Private Tour Inside KRUG Champagne with President Manuel Reman

Krug doesn’t open its doors to the public. There’s no tour you can book, no ticket you can buy. You need an invitation and I got one.

Manuel Reman, the youngest President in Krug’s 180-year history, gave me a private day inside one of the most secretive and celebrated Champagne houses in the world. We went floor by floor, cellar by cellar, into rooms most collectors will never see and he answered every question I had.

What actually goes into a bottle of Krug. Why there’s no recipe. How a single Grande Cuvée is blended from up to 195 different wines going back over fifteen years. What the edition number on the bottle actually means. Why one man riddles 30,000 bottles a day entirely by hand. What riddling even is and why it matters. How the reserve wine library jumped from 50 to 150 wines and why that changed everything. What disgorgement actually does to a bottle of Champagne. The story of Clos du Mesnil, the walled single vineyard the house discovered completely by accident. The bottles that have been locked in the cellar since 1915 and will never be sold. And the Clos d’Ambonnay Rosé, made once, in 2008, only 250 bottles exist on earth, and it will never be made again.

Then we sat down and opened the 2013 Vintage and the 173rd Edition of the Grande Cuvée.

If you love Champagne, collect fine wine, or just want to get inside a house this closed to the outside world, this one is for you.

Chapters:
00:00 The Bottle That Started It All
01:41 Inside the House of Krug
03:20 What the Edition Number Really Means
06:28 One Bottle, Up to 195 Wines
09:56 How the Reserve Library Changed Everything
20:00 How Clos du Mesnil Was Discovered
23:00 What Riddling Actually Is
29:00 The Man Who Riddles
30,000 Bottles a Day by Hand
36:00 The Cellar That Survived Three Wars
44:00 The Bottles Hidden Since 1915
48:00 Tasting the 2013 Vintage
52:00 The Rarest Krug Ever Made

Wines tasted: Krug Grande Cuvée 173rd Edition, Krug Vintage 2013 (also opened: Krug Grande Cuvée 169th Edition)

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