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Fresh and fruity, opening on lemon meringue pie and Mirabelle plum, then ripe plum with honeyed, toasted notes. Rich and generous, with Pinot Noir depth, hawthorn and white flowers, bright citrus-driven acidity and an elegant, mineral finish.
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Close40–45% Pinot Noir, 30–35% Chardonnay, 20–24% Pinot Meunier
Food pairings: Perfect as an aperitif with gougères and cheese puff pastries, or at the table with pâté en croûte, roast chicken, poultry in a creamy sauce, and Comté or Parmesan.
Winemaking: Gosset's signature non-vintage. The wines do not go through malolactic fermentation, preserving the fruit's natural freshness, and reserve wines add depth to the blend. The wine is bottled at the end of the spring following the harvest and ages at least four years in the cellars. After disgorgement the bottles return to the cellar for at least six more months so the wine can absorb the dosage, which is set with precision, between 6 and 8 g/L. The lot number printed on the bottle shows the disgorgement date: the first digit is the year and the next two the week.
Vineyards and terroir: The blend draws on a wide palette of villages across Champagne, among them Aÿ, Ambonnay, Bouzy, Cumières, Villers-Marmery, Avize, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger and Vertus on the Côte des Blancs, and Bar-sur-Aube and Ville-sur-Arce in the Côte des Bar, mostly on chalk soils. The predominant Pinot Noir brings structure and depth, while the Chardonnay gives the wine its elegant, mineral finish.
Family and history: Gosset is the oldest wine house in Champagne. In 1584 Pierre Gosset, lord and alderman of Aÿ, set up a wine business, at first making still wines, mostly red, from his own vineyards. Sixteen generations in direct line carried on his work in Aÿ, and in 1760 Jean Gosset first used the antique-style bottle that is still the house emblem. At the end of 1993 Gosset joined the family-owned Renaud-Cointreau group, which has made it its mission to preserve the Gosset style, and in 2009 the house moved its production to a historic Épernay estate with 19th-century cellars. Odilon de Varine has been cellar master since 2006, carrying on the words of his predecessor Jean-Pierre Mareigner: "At Gosset, we produce a wine first and foremost, the bubbles only add to its beauty".
In the pictures: Vineyard slopes near Aÿ, where Pierre Gosset founded the house in 1584 (photo: Pline, 2012, CC BY-SA 3.0). Avenue Victor Hugo in Aÿ, with the vineyards rising behind the town (photo: October Ends, 2009, CC BY-SA 3.0).
