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Two new releases from Champagne Gosset

16 October 2017

This month we have received Champagne Gosset’s new (and very limited) Grand Blanc de Noirs Extra Brut NV and the new cuvee of Grand Blanc de Blancs NV now packaged in a clear antique bottle.

Champagne Gosset has released the first Blanc de Noirs in the house’s history. Initially created as an experiment, Grand Blanc de Noirs Extra Brut NV is based on the 2007 vintage was created by Chef de Cave Odilon de Varine’s using some of his favourite crus. The blend includes the Grand Crus of Ambonnay, Aÿ, Verzy and Premier Crus of Chigny les Roses, Tauxières, Avenay and aged for nine years on lees before disgorgement and has 5 g/l residual sugar. Just 10,000 bottles were produced and an allocation of these has been secured for the UK market.

It is a wine of extraordinary depth which becomes more and more expressive with time in the glass. It combines the fruity structure of Pinot Noir with a surprising freshness, minerality and salinity that lift and give added complexity to the wine.

Neil Beckett Editor of World of Fine Wine was the first to taste it, he said

“From darkness, light! From Ambonnay, Aÿ, and other distinguished Pinot Noir terroirs, Gosset’s brilliant chef de caves Odilon de Varine has crafted and nurtured to perfection a Blanc de Noirs where apparently contradictory qualities become completely complementary: appetizingly dry but deliciously moreish, with exhilarating finesse, it is at once aérien et vineux, beguiling and bracing, complex and pure, generous and graceful, subtle and sumptuous. A great wine, and a hugely worthwhile addition to an already excellent range.”

Gosset’s second new release is the new cuvee of their Grand Blanc de Blancs Brut NV which has been re-packaged in a new clear bottle that pays homage to Suzanne Gosset. Suzanne led the house in the 1950s and was the first in Champagne to use the clear bottle.

The new cuvee is based on predominantly 2013 vintage and is composed of a variety of crus including the Grand Crus of Mesnil, Oger, Avize, Cramant  Premier Crus  of Villers-Marmery, Trepail, Vertus, Cuis (Premier Crus), Ambonnay, Bouzy (Grand Cru when Pinot Noir and very important to the Gosset story). The wine was aged on lees for three and a half years before disgorgement and has a residual sugar of 7 g/l.

Chef de Cave Odilon de Varine commented the new bottle gives the Grand Blanc de Blancs a unique identity in the range and emphasise the purity and minerality of the wine contained within.

Both of these wines are now in stock in UK stocks. For more information contact your account manager or call 020 7409 7276.