Champagne Krug, Grande Cuvée 171ème Édition NV7% Chardonnay 18% Pinot Meunier 45% Pinot Noir Pinot Nero Two years on from its disgorgement, this 2015 based edition has settled beautifully, showing all the sunniness of the base year with its mandarin and apricot plushness, surprisingly smooth and silky up front before settling into its broad, inviting range of praline, cappuccino and bitter almond aromatics and subtle fruit skin chewiness. It's a punchy, fulsome edition thanks to the base year's

99 Lisa Perrotti-Brown

95+ William Kelley

very elegant

98-100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW

The 2022 Gevrey-Chambertin Symphonie marries intense dark fruit with strong mineral undertones

closed down further as you would expect at this point

Aromas of white blossom and honeysuckle

Form and finesse

“The challenge was not to overdo extraction

Power but purity

***** (5 stars) 94-97 Jasper Morris MW

The 2022 Pernand-Vergelesses Ile de Vergelesses 1er Cru came directly from a barrel that had not been racked