The 2000 vintage of Krug is a young wine that still needs some time in the cellar to start to blossom, but all of the constituent components are in place for a great wine with a bit more bottle age. The cépages of the...
The 2000 vintage of Krug is a young wine that still needs some time in the cellar to start to blossom, but all of the constituent components are in place for a great wine with a bit more bottle age. The cépages of the 2000 Krug is forty-three percent chardonnay, forty-two percent pinot noir and fifteen percent pinot meunier. The very youthful nose wafts from the glass in a blend of apple, white peach, a touch of caraway seed, lovely soil tones, a bit of smokiness and a topnote of salinity. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and rock solid at the core, with broad shoulders, great focus and balance, very elegant mousse, and great backend mineral drive on the very, very long and seamless finish. This is a young and stunning wine that is currently still a bit bound up in its structural elements and in need of a bit more bottle age to start to blossom, but it will be superb in the fullness of time. (Drink between 2020-2055)