Krug Grande Cuvee 171st Edition Champagne 750ml

Each Krug Grande Cuvée carries an edition number, so you can look up exactly what's inside. The 171st Edition, 171ème Édition on the label, is built around the 2015 harvest.

It blends 131 wines from 12 years, 2000 to 2015, with 42% reserve wine. The grapes are 45% Pinot Noir, 37% Chardonnay and 18% Meunier, and every plot is fermented separately in small oak casks. Krug credits reserves from 2008, 2013 and 2014 with tension and Chardonnay from 2000 and 2006 with toastiness. It spends about seven years in the Reims cellars. Julie Cavil is the cellar master.

Krug describes flowers in bloom, ripe and dried fruit, marzipan and gingerbread, then grilled notes, almond paste, quince and lemon.

Next to the 170th Edition, built on 2014, the 171st is the fresher, more lifted blend; for drinking now, choose the 171st.

Krug says to serve it at 9 to 12°C, not too cold, with aged Comté, Jabugo ham, oysters or grilled shrimp.

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