NV Grande Cuvée 165th Edition
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The NV Grande Cuvée 165ème Édition 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 165ème isn't as powerful or fleshy as the 167ème Édition, but if anything, it's even classier and more harmonious at this stage.
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Jancis Robinson MW
William Kelley, Wine Advocate
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Based on 2009. ID 416036. To be launched at the end of 2017 in the UK, US and France and embargoed until December 2017. This is the smallest, rarest batch ever for Grande Cuvée because of caution instilled by the economic crisis. In one year they will have three editions (163, 164 and 165) because 2008 and 2009 won’t be enough for one year’s sales! (They ensured that the 163rd edition will last longer.) Some of the 166th, made in much bigger quantity, is already being prepared for next year. Wines are from 2009 back to 1990. 127 wines from 12 different years. Very pale with a heady nose and some richness. Firm and flirtatious with a really solid, ripe undertow. More hedonistic than many Krugs. (JR)
About the producer
Krug is a remarkable Champagne House which only makes prestige cuvées. The wines – with their distinctive rich, complex, oxidative style – are some of the region’s best.