Krug Brut Champagne Grande Cuvée Edition 170 NV 375ml

99 points Bettane & Desseauve Guide (2024).

97-98 points Essi Avellan, MW: "(51% Pinot Noir, 28% Chardonnay, 11% Meunier). This Grande Cuvée Edition is a blend of 195 wines from 12 different years spanning from 1998 to 2014. The colour is rich, lemon-gold; the nose already generous, with a complex melange of apricot jam and dried fruits, sweet pastries and baking spices. The oak is notable but neatly in the background and with no oxidative tones; it lends only sweet, spicy tones and charred-wood whiffs. This is the child of a cool year, and the acidity feels accentuated, the overall impression a little lighter than on most vintages. But there is a welcome freshness cutting all that concentration and vinosity, leading to a super-long, driven and mouthwateringly fresh finish. Even if it comes with great potential, the wine is generous, laudable and already approachable now. Krug ID 221037. Krug ID 421061: Showing beautifully subtle and refined, the balance is impeccable with fine creamy caressing qualities. Krug ID 421061. Glorious bottle with beautiful toastiness melanging perfectly with the wine's creamy qualities and oaky undernote. Dosage 6g/l. (Sep 2023)"

97 points Tyson Stelzer (The Champagne Guide): "(tasted in 2023 in France; 2014 base vintage; 45% reserves; 38% chardonnay, 51% pinot noir, 11% meunier; 195 different wines from 12 years back to 1998 from a small proportion of chardonnay from Oger; disgorged autumn 2021; ID 421061). I love the energy, tension and precision of the 2014 base vintage, and the pinpoint detail in which it is captured by Krug is profound. Even at nine years of age, the primary, bright citrus mood of grapefruit, lemon and even lime is foremost, with breathtaking purity and energy. This is set to the most elegantly integrated backdrop that defines the grand complexity that sets Krug apart, holding with lifted purity and enduring potential. I love the tension and poise of this release. It will live very long indeed. (Edition VII; 2024)"

96 points Tom Hewson (Decanter): "This 170th edition is really waking up now, jumping out upon opening with lime syrup, caramelised apple tart and raspberry with a beautiful lift of jasmine and coffee. Clean lines, narrow and ageworthy with impeccable balance and detailed length. Notably un-oaky and energetic in the context of this tasting. Drinking Window: 2023-2050. (4/28/23)"

96 points Antonio Galloni (Vinous): "The NV Grande Cuvée 170ème Édition, (2014 base vintage) is rich, ample and explosive. Wonderfully fresh and vibrant, the 170 offers an exotic mélange of dried orchard fruit, pear, spice and crushed flowers. Chef de Caves Eric Lebel was not especially excited about 2014 when I saw him a few months after the harvest, as yields in Pinot Noir and Meunier were adversely affected. Perhaps for that reason the 170 contains more reserve wines than most editions. Regardless, the Krug team crafted an absolutely brilliant Grande Cuvée. The blend is 51% Pinot Noir, 38% Chardonnay and 11% Meunier, vintages 2014 through 1998. Disgorged: Autumn 2021. Krug ID: 421062. Drink: 2024-2044. (Mar 2024)"

96 points James Suckling: "Wonderful precision and depth right away on the nose, with dried pineapple, light apricot and hints of flint and slate. Medium-bodied palate that’s firm, bright and linear. Vivid,driven acidity adds focus and perfection. Dried lemon and a wonderful, creamy texture with a mineral undertone. Extremely long, almost endless. Sophistication here. Drink or hold. (6/28/22)"

96 points Wine Enthusiast: "The numbering indicates this is the 170th blending of this Champagne. This iteration has a fine poise—it's mature and toasty on the one hand and offers rich fruit on the other. It is a finely balanced wine that is ripe and full in the mouth. Drink this beautiful wine now. Alcohol 12.5%. (Dec 2022)"

96 points Peter Moser (Falstaff): "Light golden yellow in colour with silver reflections and a medium, lively mousse. On the nose, hints of kumquat, delicate blossom honey and yellow stone fruit, with some biscuit notes and a touch of light nougat. The palate is taut and balanced, with fine yellow tropical fruit, and a touch of lemon on the saline-mineral finish. Energetic and persistent, a great food wine. (11/5/2023)"

95+ points & '#25 Top 100 Wines of 2022' Jeb Dunnuck: "From vintages spanning from 1998 to 2014, the NV Champagne Grande Cuvee 170eme Edition is decadent and nuanced, with a rounded perfume of toasted brioche, lemon curd, and honeydew melon. Ripe yellow orchard fruits fill the palate with nectarine, fresh grapefruit pith, and a core of acidity. This is showing wonderfully now, although it still has the tension to go for the next 20 years. Drink 2022-2042 (Nov 2022)."

95 points William Kelley (Wine Advocate): "Krug's NV Grande Cuvée 170ème Édition is based on the 2014 vintage, complemented by some 45% reserve wines dating back to 1998, with the house drawing on, among many others, 2013 for structure and 2012 and 2003 for generosity. Opening in the glass with aromas of pastry cream, dried fruits, pear, warm spices, freshly baked bread and vanilla pod, it's medium to full-bodied, pillowy and fine-boned, with excellent concentration, racy acids and a precise, chiseled profile. But if the latter adjective could be applied to the 2013-base 169ème édition equally felicitously, the 2014-base 170ème is more giving and less tightly wound out of the gates and will offer more demonstrative drinking young. Drink: 2021-2041. (Jun 2022)"

95 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The very soon to be released new '170ème Édition' of Krug Grande Cuvée is a stunning young wine. It is from the base year of 2014 and composed from a cépages of fifty-one percent pinot noir, thirty-eight percent chardonnay and eleven percent pinot meunier. In this vintage, a nearly unprecedented forty-five percent of the blend was made up of reserve wines. The reason so much of the blend this year was made up of reserve wines was the crop of pinot noir in 2014 was not stellar, as it had to contend with the infestation of Suzuki flies that damaged the quality of this grape in particular leading into the harvest of 2014. But, fortunately, there was plenty of pinot noir in the reserve wine library at Maison Krug, so the challenge was able to be overcome beautifully. The '170ème Édition' of Grande Cuvée is strikingly floral this year, offering up a beautiful bouquet of pear, delicious apples, hazelnut, a complex base of soil tones, orange zest, patissière and a gorgeous array of floral scents in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, crisp and beautifully mineral in profile, with a fine core, refined mousse and a very long, complex and perfectly balanced finish. This is a beautiful rendition of this iconic wine. 2022-2065. (Mar/Apr 2022)"

95 points Wine Spectator: "A lovely, mouthwatering Champagne, with a vivid and finely detailed panoply of baked nectarine, lime blossom, ground coffee, mandarin orange peel, candied ginger and salted almond notes set in a lithe, limber frame. Seamlessly knit, with a sense of buoyant vitality, this has a harmonious, elegant frame for the richly expressive flavor range. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Meunier. Disgorged winter 2020 to 2021. Drink now through 2027. (11/30/22)"

95 points La Revue du Vin de France: "This year, we're unveiling the 170th anniversary edition, featuring 195 different wines and twelve vintages from 2014 to 1998. The wine shows finesse and distinction, with controlled power; the palate is complex and the Pinots dominate. It is not, however, a taut, chiseled wine like the 169th Edition was. It seduces with its freshness and relaxed texture. (2023)"