Krug, Grande Cuvee Edition 166 Vintage:N.V. tobacco and brambly flavors

tobacco and brambly flavors

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

pure and focused medium weight plus flavors remain dense

A tile and terracotta finish

Krug, Grande Cuvee Edition 166 Vintage:N.V. tobacco and brambly flavors45% 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