The Legend Begins In the year 1843, within the historic city of Reims, a visionary named Joseph Krug founded a champagne house that would redefine the essence of luxury in sparkling wine. Born Johann-Joseph Krug in 1800, the son of a butcher in Mainz on the Rhine, he had dispensed with his first name and left his hometown in 1824. By 1834 he was in Paris, and soon joined Champagne Jacquesson in Châlons-sur-Marne, where he spent eight years learning about composition and taste. In 1841 he married Emma-Anne Jaunay, the daughter of a French hotelier based in London. The following [...]