WINE ENTHUSIAST 99 POINTS - "This always-memorable single-vineyard Champagne is dominated by rich Pinot Noir. The vineyard, a steep slope facing the Marne river, has given an intense, concentrated wine that has aged so well. Touches of toast are equaled by the rich fruit and acidity. Drink this great wine now." — Roger Voss
98 POINTS TYSON STELZER (THE CHAMPAGNE GUIDE) -"(71% Pinot Noir, 29% Chardonnay; 64% vinified in oak barrels; no malolactic fermentation; disgorged March 2023; 4.5g/L dosage; 19,984 bottles; cork). The rumbling complexity and inimitable magnitude that is Clos des Goisses finds captivating expression in the tension of 2014, the cut of malic acidity and the saline chalk minerality of these impoverished soils. A backdrop of grilled pineapple and fruit mince spice nuanced with the subtle vanilla of barrel fermentation lays out an expansive landscape of incredible depth and grand intrigue. The most coiled and enduring Clos des Goisses since 2008, and the finest, too. (Edition VII; 2024)"
96 POINTS JOHN GILMAN (VIEW FROM THE CELLAR) "The 2014 vintage of Philipponnat’s famed “Clos des Goisses” is composed this year from a blend of seventy-one percent Pinot Noir and twenty-nine percent Chardonnay. The wine was disgorged in March of 2023, after eight years aging sur latte and finished with a dosage of 4.5 grams per liter. It offers up a beautifully refined and youthfully complex bouquet of white peach, apple, gentle smokiness, a superb base of chalky soil tones, fresh-baked bread, just a whisper of oak and a lovely topnote of dried flowers. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and precise, with a superb core of fruit, excellent mineral drive and grip, very elegant mousse and a long, pure and superbly complex finish. The cool vintage characteristics of 2014 are beautifully synthesized with the warm microclimate of Clos des Goisses and this is clearly destined to be one of the great recent vintages of this iconic wine. It starts out life just a touch understated in comparison to recent vintages such as 2012, but this wine has future greatness written in its stars! It is already delicious, but it has more secrets to reveal if given extended bottle aging. 2023-2075. (Jul/Aug 2023)"
98 POINTS TYSON STELZER (THE CHAMPAGNE GUIDE) -"(71% Pinot Noir, 29% Chardonnay; 64% vinified in oak barrels; no malolactic fermentation; disgorged March 2023; 4.5g/L dosage; 19,984 bottles; cork). The rumbling complexity and inimitable magnitude that is Clos des Goisses finds captivating expression in the tension of 2014, the cut of malic acidity and the saline chalk minerality of these impoverished soils. A backdrop of grilled pineapple and fruit mince spice nuanced with the subtle vanilla of barrel fermentation lays out an expansive landscape of incredible depth and grand intrigue. The most coiled and enduring Clos des Goisses since 2008, and the finest, too. (Edition VII; 2024)"
96 POINTS JOHN GILMAN (VIEW FROM THE CELLAR) "The 2014 vintage of Philipponnat’s famed “Clos des Goisses” is composed this year from a blend of seventy-one percent Pinot Noir and twenty-nine percent Chardonnay. The wine was disgorged in March of 2023, after eight years aging sur latte and finished with a dosage of 4.5 grams per liter. It offers up a beautifully refined and youthfully complex bouquet of white peach, apple, gentle smokiness, a superb base of chalky soil tones, fresh-baked bread, just a whisper of oak and a lovely topnote of dried flowers. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and precise, with a superb core of fruit, excellent mineral drive and grip, very elegant mousse and a long, pure and superbly complex finish. The cool vintage characteristics of 2014 are beautifully synthesized with the warm microclimate of Clos des Goisses and this is clearly destined to be one of the great recent vintages of this iconic wine. It starts out life just a touch understated in comparison to recent vintages such as 2012, but this wine has future greatness written in its stars! It is already delicious, but it has more secrets to reveal if given extended bottle aging. 2023-2075. (Jul/Aug 2023)"
