Krug, Grande Cuvée, Edition, 173RD
Toasty stone fruits on the nose with an abundance of peach and nectarine alongside smoky crushed flint aromas. More citrus led on the palate with lemon tart, orange peel, and chalky minerality. Delicate vanilla scented almond pastry and French toast coalesce on the gloriously long finish. This is still young and primal, but wonderfully structured and poised.
critic reviews
A complex bouquet of iodine, mandarin, warm biscuits, dried flowers, citrus oil and anise introduces the NV Grande Cuvee 163eme Edition, a wine that's built around the 2007 vintage and is beginning to display some very attractive evolution. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, layered and concentrated, with a ripe but racy spine of acidity, chalky structure and a long, penetrating finish.