Grande Cuvee 169eme Edition
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2038
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Aged hard cheeses like Parmigiano-Reggiano, roasted poultry with wild mushrooms, and delicate seafood dishes such as pan-seared scallops.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Krug Grande Cuvee 169eme Edition represents the 169th annual recreation of founder Joseph Krug's vision: to craft the most generous expression of Champagne every year, transcending the limitations of a single vintage. This specific edition is built around the harvest of 2013, a cool and late-ripening growing season that yielded grapes of remarkable structure and freshness. To achieve its signature complexity, the house blended 146 reserve wines from 11 different years, spanning from the vibrant 2013 vintage back to the rich 2000 vintage. Composed of 43% Pinot Noir, 35% Chardonnay, and 22% Meunier, the base wines were individually fermented in small oak casks to foster micro-oxygenation and structural depth. Following a meticulous blending process, the bottles rested in Krug's chalk cellars in Reims for over seven years, resulting in a Champagne of extraordinary tension, boasting notes of citrus, toasted brioche, hazelnut, and gingerbread.
🍾 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