2007 Celebris, Champagne Gosset
The pinnacle of Champagne Gosset's wine range and celebration of their best wines. Celebris is handcrafted in the estate's own distinctive winemaking style, with all the elegance, sophistication and underlying power that makes it ideal for long ageing. It is, unsurprisingly, an extremely rare cuvée, with just three to four thousand bottles made of each edition. In the last 20 years only seven editions have been released. Consider it as you would a fine white Burgundy by pairing it with sea foods like scallops and turbot or perhaps polenta with wild mushrooms and cheese.
"The 2007 Celebris Extra Brut is the latest rendition of this cuvée, which cellar master Odilon de Varine describes as "not a vintage Gosset but a Gosset vintage"meaning that it's produced only in years adapted to the house's powerful but austere style. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of lemon oil, marzipan, warm biscuits and wet stones, it's full-bodied, with a deep and concentrated core of ripe but racy fruit, a tangy spine of acidity and an elegant pinpoint mouse, displaying terrific purity and precision." 95 points, Wine Advocate