Krug Champagne Blend Champagne Brut 1998

An ornate and powerful vintage for the cellars of krugistes, this is breathtaking Champagne. It is as layered and complex as a grand cru Burgundy, though more searing in its adolescent acidity, leaving a tooth buzz in its wake. With air, the layers of the wine begin to show in flavors of marzipan, fresh cream and an underlying essence of limestone. It’s severe on the surface, kinder underneath. Although complete and needing five to ten years of bottle age to build into its full grandeur.

Mature and powerful, this vintage of Krug is layered with autolytic flavors, fresher peach notes, ginger and lime. It's a classical style, a grand wine that gives more than most 1998s its density and potent length of flavor implying further development ahead.

Displays precision focus and detail, framed by well-honed acidity and offering fine, pointillist-like texture. Rich, with layer upon layer of flavor, showing fruit and floral notes of dried apricot and pineapple, chamomile and crystallized honey and savory notes of ground coffee, roast almond, dried herbs and oyster shell. Ends with a long, long, mouthwatering finish. Drink now through 2028.

Mature and powerful, this vintage of Krug is layered with autolytic flavors, fresher peach notes, ginger and lime. It’s a classical style, a grand wine that gives more than most 1998s its density and potent length of flavor implying further development ahead.

An ornate and powerful vintage for the cellars of krugistes, this is breathtaking Champagne. It is as layered and complex as a grand cru Burgundy, though more searing in its adolescent acidity, leaving a tooth buzz in its wake. With air, the layers of the wine begin to show in flavors of marzipan, fresh cream and an underlying essence of limestone. It's severe on the surface, kinder underneath. Although complete and needing five to ten years of bottle age to build into its full grandeur.

The 1998 Vintage is extremely primary at this stage. Today the wine remains mostly about pure, unadulterated expression of fruit, but the Krug house style is nevertheless present. This powerful Champagne needs time in the cellar to develop its full range of aromas and flavors, but it is impressive and should age quite well. The 1998 is only the third (and last) vintage Krug declared in the 1990s. Anticipated maturity: 2012andndash;2028.

Mature and powerful, this vintage of Krug is layered with autolytic flavors, fresher peach notes, ginger and lime. Itandrsquo;s a classical style, a grand wine that gives more than most 1998s its density and potent length of flavor implying further development ahead.