of Krug Grande Cuvee was created around the harvest of 2008, a remarkably cool and classic vintage in Champagne often referred to as miraculous. To craft this edition, the House of Krug blended 127 wines from 11 different years, spanning from 1990 to 2008. This meticulous process of recreation, envisioned by founder Joseph Krug in 1843, aims to deliver the most generous expression of Champagne regardless of annual climate variations. Every single plot's wine is fermented individually in small, seasoned oak casks, allowing for an astonishing level of precision. The reserve wines, which make up 38% of this blend, lend an incomparable depth, complexity, and maturity, resulting in a Champagne of extraordinary tension, elegance, and longevity.
🍾 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 48%, Chardonnay 35%, Meunier 17%
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
12.5%