1969 Krug Champagne Vintage Brut

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 95.5 points

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  7/14/2020 - Tony Ling Likes this wine: 95 Points

  PNP into Zalto Burgundy glass (“Fruit” day): Deep copper with still a relatively bright watery rim, fine deposits. To me this looks like good colours of a wine at this age. No more petillance in glass but some fine mousse formed along the bottle level upon opening.
  
  The definition of ethereal here - with salt caramelised stone fruits like apricots that is still quite fleshy, toffee, savoury notes, dried florals and spices. No detectable VA on nose.
  
  On palate this is fully integrated with all the nice aromas detected consistently with nose, and detectable VA but enveloped by the superbly rich fruit flavours. Needless to say this has the signature broad and expansive mouth-feel, highly energetic mid palate, and great length to the finish.
  
  What’s amazing is that the nose is still slowly developing in glass and in between pours here, with a little more straw/hay like malty notes about 1/5 into the bottle.
  
  Holy cow this is quite an experience... Reminds of the top aged Vin Jaune but with an extra layer of lace and elegance. 95-96 points.
  
  1 hour upon opening, 3/4 left: More fresh bread and biscuit-like notes emerged. Forms a perfect pairing with steamed Humpback grouper.
  
  2 hours upon opening, a little more than 1/2 left: Detailed tertiary fruits like preserved apricots really stood out in this round. Acidity that is lip smacking and is mouth coating. Amazing “freshness” inspired by the amount of fruits on nose and palate for such a vintage. Wow.
  
  3 hours upon opening, 1/3 left: Peaking in my view now with very good grip of flavours per above, some VAs started to emerge and those who own a bottle has no reason to hold.
  
  4 hours upon opening, 1/5 left: Still a few more emerging notes like cinnamon and mandarin peels here.

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  1/8/2020 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 100 Points

  This bottle was opened following an impeccable duo of Cheval Blanc 82 & 83. The decision to open the Krug after the reds was made as we thought it might show some madereized notes and possibly needed cheese. We were entirely wrong. The bottles was so clean. No marderized or funny notes whatsoever. Nothing needed to blow off. Immediately the nose was perfect - textbook rich nutty and salty toffee. You could just sit there and smell it all day. But wait - the palate - oh the palate - rich but also this surprising strong acidity making sure this was never going heavy or vulgar, in fact invigorating. The finish was off the charts. Bathroom break and sip of water couldn't rid the palate of what felt like a blanket of alien silk laying on my palate making me feel cosier than I had ever felt. Perfection and so privileged to taste this thanks to A for his incredible generosity. And we were lucky of course as a bottle in that shape is highly unlikely. This particular bottle would have still been fresh in 20 years (subject to cork) and was easily a one hundred year champagne. At just over 50 years it was just PERFECT! Oh my, will be very difficult to come close leave alone match or best this in 2020.

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  9/13/2017 - tinybubbles wrote: 91 Points

  Fading and thin, this bottle had slight off notes on the side palate which detracted. 91-

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