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Rudy has not been long out of jail. I am impressed!I had understood there was to be no vintage 08?
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Olivier Krug has always been arrogant. I well remember him getting hot under the collar and very dismissive with me for having the temerity to suggest, at a small J & B lunch, that Krug MV have the disgorgement date printed on the back label.Yes, that has been the official line since day dot, expect stratospheric hype pricing.
Apart from making us Champagne “experts” bods look unbelievably stupid, it does feel just a tiny bit egotistical and arrogant.
Olivier Krug has always been arrogant. I well remember him getting hot under the collar and very dismissive with me for having the temerity to suggest, at a small J & B lunch, that Krug MV have the disgorgement date printed on the back label.
@Raymond Tilney where is the photo from? Can we have a TN ?
Giving them benefit of the doubt, could that have been the case with the 2008?
Still isn’t it useful to know so one can easily guess at the degree of evolution in any given bottle Steven or are you saying because it’s MV there’s none post bottling?"MV" acronym says it all I think.
Still isn’t it useful to know so one can easily guess at the degree of evolution in any given bottle Steven or are you saying because it’s MV there’s none post bottling?
I can put hand on heart and say I've never found that having spent quite a lot of time with him over the years. But his character is not what this is about I think, as he will not make decisions such as the release of the 2008, so I will say no more.Olivier Krug has always been arrogant
I'm lucky enough to have been to Krug a few times and tasted many vintages of the wines, but on my 2011 visit in the line-up of vintage from 2000 back to 1976 that they poured, there was one which we were sworn to secrecy about and not allowed to report on, because they could not decide whether to release it or not. Damnably I cannot find my original notes and cannot remember what the year was, but basically Eric Lebel said they could not decide if it was too atypical to be released, or too interesting not to released. I am sure it was a 90s vintage.
Giving them benefit of the doubt, could that have been the case with the 2008?
CdM 1999 they made, bottled, but didn't release, could be that? They said that they blended it back into other wines, I don't know how that works on a technical level
CdM 1999 they made, bottled, but didn't release, could be that? They said that they blended it back into other wines, I don't know how that works on a technical level
CdM 1999 they made, bottled, but didn't release, could be that? They said that they blended it back into other wines, I don't know how that works on a technical level
I am just about to post, at 2019 Krug tasting (where Collection 1988 was nearly oxidised) the guy was bragging about how 2012 was not interesting enough and they decided not to go for vintage (see, it's a different reason they gave)....They've also said there will be no 2012, the vintage wasn't large enough and they put it all into MV because that's the most important thing at the house.
So 2012 coming out next then yeah?
They did produce a 1999 Clos du Mesnil but decided not to release it as it wasn't up to par. Having tasted it at Krug, I agree! One of those tastings where everyone looks at their feet....It might well be Tom, because we had a vertical of CdM at the same tasting too, so that would make perfect sense.
They did produce a 1999 Clos du Mesnil but decided not to release it as it wasn't up to par. Having tasted it at Krug, I agree! One of those tastings where everyone looks at their feet....