Vintage Brut
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Typically best enjoyed 10 to 30+ years from the vintage release, with exceptional bottles aging gracefully for decades.
🍽️ wine.food_pairings
Roasted turbot with butter sauce, aged Parmigiano-Reggiano, roasted poultry with black truffles
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Krug Vintage is not merely a selection of the best wines of a particular year, but rather the expression of that year's unique character as interpreted by the House of Krug. This concept dates back to the founder, Joseph Krug, who wrote in his personal cherry-red notebook in 1848 that the house should craft two Champagnes of equal quality: Champagne No. 1 (the multi-vintage Grande Cuvée) and Champagne No. 2 (the Vintage, representing the story of a single exceptional year). Fermented in small, seasoned oak casks and aged for at least a decade in the deep chalk cellars of Reims, each vintage release is a masterclass in complexity, structure, and tension, reflecting the climate and spirit of its specific growing season.
🍾 wine.about_producer
Founded in Reims in 1843 by Joseph Krug, the House of Krug has established itself as one of Champagne's most legendary and uncompromising names. Operating from its historic cellars at 5 Rue Coquebert, the house is celebrated for its traditional production methods, notably fermenting all its base wines in small oak casks and maintaining an unparalleled library of reserve wines to achieve extraordinary complexity. This meticulous approach yields deeply structured, age-worthy sparkling wines, ranging from the iconic multi-vintage Grande Cuvée to rare, single-vineyard masterpieces like Clos d'Ambonnay, a highly coveted Blanc de Noirs sourced from a tiny walled plot in the heart of Ambonnay.