Krug, Grande Cuvee Edition 166 Vintage:N.V. Given how precocious it seems

Given how precocious it seems just nowit certainly won't make your mouth turn immediately to cotton and your tongue seize upthe fruit is so good that some will dare to drink it now

There is good richness and an abundance of dry extract to the strikingly refined flavors that possess a gorgeous mouthfeel while delivering flat out superb length on the balanced finale

5% in a warm year like 2019

airy and ultra pure nose of mineral-suffused red pinot fruit that is in perfect keeping with the finely detailed

Krug, Grande Cuvee Edition 166 Vintage:N.V. Given how precocious it seems45% 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