In the glass
Aroma: ripe apple, candied ginger, mandarin peel, oyster shell, jasmine
Palate: toasty undercurrent, creamy mousse, honey, gentle spice, depth
Champagne's great single-clos wine from a steep south-facing walled vineyard: ripe apple, candied ginger and mandarin peel over oyster shell and jasmine, with a toasty undercurrent and depth.
What it pairs with
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Lobster
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Depth and oyster-shell minerality meet sweet shellfish. -
Roast poularde
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Toast and honey echo roasted poultry. -
Aged Comte
Candied-ginger spice meets the nutty cheese.
History
Philipponnat has owned Clos des Goisses, one of the steepest and warmest sites in Champagne, since 1935, bottling it as a single-vineyard vintage wine since 1935.
- 1935 — Philipponnat acquires the Clos des Goisses walled vineyard
Facts
- Producer
- Champagne Philipponnat
- Grapes
- Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Partial oak; single steep walled vineyard, very long lees ageing
- ABV
- 12.5%
- Price
- EUR 150 to 250 at retail
- Drinking window
- 12 to 35 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1935
Scores
- Vinous 95 (2013 vintage, reviewed 2023)