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Krug "Grande Cuvée" 169ème Édition Brut Champagne

Krug "Grande Cuvée" 169ème Édition Brut Champagne

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Decanter

Review Date: 04/2022

A sweet iodic and tense nose draws you in. Then out tumbles a deep current of tindery burnished fruit on the palate, ringing the gums. A little bitter and salty; very greengage. Pulsing and linear; youthfully austere even if the corners are cleverly silky. Stately depth and plenty of weight. Deceptively tight, this has all the structure and energy of fine wine; all its glory will reveal slowly over the next few years. 2013 increasingly reveals itself to me as a very good Champagne year and the influence is clear in this wine. Main harvest: 2013. 40% reserves. Aged for almost seven years on lees. Disgorged: Early 2021. (TH)

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Jeb Dunnuck

Review Date: 11/2021
Based largely on the 2013 vintage, the NV Krug Champagne Grande Cuvée 169eme Edition is another brilliant example of this Champagne that does everything right. Still young and tight, it reveals a vibrant bouquet of stone fruits, toasted bread, chalky minerality, and subtle nutty nuances. Quite fat and concentrated on the palate, this full-bodied beauty has a fine, silky mousse, wonderful balance, and a great, focused, chiseled finish. It's going to benefit from 2-3 years of bottle age and drink brilliantly for 20+ years or more. This is gorgeous and certainly in the same league as the 168eme Edition.

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James Suckling

Review Date: 07/2022
Still vibrant and focused, with plenty of dried apple, apricot, dried lemon, lime zest, pie crust, toast and flint. Powerful and structured. Tightly wound and deep. 43% pinot noir, 35% chardonnay and 22% pinot meunier, from 2013 to older vintages. 40% reserve wine. Needs time to come together completely. Drink or hold.

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Wine Advocate

Review Date: 09/2021
Based on the 2013 vintage and complemented by some 40% reserve wines dating back to 2000, Krug's newly released NV Grande Cuvée 169ème Édition is showing very nicely, unfurling in the glass with notes of citrus oil, buttered toast, dried apricot, warm biscuits and marmalade. Medium to full-bodied, deep and incisive, it's a tauter, more chiseled rendition of Grande Cuvée by comparison with the richer, more textural and more demonstrative 168ème Édition (based on the 2012 vintage) that preceded it; but its bright spine of acidity is nicely cloaked in fruit. Concluding with a long and sapid finish, this is a very classically balanced Champagne that will reward bottle age. (WK) 96+
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Gary Westby
K&L Buyer
Review Date: 11/2021
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Krug Grandé Cuvée might be the best value in truly fine wine in the world. This current edition, the 169th, has its youngest elements from 2013 and has been aged on the lees for a full seven years before being sold. With reserves spanning decades going into this blend, it has both the profound depth that one can only achieve with age and the freshness of one of the rare modern high acid vintages. If you are looking for everything; creamy texture, brioche generosity as well as citric zip, you have found it. I like this wine best paired with just one other person- I want my half of the bottle, as each glass changes and evolves! If you can keep it, look out, it will turn into simply one of the best wines in the world after 10 or so years in your good cellar.

Product Details

Origin: Champagne, France

Type/Varietal: Other White Wines

Alcohol Content: 12%

SKU: #1552681