It’s a bottle we open for the big moments—like ringing in 2022.
The Champagne Krug Grand Cuvee is praised for its richness, depth and vivid notes of brioche, dried fruits, orange zest and hazelnut. It’s a bottle we open for the big moments—or even the small ones if we are living life the right way, but there is much more to a glass of Krug than zest and brioche. The first real Krug Champagne was born of frustration. The founder, Joseph Krug, who started his career in Champagnes in 1834 with the House of Jacquesson, agonized over the fact that the wines of Champagne were often inconsistent (due to the vagaries of climate) and that there had to be a better way to protect against a bad year. After years in the business, he concluded that the best way to ensure a quality Champagne each year was to build a serious reserve of quality grapes from various plots throughout the region. Each separate plot, Joseph determined, must be chosen for its unique and special characteristics. By blending each of these separate plots, like adding colors to fully finish a painting, one can build the perfect wine each and every year no matter what Mother Nature says. In 1843, at the ripe age of 42, he finally put his research into action and officially opened the House of Krug. However, Joseph took things a step further. Not satisfied with simply using separate grapes from different terroirs, he also insisted fermenting each plot separately and storing the finished wines separately as well (this is no small feat when one considers the space implications). This way, when the time came to blend he could call upon the specific notes from each plot to assemble a rich, vivid expression, regardless of the harvest that year.
