Sommelier Profile
Krug Grande Cuvée
Champagne, France
Rich yet precise, with golden apple, citrus peel, toasted brioche, hazelnut, honey, and chalky minerality. The mousse is creamy and the finish is long, savory, and layered.
Champagne, France
Krug Grande Cuvée is built as a multi-vintage Champagne rather than a simple non-vintage release. Fruit and reserve wines from many villages are blended to create breadth, depth, and the house's famously layered style.
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Pinot Meunier
Pinot Noir supplies structure and red-fruit depth, Chardonnay adds citrus, chalk, and drive, and Pinot Meunier rounds the wine with orchard fruit and spice.
Champagne's chalk and limestone soils shape the wine's freshness and mineral line. Extensive reserve-wine blending, traditional-method bottle fermentation, and long lees aging create pastry, nut, and textural complexity.
The nose is expansive, with brioche, hazelnut, candied citrus, golden apple, honey, chalk, and subtle spice unfolding with air.
Grande Cuvée is Krug's flagship expression and is prized for its complexity across many reserve-wine components and harvest years.