Tasting Highlights: Vintage Champagne

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The '95 Krug Clos du Mesnil shows an incredible combination of lightness and intensity.

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When Mother Nature favors Champagne, good things happen

Bruce Sanderson
Posted: October 17, 2005

Blending across vintages is the preferred modus operandi in Champagne. It's a way for this northern region, where the weather is fickle, to hedge its bets. It also allows Champagne houses to maintain a consistent house style from year to year.

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Tasting Highlights: Vintage Champagne

When Mother Nature favors Champagne, good things happen

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Posted: October 17, 2005

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