Krug, Grande Cuvee Edition 165 Vintage:N.V.

Krug, Grande Cuvee Edition 165 Vintage:N.V.The NV Grande Cuve 165me dition is showing well, offering up a lovely bouquet of warm bread, honeycomb, peachy fruit, smoke and lemon oil. On the palate, the wine is medium to full bodied, layered and beautifully integrated, with excellent depth at the core, a fine mousse and a long, chalky finish. Built around the 2009 vintage, the 165me isn't as powerful or fleshy as the 167me dition, but if anything, it's even classier and more harmonious at this

As I have observed many times in these pages

This is very good for its level though I would observe that it’s definitely a creature of its vintage

it is impossible to resist

Tasted January 2016

it is fresh and elegant and from a cooler (more Atlantic) vintage with more rain than the average and a relatively late harvest between September 28th and October 12th

2000 cases produced

Relatively firm reduction renders the nose impossible to read at present

silky and fresh

Well-proportioned and built for the long haul

49 holding of 40+ year old vines)

textural but incisive

The 2003 is an unusually bold