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    525
  • Producer ranking ?

    3
  • Decanting time

    20min
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

    poulard with morel mushrooms

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The Story

Belonging exclusively to Philipponnat, the Clos des Goisses is an exceptional vineyard of 5,5 Ha enclosed by walls, with an impressive gradient of 30 to 45°, facing full south, where Philipponnat produces the most powerful of Champagne wines. Always vintaged, very lightly dosed, this uncommon wine is characterized by incredible length and body, in which Pinot Noir characteristics predominate. This fabulous wine for great occasions, extraordina...

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Wine Information

Clos des Goisses is divided into 14 plots, of which only the four best of 2011 were included in this blend.

For the first time composed solely of Pinot Noir, due to the uprooting of Chardonnay vines in certain plots just before 2011, and the atypical and exceptionally floral aromatic profile of the vintage’s Pinot Noirs.

Vinification

Clos des Goisses is a walled vineyard of 5.8 hectares, one of the few “clos” of the region. It is not ...

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Vintage 2012

2012 was deemed one of the best vintages the Champagne region has ever experienced. “The quality and the intensity are definitely there to make an outstanding vintage,” Dom Perignon chef de cave Richard Geoffroy told Decanter. The base wines show a lovely richness as well as the acidity needed to make outstanding and long-lived Champagnes. Yields are very low, in some places half of the allowed production.

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Launched 21 September 2021. Export director Thomas Jorez describes this as a wonderful vintage, very concentrated, which suits the style of Clos des Goisses: 'we don't make light and shy'. After a cold winter, yields were reduced by severe frost – not as severe in the Clos as in other Philipponnat vineyards because of the location – and then cold weather at flowering that led to coulure. They produced just 13,000 bottles from 5.83 ha. The fruit was ripe because the crop was so small – riper and with higher alcohol potential than in 2003. Harvested at 11.5% potential alcohol but with balancing acidity. pH 3.08, TA 7.75 g/l (cf 5 g/l in 2003 and > 9 g/l in 1996). More Chardonnay than usual in 2012: 61% Pinot Noir, 39% Chardonnay. 62% of the base wine is barrel fermented (barrels from new to eight years old). Dosage the same every year – 4.5 g/l – so that the differences are as much as possible to do with the vintage. Disgorged late March 2021. According to Charles Philipponnat, this is one of his best vintages this century. Starting this year, a small amount of Clos des Goisses will be sold on the Bordeaux Place – to try to reach more markets even if the volumes are small, and to get the wine to those who really appreciate it. The négociants on the Place will not be allowed to sell to established markets with existing importers such as the UK.


This has the lovely ripe Clos des Goisses style in full: aromas of apricot, honey and toast. It is rich and concentrated and yet still has excellent freshness. Jorez points to an aroma of raspberry seed, which is spot on. I pick up raspberry sorbet and a hint of ginger as it opens in the glass. It is intense and fresh in the mouth, gently toasty.  Rounded, deep and long with a lovely fruit sweetness. Creamy, powerful and yet seems gentle next to the late disgorged 1996 LV. This was a great accompaniment to truffle flatbread on the evening I tasted it. Still so young and with great ageing potential. (JH)

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Origin

Mareuil-sur-Ay, Champagne

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Historically the first clos and first terroir to be vinified and blended separately, Clos des Goisses is unique and instantly recognisable for its extremely steep slope. It is not only the oldest walled vineyard in the Champagne region, but also the steepest. In fact, its slope reaches 45°, hence the origin of its name: in the local dialect, «Gois» means a very steep slope. This exceptional terroir with chalky soil is ideally situated facing due South, on the best hillside in Mareuil-sur-Ay.

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