KRUG Grand Cuvee 171st Edition Brut NV Bottle

Description

Krug NV Grande Cuvée 170ème Édition is an exceptional Champagne that highlights remarkable balance and complexity, earning 97 points from Wine Enthusiast. Roger Voss commends its dry essence and fine-textured fruit, noting its impressive quality and promising aging potential. The Wine Advocate awards it 95 points, describing its foundation based on the 2014 vintage, incorporating 45% reserve wines from as far back as 1998. It displays rich aromas of pastry cream, dried fruits, and warm spices, presenting a fine-boned texture and excellent concentration. Decanter rates it 96 points, highlighting vibrant notes of lime syrup, caramelised apple tart, and raspberry, with a remarkable balance and length. This luxurious edition is ideal for immediate enjoyment or further aging.

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WINE ENTHUSIAST 97 points
Deliciously balanced, this Champagne is impressive. The iconic wine is in its 171st blend, meaning it combines vintages for the best result for each bottling, not a specific vintage. The 171st essence is dry, while also having fine textured fruit. This is a magnificent wine and worth aging for another year. — Roger Voss

THE WINE ADVOCATE 95 points
:Drink Date 2021 - 2041
Krug's NV Grande Cuvée 170ème Édition is based on the 2014 vintage, complemented by some 45% reserve wines dating back to 1998, with the house drawing on, among many others, 2013 for structure and 2012 and 2003 for generosity. Opening in the glass with aromas of pastry cream, dried fruits, pear, warm spices, freshly baked bread and vanilla pod, it's medium to full-bodied, pillowy and fine-boned, with excellent concentration, racy acids and a precise, chiseled profile. But if the latter adjective could be applied to the 2013-base 169ème édition equally felicitously, the 2014-base 170ème is more giving and less tightly wound out of the gates and will offer more demonstrative drinking young. - (William Kelley)

DECANTER 96 points
Fermented in small barrels averaging 20 years of age and moved into stainless steel after three months. This edition is really waking up now, jumping with lime syrup, caramelised apple tart and raspberry with a beautiful lift of jasmine and coffee. Clean lines, narrow and ageworthy, impeccably balanced with detailed length. Notably unoaky and energetic in the context of this tasting. - Tom Hewson

DECANTER 95 points
Tasted by: Tom Hewson (at London, 06 Feb 2024)
Drinking Window: 2024 - 2038
Two years on from its disgorgement, this 2015-based edition has settled beautifully, showing all the sunniness of the base year with its mandarin and apricot plushness, surprisingly smooth and silky up front before settling into its broad, inviting range of praline, cappuccino and bitter almond aromatics and subtle fruit skin chewiness. It's a punchy, fulsome edition thanks to the base year's intensity, but it has been beautifully tamed into a characteristically suave and multilayered Grande Cuvée. A blend of 131 wines, with reserves back to the year 2000.