95 Points | International Wine Cellar , November 2012

(LD210008):  Light gold.  A heady, complex bouquet evokes orange peel, poached pear, rye bread, honey and toffee, with gingerbread and smoke nuances.  Deeply concentrated but energetic, offering intense, chewy orchard and citrus fruit flavors and suggestions of buttered toast, candied fig and anise.  The smoky quality comes back strong on the finish, which displays superb breadth, energy and persistence.  Showing plenty of early complexity for a vintage Krug but there's the requisite depth and power here to suggest that patience will be rewarded, or at the very least tolerated.

94 Points | Wine Spectator