As a Champagne Krug is uniquely distinctive and easily recognised by taste due to the house's esteemed policy of complete barrel fermentation and very extended lees aging; on the nose, Krug is identified by its strongly developed and aged nutty lees influence, a certain oakiness, as well as a combination of disgorgement freshness and oxidative maturity. On the palate, Krug wines commonly display a raciness resulting from suppression of the malolactic fermentation, and a richness both from lees and from barrel fermentation.). Krug is a Champagne without compromise.
Grande Cuvée NV is blended from anywhere between 20 and 30 crus across Champagne, with almost all being rated 100%, or Grand Cru. The reserve wines hail from 6 to 10 vintages (Krug is a multi-vintage cuvee, rather than non-vintage), and not necessarily the most recent vintages, and usually including a fair proportion of declarable vintages which the company insists explains the high quality of their wine. Vitally Krug disgorges its wines no earlier than six years on lees. All of which means that the Krug in your glass is typically 15 years old.