Peter Maude Fine Wines
Champagne Krug, Grande Cuvée 171ème édition NV
$498
7% Chardonnay/ 18% Pinot Meunier/ 45% Pinot Noir / Pinot Nero
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. Drinking Window: 2024 - 2038. 95, Tom Hewson, Decanter.