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...Luke Powell Charing, Kent, UK...
...Letter in response to this article: Germans drink beer in a Maß or Krug, never a stein / From Luke Powell, Charing, Kent, UK...
...I even finished off the dregs of a bottle that had spent six weeks in my fridge. £89 Connaught Cellars Krug, Grande Cuvée 168ème édition NV Few who can afford Krug will need an introduction to it but the...
...If you offer me a glass of Krug, Cristal or Dom Pérignon at a party, I’ll be there like a ferret up a trouser leg....
...The vines on Gusbourne Estate in Kent were only just beginning to bear fruit....
...Krug. Cristal. More tantalising still is the small wooden box that workers gingerly pull out to show the Financial Times one November afternoon. It contains six bottles of 2002 red wine from France....
...In the 1980s, when Krug launched a rosé version of this most luxurious of champagnes, it was the palest of salmon pinks....
...The prices of these 1086s suggest they are aimed squarely at Cristal, Dom Pérignon and Krug, the most famous so-called prestige cuvées of Champagne, which sell for between £100 and £200 a bottle....
...Or Eric Rodez, an ex-cellar master at Krug, who also moonlights as the mayor of Ambonnay: “I may be crazy,” he grins. “But at least I am free!”...
...Chapel Down of Kent welcomes 60,000 visitors a year and has opened an outpost in King’s Cross, London, for a gin distillery, also with restaurant....
...In recent decades, the three French groups plus others such as luxury brand LVMH (owners of six houses including Krug and Ruinart), have consolidated France’s champagne production....
...Fakes are now one of the biggest problems for LVMH’s multitude of luxury brands – the likes of Louis Vuitton, Fendi and Dior, not to mention Moët & Chandon and Krug champagne and Hennessy cognac – and for...
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