【パーカーポイント 98+点】
クリュッグ クロ デュ メニル 2002 木箱入り クロ ド メニル Krug Clos du Mesnil フランス シャンパン シャンパーニュ

石垣に囲まれたブドウ畑でシャルドネの魅力を最大限に引き出した別格のシャンパーニュ

シャンパーニュでクロの畑の中で最も有名な「クリュッグ・クロ・デュ・メニル」。多くのクリュッギストがいる中でも、ロマネ・コンティとほぼ同じ面積の畑から生まれるクロ・デュ・メニルは特別な存在です。メニル・シュール・オジェ村の中心に位置する石垣に囲まれたブドウ畑でシャルドネの魅力を最大限に引き出した別格のシャンパーニュです。

生産者

クリュッグ
Krug

ワイン名

クロ デュ メニル
Clos du Mesnil

ヴィンテージ

2002

容量

750ml

解説

パーカーポイント: 98+点
予想される飲み頃：2018 - 2050

Krug's beautifully citrus colored 2002 Blanc de Blancs Brut Clos du Mesnil (ID 415068 - disgorged IV/2015) shows a deep, complex, very clear and precise if not etherial bouquet with citrus aromas intertwined with chalk and noble brioche notes in the background. Pure, profound and vibrantly fresh on the palate, this is a straight, athletic, very intense and expressive yet highly elegant and finessed Clos du Mesnil with a unique fresh fruit character! The 2002 reveals a great mineral structure and chalky texture on the palate. The highly complex, energetic finish reveals bracing freshness and vitality as well as the charm and creaminess from the vinification in barrels and possibly the dosage wine that seems to boost the Krug style. While terroir wine is the result of hands-off winemaking, Krug's Clos du Mesnil is perhaps a very particular Krug Champagne - it has great quality, style and complexity that is the result of the winemaking and the addition of the dosage wine. How the Clos du Mesnil would taste if farmed biodynamically, picked later and dosed with nothing but itself is a pointless question, but it hasn't left my mind since I tasted the paradoxical 2002, which is terribly fresh on one hand and also has this unique Krug reserve style. Notabene: This doesn't include the hypothesis that the wine could be any better. It would just be different and surely less "Krug," which is not what we really want, do we? Tasted April 2018.
(237, The Wine Advocate, 30th Jun 2018)