The legend begins In 1843, in Reims, Joseph Krug founded a champagne house built around a specific idea about quality. Born Johann-Joseph Krug in 1800, the son of a butcher in Mainz on the Rhine, he had dropped 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, and their son Paul was born the following year. After a year of negotiations, Krug [...]