Krug, Grande Cuvée, Edition, 173rd

Name: Krug, Grande Cuvée, Edition
Brand: Krug

Available Vintages

justerini & brooks tasting note

Lemon pie and golden sultana aromas combine with the cut of smoky oak, toast and tight golden berries. An exceptionally elegant Grand Cuvee 167, based on the 2011 vintage and propped up with 42% reserve wines dating back to the ‘90s. Wonderfully pure flavours dance across the palate, delicate white currant, chalk, bitter lemon & grapefruit notes energised by a lovely pliant acidity and remarkable detail of flavour. Lissom, high toned and gossamer textured – a Grand Cuvee for the Spring (if it ever arrives)…

critic reviews

94/100William Kelley,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

A complex bouquet of iodine, mandarin, warm biscuits, dried flowers, citrus oil and anise introduces the NV Grande Cuvee 163eme Edition, a wine that's built around the 2007 vintage and is beginning to display some very attractive evolution. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, layered and concentrated, with a ripe but racy spine of acidity, chalky structure and a long, penetrating finish.

DRINKING WINDOW 2018 - 2035

date of review 04/2019