Every few years Burgundy produces a small house that makes the region feel young again. Maison Valentin Krug is one of ours: a tiny operation working Pinot Noir with a light hand, minimal additions, and a sense of style that starts with the names on the labels. Vol de Nuit. Belle de Jour. Marcelle. Cuvées named like a film festival, and wines with the same kind of atmosphere.
The style is Burgundy stripped of its armor. Whole bunches and gentle handling give the Pinots lift and perfume, the fruit stays bright and a little wild, and the tannins are more suggestion than structure. These are bottles for drinking, not cellaring endlessly: pure, energetic reds that show how much charm this region has when nobody is trying too hard. Serve them just cool and they disappear.
Like most of the small houses we chase, quantities are minuscule. Our last allocation sold through, and if the bottles below show sold out, that is simply the rhythm of this producer. Join the newsletter to hear when the next vintage arrives, it rarely survives the first email. While you wait, the rest of our Burgundy collection runs deep, and if low intervention winemaking is new ground, start with our natural wine guide.
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About the Producer Maison Valentin Krug is the small-producer project of Valentin Krug, a California-born, Dijon-raised vigneron who came to wine through vine work and sommelier experience before completing his formal studies in Beaune in 2013. His first vintage was...
PRODUCT TYPE: Wine
About the Producer Maison Valentin Krug is the small-producer project of Valentin Krug, a California-born, Dijon-raised vigneron who came to wine through vine work and sommelier experience before completing his formal studies in Beaune in 2013. His first vintage was...
PRODUCT TYPE: Wine
About the Producer Maison Valentin Krug is the small-producer project of Valentin Krug, a California-born, Dijon-raised vigneron who came to wine through vine work and sommelier experience before completing his formal studies in Beaune in 2013. His first vintage was...
Every few years Burgundy produces a small house that makes the region feel young again. Maison Valentin Krug is one of ours: a tiny operation working Pinot Noir with a light hand, minimal additions, and a sense of style that starts with the names on the labels. Vol de Nuit. Belle de Jour. Marcelle. Cuvées named like a film festival, and wines with the same kind of atmosphere.
The style is Burgundy stripped of its armor. Whole bunches and gentle handling give the Pinots lift and perfume, the fruit stays bright and a little wild, and the tannins are more suggestion than structure. These are bottles for drinking, not cellaring endlessly: pure, energetic reds that show how much charm this region has when nobody is trying too hard. Serve them just cool and they disappear.
Like most of the small houses we chase, quantities are minuscule. Our last allocation sold through, and if the bottles below show sold out, that is simply the rhythm of this producer. Join the newsletter to hear when the next vintage arrives, it rarely survives the first email. While you wait, the rest of our Burgundy collection runs deep, and if low intervention winemaking is new ground, start with our natural wine guide.
