LCBO Online Exclusive : Champagne Gosset Celebris 2007
Founded in Aÿ in 1584 by Pierre Gosset, Champagne Gosset is the oldest wine house in Champagne. For 17 generations Gosset was owned by the founding family. In 1993, the company was sold to another legendary French wine family, the Cointreau family from Charente, owners of Frappin Cognac. The long history and high quality of the house earned Gosset the French government award of Living Heritage Company in 2013, making it one of only two such Champagne Houses to be recognized in this way.
Across all their wines, their house style is consistently linear, focused and precise. They do not use oak, nor employ malolactic fermentation, ensuring a structure built on purity of fruit, minerality, and long aging. Gosset has pioneered age-dated champagnes, much like whisky producers.
We are thrilled to have the Champagne Gosset Celebris 2007 released as an LCBO Online Exclusive. You can purchase it here.
Champagne Gosset Celebris 2007
This special Cuvée, created in 1993, is the culmination of Gosset style. This blend of 57% Chardonnay, 43% Pinot Noir comes from 10 villages across the Côte des Blancs, Montagne de Reims, and Vallée de la Marne. After a stainless ferment, sans MLF, it spent 10 years on lees before disgorgement, with 8.6 g/L.
"The 2007 Celebris Extra Brut is the latest rendition of this cuvée, which cellar master Odilon de Varine describes as "not a vintage Gosset but a Gosset vintage"—meaning that it's produced only in years adapted to the house's powerful but austere style. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of lemon oil, marzipan, warm biscuits and wet stones, it's full-bodied, with a deep and concentrated core of ripe but racy fruit, a tangy spine of acidity and an elegant pinpoint mouse, displaying terrific purity and precision.
This was a wonderful tasting with Gosset's cellar master Odilon de Varine, who presides over a remarkably consistent range of powerful but elegantly austere Champagnes that emphasize, as he puts it, the region's "mineral side." No doubt the systematic prevention of malolactic fermentation plays an important role in the house's tightly wound, incisive style. The philosophy here is that Champagne acquires complexity from evolution in bottle on the lees, not in barrel or tank, nor from the addition of elevated percentages of reserve wines. The release date of Gosset's cuvées is determined by tasting—which is why both the 2008 and 2010 Grand Millésime will be preceded by the release of the 2012 rendition.". 95 points, William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
Read more about Champagne Gosset here.
Appellation : AOC Champagne
Region: Champagne, France
Grape(s) : Chardonnay, Pinot Noir
Price : $204.95 for 750mL
LCBO : 344952
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