Krug Grand Cuveé 166th NV 1.5L CARIGNAN or what many are now

or what many are now calling an "orange" wine

damp soil and dried Provence herbs

The wine is a pure

Made from a base of Cortese (from Stefano Belloti of Cascina Ullivi) and Moscato (grown by the Bera family) and steeped in herbs and citrus

and Alexandra Macari moved to the North Fork with their four children to begin planting vines

Krug Grand Cuveé 166th NV 1.5L CARIGNAN or what many are nowThe bottle of the '166me Edition' Krug Grand Cuve that I reported on in the last issue of the newsletter had been delivered to my office on one of the hottest days of the summer. Consequently, though the wine showed very well indeed, I had a gnawing feeling that perhaps the scorching weather might have affected that bottle just a touch and I reached out to the folks at Krug to see if I could get another sample to report on for this article. I was glad