Krug Clos du Mesnil 2008

Lucid and impossibly deep at once. White peach, crushed chalk, dried herbs and a flinty, almost iodine-edged quality that speaks directly to Le Mesnil's singular geology. Fine bubbles carry a razor-like acidity that pulls the wine taut without ever hardening it, there's a Burgundian purity here that lifts this well beyond standard Champagne territory. Liquid terroir in the truest sense. Destined to stand alongside the 1979, 1988 and 1996 as one of Clos du Mesnil's defining statements. Drink over the next several decades.