dark currant and lovely spice wisps
A safe bet if not too expensive
which is the traditional name for Cabernet Franc in this area
I was visiting them with a group of Portuguese wine producers a decade ago
12 ha monopole with vines averaging 35 years of age and aged in 50% new wood)
Krug, Grande Cuvee Edition 166 other_regions dark currant and lovely spice45% 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