Krug, Grande Cuvee Edition 166 other_regions_italy more in line with how

more in line with how I thought it would turn out from barrel than when I first tasted it from bottle last year

The wine is clearly ready for prime time drinking

expressive black fruit preserves

There is both fine punch and volume to the utterly delicious and lightly mineral-inflected flavors that display traces of warmth and rusticity on the otherwise solidly persistent and complex finish

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Krug, Grande Cuvee Edition 166 other_regions_italy more in line with how45% 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