Nice mousse with lots of tiny bubbles. Gold green in color. The nose has a nice toast to it. Slight smoke and red apples. On the palate, this has a nice tart acidity. Some depth. Long finish. This is very food friendly and in fact, while drinks well on its own, is probably better suited to apps or a nice meal. This retails for $45 which is fair.
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Wow! Its vintage Krug, but still, wow! This is still young but it is opening up now and really hitting its stride. It has a couple of decades left or more, depending how you like older Champagne. Light golden in color. A nice mousse with lots of tiny bubbles. This is a big wine. The nose has toast, slight ginger, cherries and a slight hay note. On the palate, this has a racy backbone of acidity. At the same time, a broad palate with great complexity. Some tart fruit on top with some cherry parfait in the mid-palate and underlying it all, great minerality and slight salinity. An i
Opened to celebrate my son's 23rd birthday. Light golden in color, clear and bright. The mousse is thick with lots of tiny bubbles. On the nose, this is mostly mineral driven but there are some green apples and slight toast. On the palate, this veers toward the leaner side but not all the way. Green apple fruit with a nice minerality. Good acid. Long finish. Went great with a shaved mushroom with lemon juice salad.
This ubiquitous Champagne seems to be everywhere and sometimes, that means it can be easy to look past it (for wine geeks anyway). It is quite good. This is actually a special bottling to celebrate their 150th anniversary of their founding in 1869. It is a blend of equal parts Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier (30% to 40%) and the rest Chardonnay. Golden in color with a bit of copper. The nose is nice with toast, apple and slight ginger. On the palate, this has nice full carbonation. Good acidity. Slight tannins. Pears and apples. Long finish. This is drinking well now and should cont
Deep salmon Pink in color. There is a nice mousse with lots of tiny bubbles. The nose has seltzer, and strawberries. Reminiscent of the Faygo Red Pop of my youth. Nice. On the palate, there is a bit of depth and complexity. Dry. Nice acidity. Good finish. Would go with practically any food. This drinks quite well now but should develop some maturity and drink well for a while. Aged Champagnes are not to everyone's taste but I think this should easily last for a decade. delicious and more traditional Rose.
The Krug MV is always a stellar wine but this edition is based on 2011 which was a very difficult vintage. It also includes almost two hundred different wines going back to the 1995 vintage. Forty-two percent of the cuvée is made up of Reserve wines. This wine is stellar. It has 47 % Pinot Noir, 36% Chardonnay and 17% Pinot Meunier. Light pale gold in color. Lots of tiny bubbles. The nose has lemons, brioche and slight smoke. On the palate, those flavors come thru. It takes a bit of time to open though. Good acidity. With air some green apples come out. Lots of energy here but
