Grande Cuvee 172eme Edition
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2034
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared sea scallops, roasted turbot with butter sauce, or aged Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Krug Grande Cuvee 172eme Edition is a testament to the visionary dream of Joseph Krug, who in 1843 set out to craft the most generous expression of Champagne every year, regardless of climatic variations. This specific edition is structured around the harvest of 2016, a year marked by extreme weather contrasts from spring frosts to a scorching late summer. To achieve the signature Krug complexity, 146 individual wines from 11 different years were meticulously blended, with the oldest reserve wine dating back to 1998 and the youngest from 2016. Composed of 44% Pinot Noir, 36% Chardonnay, and 20% Meunier, the base wines were fermented in traditional small oak casks before undergoing over seven years of patient maturation in the house's historic chalk cellars. This painstaking process yields a Champagne of extraordinary tension, depth, and aromatic richness, defined by notes of toasted brioche, citrus blossom, gingerbread, and hazelnut.
🍾 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