Krug, Grande Cuvee Edition 166 Vintage:N.V. pure and focused medium weight

pure and focused medium weight plus flavors remain dense

character-filled effort made from Rostaings Languedoc-Roussillon vineyards

offering sappy cherry and black currant flavors that become more lively and spicy with air

crushed granite and licorice at the back

Krug, Grande Cuvee Edition 166 Vintage:N.V. pure and focused medium weight45% Pinot Noir, 39% Chardonnay, 16% Meunier, blended from 140 wines dating from 1996 to 2010, including 42% reserves. Krug leads off where most other Champagne houses end, and its entry wine is every bit a prestige cuve. It smells and tastes like no other wine, a monumental paradox of tense freshness, profound maturity and inimitable complexity. Decadently rich, extravagantly complex and thunderingly expansive, Grande Cuve is a vinous Champagne of