Description
From the precipitous, south-facing slopes above Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Clos des Goisses is one of Champagne’s most singular sites. The 2013 vintage, shaped by a long, cool growing season, delivers striking precision and tension. A blend dominated by Pinot Noir with Chardonnay adding lift, this release is vinified in part in oak and bottled with modest dosage to preserve its sculpted frame.
In The Wine Advocate, William Kelley writes:
98 Points – Surpassing even the 2012 and 2008, Philipponnat’s 2013 Extra-Brut Clos des Goisses looks to be the finest vintage of this cuvée in several decades, at least on first acquaintance. Deriving from only the six core parcels out of the 13 that make up the Clos des Goisses, it’s a striking wine, evoking aromas of crisp yellow orchard fruit, Anjou pear, clear honey, bee pollen, stone fruit and iodine. Full-bodied, layered and vinous, its textural attack segues into a deep, concentrated and tightly wound mid-palate that’s girdled by racy acids and chalky structure, before concluding with a long, saline finish. Why is it quite so good? It would appear that 2013 was the perfect storm: an early-ripening terroir in a cool, late vintage; moderately yielding Burgundian selections of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay that attained full maturity; and a willingness to make a strict selection have all come together to deliver a profound Clos des Goisses.
This is a vinous, ageworthy Champagne built for the cellar.
High level drinking window: 2025-2045+.
