Krug, Grande Cuvee Edition 166 other_regions_australia 5-hectare plot of 65+-year-old vines

5-hectare plot of 65+-year-old vines at the top of the Paje vineyard

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it is a serious wine with a Bordeaux-like personality

Krug, Grande Cuvee Edition 166 other_regions_australia 5-hectare plot of 65+-year-old vines45% 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