Krug, 1979 Red Wine

Description

Condition

Excellent

Reviews

98 points Vinous
Nineteen seventy-nine is one of the all-time great vintages for Krug. Among other things, it marks the first release of Krug’s Clos du Mesnil. The 1979 Vintage, tasted from magnum, is utterly magnificent and nearly as thrilling as the Mesnil. Miraculously fresh for a wine of its age, the 1979 pulses with remarkable energy and tension, with the Chardonnay coming through nicely in the wine’s overall brightness. Lemon oil, white flowers, almonds, crushed rocks and dried herbs are some of the signatures. Krug’s 1979 is testament to the towering stature of this iconic Champagne vintage. (AG) (11/2015)

93 points John Gilman
View From the Cellar, John Gilman Sep/Oct 2017, Issue #71, The Bi-Annual Champagne Report Part Two- October 2017 (9/1/2017) I cannot even recall the last time I tasted the 1979 vintage bottling from Krug, but this wine showed beautifully as the opener for one of the Bruno Giacosa dinners that form the basis for the article on older Piemonte wines coming in the next issue. This is the original release and the wine is drinking beautifully today, offering up a pure, vibrant and fully mature bouquet of peach, walnuts, a glorious base of soil tones, caraway seed and pain grillé. On the palate the wine is pure, crisp and full-bodied, with a very fine core of fruit, excellent complexity and grip, delicate mousse and a very, very long, poised and supremely elegant finish. I have had the pleasure to drink the 1976, 1981 and 1982 Krug a few times over the last couple of years, but this was the first bottle of the 1979 that I have seen in a very, very long time and I was quite impressed with how it is drinking today. (9/2017)