Krug - Grande Cuvee Brut Champagne 171st Edition NV (375ml)
Price: $130.00
Sale Price: $114.00
| Producer | Krug |
| Country | France |
| Region | Champagne |
| Varietal | Champagne Blend |
| Sku | 6662 |
| Size | 375ml |
James Suckling: 99 Points
(NV Krug Champagne Grande Cuvée 171ème Edition Sparkling France) The tightness and tension of this is impressive considering the youngest wine from this is 2015 (hot and dry year) with some wines going back to 2000. Ginger and orange zest. Some creme brulee. It's medium-bodied with apple pie crust and floral character. It's salty and zesty yet at the same time complex and gorgeous. Chamomile and other floral teas highlight everything. Turns rich and flavorful at the finish. Terrific release. Really takes off at the end. Drink or hold.
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
Wine Spectator: 96 Points
A vivid Champagne with chiseled acidity and a fine vivacious mousse creating a buoyant frame for layered flavors of crushed black raspberry grilled nuts pink grapefruit sorbet and coffee liqueur plus fragrant accents of ground ginger and anise graphite and lime blossoms. Long and expressive on the finish crackling with a lingering fleur de sel note. Pinot Noir Chardonnay and Meunier. Disgorged winter 2022 to 2021. Drink now through 2033.
John Gilman: 96 Points
Vinous: 95 Points
The NV Grande Cuvée 171ème Édition based on the 2015 vintage is every bit as impressive as it was the last time I tasted it. Creamy layered and resonant the 171 is seriously impressive. The style is one that favors tension over volume. Lemon peel white flowers and white pepper open first. Hints of marzipan tangerine peel and spice add an exotic flair to this mid-weight understated Grand Cuvée. Floral notes and bright acids perk up the finish. The 171 is wonderfully fresh and vibrant from start to finish. The blend is 45% Pinot Noir 37% Chardonnay and 18% Meunier vintages 2015 through 2000. Krug ID: 122013. Disgorged: Winter: 2021-2022. - By Antonio Galloni on March 2024 The NV Grande Cuvée 171ème Édition (2015 base vintage) is bright and focused in the glass showing notable tension and tons of class. Citrus peel white flowers mint and white pepper all lend remarkable brightness to a Grande Cuvée that is built more on linear cut rather than volume. Krug is always among the first houses to pick. The 171 clearly shows that style. The blend is 45% Pinot Noir 37% Chardonnay and 18% Meunier vintages 2015 through 2000. Disgorged: Winter 2021-2022. Krug ID: 122003 - By Antonio Galloni on October 2023
Decanter: 95 Points
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. (Drink between 2024 - 2038)
Vinous Media: 95 Points
The NV Grande Cuvée 171ème Édition, based on the 2015 vintage, is every bit as impressive as it was the last time I tasted it. Creamy, layered and resonant, the 171 is seriously impressive. The style is one that favors tension over volume. Lemon peel, white flowers and white pepper open first. Hints of marzipan, tangerine peel and spice add an exotic flair to this mid-weight, understated Grand Cuvée. Floral notes and bright acids perk up the finish. The 171 is wonderfully fresh and vibrant from start to finish. The blend is 45% Pinot Noir, 37% Chardonnay and 18% Meunier, vintages 2015 through 2000. Krug ID: 122013. Disgorged: Winter: 2021-2022. (Drink between 2024 - 2044)
Wine Advocate: 94 Points
The NV Grande Cuvée 171ème Edition is a delightful blend of 45% Pinot Noir 37% Chardonnay and 18% Pinot Meunier and boasts an attractive and captivating aroma of dried fruits pastry lemon oil marzipan spring flowers and ginger with hints of almond and vanilla notes that become more pronounced over time. This medium to full-bodied wine is precise and well-structured with a fleshy core of fruit and a sapid incisive finish. Crafted around the 2015 vintage the blend comprises 131 reserve wines from as far back as 2000 (42% of the total blend) and is expected to age beautifully over the next decade. Krug has just released two cuvées: the Grande Cuvée 171st edition an exploration of the large universe of Krug and the 27th edition of Krug Rosé. The Grande Cuvée 171ème Edition is built around the 2015 vintage but ?the Chardonnays and Meuniers showed a little restraint? said cellar master Julie Cavil. So she included the 2008 2013 and 2014 vintages to bring vivacity and tension. Furthermore the cuvée has been enhanced by adding 131 wines from 12 different years the youngest of which is the 2015 of course and the oldest dating back to 2000. The Krug Rosé 27ème Edition is a blend of 57% Pinot Noir 23% Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Meunier. It too was built around the 2015 vintage with 55% of various reserve wines. This is a rosé champagne that is quite distinctive in the Krug world for its flamboyance and vibrancy but it will have to be cellared for a few years before it can be fully appreciated.
Jancis Robinson: 18 Points
Based on the 2015 vintage a blend of 134 base wines back to 2000. (Note that a new Krug app will read the famous Krug ID codes immediately.) Very lively crisp nose. Tense and surprisingly vibrant for such a hot growing season ? positively explosive in terms of its impact on the nose and palate. Lots of acidity and impressively long. A very good Krug Grande Cuvée. (Drink between 2023 - 2035)
