Krug Champagne is a house of Champagne located in Reims, in the North-Eastern part of France, and has been around for 160 years. This makes of Krug, one of the youngest house of Champagne, considering that all champagne houses in France have been around for several hundreds of years. This house of Champagne has been created in 1843 by Johann-Joseph Krug, originally from Mayence, Germany. Today, it belongs to the luxury group LVMH (Louis Vuitton, Moet, Hennessy), and is managed by Remi Krug, representing the fifth generation of his family in the company.

The house owns 50 acres vineyard in the north-eastern part of France, in Ay, Le Mesnil, and Trepail. Despite the fact that it is now owned by LVMH, Krug runs with a big autonomy, which plays a big role in maintaining the house’s reputation and consistent style.

The particularity of the Krug’s house is that they consider themselves part of a long-standing prestigious group. Their wine making technique is to put their wine in 205 liters tanks made of  oak from the forest of Argonne, in the same region than Krug’s vineyards. Their tank’s average age is 35 years old, and they are restored each year by Krug’s coopers, from one year to another. The person who’s responsible of the Krug’s wine cellar confirms that the longevity and the reputation of their champagne wines has everything to do with the fact that these sparkling wines have to stay in these very special oak tanks.

Anothe point that makes Krug’s champagnes exceptionnal is the fact that they are on th market only when the company considers that the wines are at maturity. This is why, in 2005, Krug put on the market the vintage year of 1990. For some other champagnes, Krug keeps older vintage years even longer, jsut like the vintage year 1981 that was put on the market in 2006 with less than 2000 bottles. The name of this vintage year was “Krug Collection”.