NV Gosset Brut Grand Blanc de Blancs
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The NV Champagne Grand Blanc de Blancs Brut has a pale silver to yellow color and reveals notes of mint, white grapefruit, citrus blossoms, pastry dough, and fresh pear. Medium-bodied, it boasts an elegant and refined mousse, complemented by a refreshing spine of acidity and a mouthwatering, graceful finish. It's showing very well on release and should have another 8-10 years of prime drinking ahead of it.
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Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
Jancis Robinson MW
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A medium straw color, the NV Champagne Grand Blanc De Blancs Brut offers up aromas of lemon balm, white flowers, savory saline, and sweet bread dough. Medium-bodied and lively, with a pillowy mousse, a chalky texture, and a clean, powdery finish, it’s going to show its best over the next 10 years.
Launched in 2011 and based on the 2018 vintage, the bright pale yellow NV Champagne Grand Blanc De Blancs Brut needs a second on opening for its reductive note to blow off, but it quickly does to reveal pure aromatics of fresh pear, lemon sherbet, and wet stone. Medium-bodied, it has a graceful weightlessness on the palate, with an airy lightness that floats across the palate and a linear touch that’s very pretty. It reveals a delicate and fresh, savory mineral lift. This will take time to show at its best. Drink 2025-2035. The oldest wine house in Champagne, established by Pierre Gosset in 1584 in Ay, Gosset was purchased by Reynaud-Cointreau in 1993. Today the chef de cave is Odilon de Varine, formerly of Deutz and Henriot, and the philosophy is to adapt to each year and not to get stuck in the past. Each of the growers’ plots are fermented separately and malolactic fermentation is entirely blocked, working with the lees to create roundness in the wines instead. The house has gradually shifted from being predominantly a Pinot Noir house to that of Chardonnay. Total annual production is approximately 1 million bottles, although they have the capacity to produce 1.5 million. They hold a considerable stock of reserve wine going back 60 years, alleviating the pressures to put out more quantity. This year marks the first release ever for the Celebris Blanc de Blancs.
A blend from 15 different vintages of the Côte des Blancs and Côte des Noirs. No oak and at least three years on lees. Clear glass is traditional so the bottles are sold in boxes to protect against lightstrike . Greenish deep straw colour. Quite a rich nose. And much more formulaic than the Leclerc Briant Réserve Brut based on 2017 tasted immediately before this. Tight, tense, emphatic and correct even if not exactly distinctive and inspiring. (JR)