Krug Champagne

Junior Toff’s favourite Champagne. Krug is an iconic fizz that was once the tipple of first class lounges and airlines. In recent years this has opened up to ‘celebrity’ clubs, city bankers and internet entreprenurs.

Total production of Krug Champagne is kept top secret but toff ’sources estimate it to be around a million bottles of rather delectable Krug each year.

So squire, let’s run doen the top Krug Champagne varieties.

Krug Grande Cuvée

Krug Grande Cuvée is the timelessly stylish signature of the Krug house, a breathtaking champagne that effortlessly balances richness and freshness, power and finesse. Out of contrast, harmony – a sensational taste experience that you simply must experience.

Taste Test

Krug Grande is a gleaming gold colour, an extravagantly expansive bouquet, an almost creamy texture. Then it hits, an explosion of most delicate flavours that gets the toffs rather excited, at once mellow and mature, crisp and clean. The delicate blossming of soft spices, drief rich fruit and candied toasted fruit.

Composition

Krug Grande Cuvée is the supreme demonstration of the Krug art of blending. No recipe can define its intricate harmony, so every year the Krug family works from taste and memory alone to recreate this most complex of champagnes. Typically, Krug Grande Cuvée is blended from as many as 50 superior wines from three grape varieties, 20 to 25 growths, and six to ten different years. Krug Grand Cuvee is quite simpy the King of Krugs.

Toff Rating : 92/100

Toff Tip : Perfect with line caught fish or white organic meats.

Buy From : Majestic Wine - Oddbins - Waitrose Wine

Typical Price : £110

Typical Case : £1,288

Krug 1995

Krug Rosé

Krug Rosé is pure indulgence – a sensual, extravagant champagne that seamlessly and effortlessly fuses the intensity and elegance of the Krug style with an absolute excitement all of its own.

Taste Test

Krug Rosé’s pale pink, gold colour and exquisitely fragrant bouquet are the prelude to an abundance of fresh, exotic flavours that leave the taste buds reaching out for more. Here at toff HQ always finish off with a sweet young strawberry, most marvelous!

Toff Rating: 95/100

Buy From: Majestic Wine - Oddbins - Waitrose Wine