Maison 93 of 100 · Spirits & Gastronomy
Krug
The reading
Joseph Krug’s idea that champagne could be blended like a score. Clos du Mesnil is the single-vineyard cathedral. Smaller than Dom, more obsessive, priced accordingly.
The house
- Origin
- France
- Founded
- 1843
- Atelier
- Spirits & Gastronomy
- Ownership
- LVMH
- Signature
- Grande Cuvée / Clos du Mesnil
- Register note
- Grande Cuvée as symphony This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Where it sits in this register
LVMH holds twenty-one of the hundred, this one among them: Louis Vuitton, Dior, Celine, Fendi, Loewe, Givenchy, and fourteen more. France puts twenty-six maisons into this register, the largest national group, and this is one of them. Spirits & Gastronomy holds nine houses here, and this is the 2nd of them. It is the 17th-oldest house in the register. By rank it falls in the register's fourth quarter. Eight of the France maisons here are filed under Spirits & Gastronomy: Dom Pérignon, Hennessy, Louis XIII, Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, two more and this one.